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Smart Women Write: Historians After the Dissertation
A group blog by women historians and academics about writing, teaching, public history, books, and life beyond the tenure track.
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- The Fort Negley thread connects a UNESCO nomination, an oral-history archive with descendants, and the fort’s 2019 designation.
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Posts range from dissertation and book-writing advice to teaching, self-care, and post-academic careers, with contributor names and dates visible in the archive. A Fort Negley sequence documents the nomination process and an oral-history project involving descendants of the fort’s builders and USCT defenders; the site says the fort received UNESCO Slave Route Project designation in May 2019.
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