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Jacqueline Jones (born 17 June 1948) is an American social historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history. [2] She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017, is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin , and is the past president of the American ...
Feb 25, 2022 · Born in 1948, Jacqueline Jones is the oldest of three children raised by happily married parents in the town of Christiana, Delaware. On the surface, theirs was a Norman Rockwellian middle-class white family living in a two-story, three-bedroom house with a big screened porch on the side and a Ford station wagon in the driveway that took the ...
In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunity for ...
May 8, 2024 · Jones was the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History at UT and now holds a professor emerita title in the College of Liberal Arts.
AHA 2022 Annual Meeting | January 7, 2022 Presidential Address: Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now Introduction: James H. Sweet, AHA president-elect, University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
In her book Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present, history professor Jacqueline Jones argues for the tension of black women's work for their families, communities and their work for whites.
May 8, 2024 · Big win for a Texas history buff! Jacqueline Jones, professor emerita at The University of Texas at Austin, snagged the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her latest deep-dive into the nation's past.
