Tales of Triumph

Abstract

This book is an important contribution to the historiography of women's history as well as to women in the historical profession in the United States. Thirty years after the founding of the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession (CCWHP) in 1969 (known as the Coordinating Committee of Women in History [CCWH] since 1995), twenty women who have been closely related to the organization trace interconnections among their private lives, political activities, and professional engagements. Editors Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri provide a short, but useful introduction to CCWH's intentions and achievements. Their aim in Voices of Women Historians is no less than to encourage women to enter the historical profession, oppose discrimination of women in the pro-fession, and promote research and instruction in women's history. Hostile forces were overcome gradually, and today the CCWH is an important national organization, able to offer prizes and support to graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars. While successfully advancing research in women's and gender history, the CCWH continues to address such present day problems as planned closures of feminist research centers, welfare reform, and affirmative action. Cooperation in many fields has supplanted the originally cold relationship to the American Historical Association (AHA), and historians of women have occupied--and still occupy--central offices in the AHA.