Martha H Swain

Biographic Data

ID1690409
NAMEMartha H Swain
GIVEN NAMESMartha H
FAMILY NAMESwain
SIGNATURESWAIN M H
AFFILIATIONSMississippi State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX1

  • Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917

    Martha H Swain, Stephen CresswellARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives

    Marlene Hunt Rikard, Martha H Swain et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who mothered the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. Some of the w…

  • Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South

    Judy Barrett Litoff, Dorothy S Shawhan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts

    Martha H SwainARTICLEJournal of American History2007

    Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Federal Writers' Project (fwp) of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration knows that the Massachusetts project was fraught with controversy for both its boldness and timidity in depicting the state's troubled history and diverse population. Now we have a splendid examination of that endeavor written by the author of a broader work, The wpa Guides: Mapping America (1999). Of the approximately one hundred…

  • Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History

    Darlene O'Dell, Janet L Coryell et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000

  • Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History

    Frances Mitchell Ross, Janet L Coryell et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly1999

    Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History. Edited by Janet L. Coryell, Martha H. Swain, Sandra G. Treadway, and E. H. Turner. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. Pp. 224. Editor's introduction, about the authors and editors, index. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper.) This volume explores realms of southern women's history that reach beyond the image of the Southern Lady and the behavioral standards traditionally …

  • The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn

    Martha H Swain, James C CobbARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal Advocate for Women

    Elna C Green, Martha H SwainARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal Advocate for Women

    Judith Sealander, Martha H SwainARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal Advocate for Women. By Martha H. Swain. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. xx, 275 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-87805-756-0.) Get access Judith Sealander Judith Sealander Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1268–1269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943-45

    Martha H Swain, Benedict S Alper et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943–45. By Benedict S. Alper. Ed. by Joan Wallach Scott. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxvi + 220 pp. $26.50, ISBN 0-252-01877-X.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 743–744, h…

  • Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia

    Martha H Swain, Gilbert C FiteARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly1992

  • Hattie and Huey: An Arkansas Tour

    Martha H Swain, Martha Swain et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1991

  • The Crash of 1929

    Martha H Swain, Muffie Meyer et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article The Crash of 1929. Prod. by Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde. Middlemarch Film, 1990. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) After the Crash. Prod. by Eric Neudel. Blackside Productions, 1990. 57 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…

  • The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945

    Martha H SwainARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933–1945. 20 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. $1,635. (Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1986.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1446–1447, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078418 Published: 01 March 1991

  • Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism

    Martha H Swain, Lois ScharfARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism. By Lois Scharf. (Boston: Twayne, 1987. x + 202 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $10.95.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 993, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901679 Published: 01 December 1988

  • Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics

    Martha H Swain, Susan WareARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics. By Susan Ware. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xix + 327 pp. $25.00.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 660–661, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887974 Published: 01 September 1988

  • Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South

    Mary Frederickson, Mary E Frederickson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1985

  • One-Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage

    Martha H Swain, Anne Firor Scott et al.ARTICLEThe History Teacher1984

  • Women, Work, and National Policy: The Kennedy-Johnson Years

    Martha H Swain, Patricia G ZelmanARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1983

  • Oscar W. Underwood: A Political Biography

    Martha H Swain, Evans C JohnsonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1981

  • The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938-1957

    Martha H Swain, George Norris GreenARTICLEJournal of American History1980

    Journal Article The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938–1957. By George Norris Green. (Westport: Greenwood, 1979. xiii + 306 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, essay on sources, and index. $22.50.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages 976–977, h…

  • Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years

    Arthur F Mcclure, Martha H SwainARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1979

  • Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years

    JOSEPH ANTHONY IMLER, Martha H SwainARTICLEJournal of American History1979Cited by: 3