Martha H Patterson

Biographic Data

ID794085
NAMEMartha H Patterson
GIVEN NAMESMartha H
FAMILY NAMEPatterson
SIGNATUREPATTERSON M H
AFFILIATIONSMcKendree University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • “Some Fresh Suggestions about the New Negro Crime”: Harper’s Weekly, January 23, 1904

    Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERThe New Negro2025

  • The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937

    Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis GatesBOOKThe New Negro2025

  • Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

    Martha H PattersonARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2023

  • The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930

    Martha H PattersonBOOKThe American New Woman Revisited…2020

    In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the domina…

  • Cara A. Finnegan. Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression

    Martha H PattersonARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    Cara A. Finnegan’s project is a daunting one: try to recover and theorize the ways in which Americans responded to photographs from the Civil War through the Great Depression, a period when photography became increasingly integral to American cultural life. Drawing on newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial transcripts, books, speeches, photographs, and comment cards left at exhibits, Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s Hi…

  • Recovering the work of American clubwomen

    Open AccessMartha H PattersonARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1999

    Recovering the Work of American Clubwomen Martha H. Patterson (bio) Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women’s Clubs, 1880–1920. Anne Ruggles Gere. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 367 pages. $42.50 (cloth). $18.75 (paper). Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women’s Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. Anne Meis Knupfer. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 209 pages. $50.00 (…

  • Kin' o' Rough Jestice Fer a Parson: Pauline Hopkins's Winona and the Politics of Reconstructing History

    Martha H PattersonARTICLEAfrican American Review1998Cited by: 1

    It was a terrible struggle between the two great forces - Right and Wrong. Drunken with vile passions, the Rangers fought madly but in vain against the almost supernatural prowess of their op[p]onents; like the old Spartans who braided their hair and advanced with songs and dancing to meet the enemy, the anti-slavery men advanced singing hymns and praising God. (Winona 412) Such diametric oppositions between good and evil as the one cited above w…

  • Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography

    Martha H Patterson, Martha Patterson et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1997

    Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography. Annette White-Parks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xx + 268 pages. Illustrated. $34.95, cloth. Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography. Annette White-Parks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xx + 268 pages.Illustrated. $34.95 cloth. Martha Patterson Martha Patterson University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ME…