Kathryn Gehred

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Kathryn Gehret is a women’s historian and research editor at the Martha Washington Papers Project at the University of Virginia. She is the host of the podcast “Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant” a women’s history podcast showcasing 18th and early 19th century women’s letters.

Sept. 1, 2021

209. Reading Letters by Early American Women with Kathryn Gehred (Summer Repeat)

If you pull any decent history book off your shelf right now, odds are that it’s filled with quotes from letters, diaries, or account books that help the author tell her story and provide the evidence for her interpretation …