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Martha Hodes

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As If I Wasn’t There: Writing from a Child’s Memory

The author confronts the daunting task of writing about her childhood memory, both as a memoirist and a historian.

by Martha Hodes via American Historical Review on September 19, 2022
Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

by David W. Blight, Martha Hodes via Public Books on November 26, 2018
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.

by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

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Martha Hodes (left) and her sister, Catherine, joint passport photo.

The Historian Who Lost Her Memory of a Hijacking

At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?

by Jacob Bacharach via The New Republic on July 25, 2023

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