Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White
Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter
Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine
A journey through history / Merline Pitre
Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
My history in history / Deborah Gray White
The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley
History without illusion / Julie Saville
On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. Hendricks
History lessons / Brenda Elaine Stevenson
The death of dry tears / Ula Taylor
Looking backward in order to go forward : Black women historians and Black women's history / Mia Bay
Journey toward a different self : the defining power of illness, race, and gender / Chana Kai Lee
Bodies of history / Elsa Barkley Brown
Experiencing Black feminism / Jennifer L. Morgan
Dancing on the edges of history, but never dancing alone / Barbara Ransby
How a hundred years of history tracked me down / Leslie Brown
Not so ivory : African American women historians creating academic communities / Crystal N. Feimster.