Thursday, September 5, 2 p.m. EST
Join CEO Gloria L. Blackwell for a conversation with AAUW Community Action Grantee, Tiya Miles. Ph.D., about her book “Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped Women Who Challenged a Nation.”
Gloria and Dr. Miles will discuss her latest work that puts girls of all races — and the landscapes they loved — at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness, and vision. It focuses on trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from Harriet Tubman to Louisa May Alcott to Dolores Huerta. Navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them—and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today.
Dr. Tiya Miles is the author of nine books, including multiple prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. They include, “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake,” a New York Times bestseller that won 11 historical and literary prizes, including the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2022 Cundill History Prize. It was also named A Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. Other acclaimed scholarly works include: “The Dawn of Detroit,” “Tales from the Haunted South,” “The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story,” and “Ties That Bind".
Dr. Miles is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, and Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. Among many others, her work has been supported by a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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