You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough." Adele Logan Alexander More Quotes by Adele Logan Alexander More Quotes From Adele Logan Alexander It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war. Adele Logan Alexander patriotic dream war Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied. Adele Logan Alexander curiosity together mean It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people. Adele Logan Alexander race men believe When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men. Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard, I would argue, but not always out there where they're counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions. Adele Logan Alexander different home men For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often. Adele Logan Alexander track important kind I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals. Adele Logan Alexander mean looks thinking I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do. Adele Logan Alexander college children school
