Description: By examining the trials and triumphs of UK's first female undergraduates, faculty, and administrators, this book uncovers the lasting impact women had on higher learning in the early days of coeducation.
Brief description: Terry L. Birdwhistell is founding director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and served as Dean of University of Kentucky Libraries. He is a former president of the Oral History Association and is coauthor of Our Rightful Place: Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880-1945.
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"A seminal work of articulate and meticulous scholarship, Our Rightful Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880 - 1945 is a unique study that could well serve as a template for similar studies at other institutions." -- Midwest Book Review