I started keeping this list in November 2022 as it was rapidly becoming cumbersome to include bibliographies on my tiny mini-comics. Since I started working at a university I have access to SO MUCH MORE information. Honestly it was a bit mind-boggling to realize. So I’ve been reading deeply and I figured keeping this page updated would be a good way to share and honor sources while conserving paper and ink. Plus now it’s all right here as a running list that I can direct people to if they’re curious. Feel free to reach out if you ever have questions about my sources.
What I Know About Ruby and June Volume 12, Issue 5, Dec 2022-Jan 2023
For this issue I relied heavily on old Omaha newspaper articles. I also looked at census records and yearbooks. Here are a few of my favorite items referenced in the mini-comic.
Truth, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2022
For this issue I found Nell Irvin Painter’s articles particularly revelatory. Her work will be of fascinating to anyone interested in photography, oral history, the messy business of how history gets written and how Sojourner Truth fought back.
John Ernest. “Misinformation and Fluidity in Print Culture; or, Searching for Sojourner Truth and Others.” Legacy, vol. 33, no. 1, 2016, pp. 22–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0022. Accessed 10 Oct. 2022.
Goldner, Ellen J. “The Art of Intervention: The Humor of Sojourner Truth and the Antebellum Political Cartoon.” MELUS, vol. 37, no. 4, 2012, pp. 41–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42001186. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Humez, Jean M. “Reading ‘The Narrative of Sojourner Truth’ as a Collaborative Text.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1996, pp. 29–52. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3346921. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Inniss, Lolita Buckner. While the Water is Stirring: Sojourner Truth as Proto-agonist in the Fight for (Black) Women’s Rights, 100 B. U. L. Rev. 1637 (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1334.
Painter, Nell Irvin. "8. Difference, Slavery, And Memory: Sojourner Truth In Feminist Abolitionism". The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, pp. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711428-012
Painter, Nell Irvin. “Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known.” The Journal of American History, vol. 81, no. 2, 1994, pp. 461–92. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081168. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Podell, Leslie. https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/