History Speaker Series with Margaret MacDonald and Caroline Beatrice Parker
From Working Historians by Robert Denning and James Fennessy
December 10, 2024 · 60 min · Episode 166
About this episode
Dr. Margaret MacDonald discusses her career and research on Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first Black woman to receive an advanced degree in physics.
In this History Speaker Series event, Dr. Margaret MacDonald discusses her professional and academic career, her advocacy work as a public historian, and her research on Carolyn Beatrice Parker, the first Black woman known to receive an advanced degree in physics and worked on the Dayton Project, part of the Manhattan Project, during World War II. Dr. Peggy Macdonald is a public historian and adjunct professor. She has taught at Southern New Hampshire University, Stetson University, Indian River State College and the University of Florida, where she received a Ph.D. in history. A native Floridian, Dr. Macdonald has written about local and Florida history for FORUM Magazine, Gainesville Magazine, Our Town Magazine, and Senior Times. In 2014, the University Press of Florida published her book, Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment. Recommendations: Jack Davis, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (W. W. Norton, 2017) Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Anti-Slavery Society, 1845)
People in this episode
Guests: Margaret MacDonald, Caroline Beatrice Parker
Topics covered
- public history
- Black history
- women in science
- Manhattan Project
Keywords
- history speaker series
- Dayton Project
- World War II
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Books & works: History Speaker Series, Ph.D., The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
Places: Florida
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