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Letters to the editor are presented in response to the articles "Dear Future Historians" by Allison Miller in the December 2016 issue and "Political History: An Exchange" in the January 2017 issue.

Abstract:The collection below was published in Greek by Gnosi ("Knowledge") Publications in Athens. It inaugurates a series on women's history by this press in a country whose universities as yet offer no women's history courses and where no women's studies programs exist. This translation of part of the Editors' Note and Preface by Angelos Kokkinos offers a bitter indictment by the editors of academic Greek historiography's utter disinterest in the history of Greek women or of Greek feminism. The Co-Editors of the Journal of Women's History encourage its international readers to submit similar excerpts or descriptions in translation of important feminist historical works not yet available in English.Feminism in Inter-War Greecerepresents a heroic effort at retreival of women's past, indeed a rather recent past, that was already fading from sight when a group of young activist Greek university women began to reclaim it. The women whose words they have retrieved from time's ravages (Maria Svollou, Roza Imvrioti, Alkis Thrilos, Sofia Antoniadou, to name but a few) are not known to us-but like many women whose names we know better, they should be considered previous witnesses. They young women who edited this collection, Efi Avdela and Angelica Psarra, have committed a heroic act in preserving these texts and their authors from oblivion, a strange oblivion resulting when political needs as defined by male leadership of Greek progressive politics overpowered and drowned out the women's claims. We are reminded by these texts and their editors how difficult it can be to sustain feminist momentum in difficult political circumstances, and we thank them for the courage and conviction that made this material once again available.

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The article presents discussion regarding the status of political history as a discipline in the U.S. as of 2011. The author focuses on the integration of feminism into the field. Comments are given examining both the methodology of feminist historians which utilize political analysis and the history of feminism from the perspective of political history.

Information about several papers discussed at the conference of the International Federation for Research in women's History (IFRWH) in Sofia, Bulgaria on August 8-12, 2007 is presented. The theme of the conference was "Women, Gender, and the Cultural Production of Knowledge." Among the speakers include Mineke Schipper, Karen Offen, and Mihaela Miroiu.