The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice by Bonnie G. Smith wrote about the roles of men and women in American and European historical writing during the nineteenth century. Smith stated that she “proposes that the development of modern scientific methodology, epistemology, professional practice, and writing has been closely tied to evolving definitions of masculinity and femininity” (1). She illustrated how gender shaped history from 1800-1940. This work analyzed the amateur history written by women in the nineteenth century and trivialized by the scientific minded professional male historians. She juxtaposed the professional historian, who explored archives and sought universal truth—which tended to be male—to the amateur,
