Author Talk with Elizabeth Engelhardt

Author Elizabeth Engelhardt discusses her book Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America.
From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners.