Articles by Elisabeth P. Waugaman

Elisabeth P. Waugaman is the author and illustrator of the medal-winning Follow Your Dreams: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, and author of Women,Their Names, and the Stories They Tell, is a blogger for Psychology Today Online, and is on the faculty of the New Directions Writing Program of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C.

Tue Jul 29 2014

Black Baby Names: African-American traditions

Guest blogger Elisabeth Waugaman looks at the history of African-American names, and in particular at the influence of slavery.

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