“We must be people who have history”: American women’s history through the eyes of lecturers Haskins lectures

The article determines that the institution of personalized honorary lectures, which is one of the established forms of organizing the scientific and professional activities of Western historical science, can be considered as a historiographical fact and a subject of study for a historian of historical science. It is found that the texts of the lectures of the Haskins Lecture, established in 1983 by the American Council of Scientific Societies, are ego-histories and can be considered as historiographical facts and as ego-documents on intellectual history and American women’s history. Based on the analysis of the text of the lectures of the Haskins Lecture, which belong to women historians of women’s history, the features of the intellectual space of American women’s history are revealed, including reflection on the nature of interest in the creation of a new field of historical knowledge - the history of women.