This is the grave of Belva Lockwood. Born in 1830 in Royalton, New York, Belva Bennett grew up in pretty unremarkable circumstances. She went to school for awhile, which made.
This is the grave of Annie Webb Blanton. Born in 1870 in Houston, Texas, Blanton grew up pretty well off, though her mother died when she was 12. By that.
We started our day with women's suffrage so let's end it there too, with this 1912 anti-suffrage film, A Lively Affair. The messaging on this is horrible, basically saying that.
For my latest podcast with authors of recent books, I had the great pleasure of talking to Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Penn State, about her fantastic new.
Very interesting piece by the historian Allison Lange on how the debate around whether can "have it all" goes back to the suffrage movement. While this work is a necessity.
On the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, there's a lot of interesting writing about its legacy, not to mention awesome grave posts about suffragists. First, while it's always a bit.
The historical memory of the women's suffrage movement that culminated in the Nineteenth Amendment, 100 years ago, is almost lily white. The pictures in our mind are of the mothers.
Mt. Rushmore is a racist abomination. The blasting of presidential faces into a South Dakota mountain was an openly racist act of the early twentieth century. This land had been.
