This is the grave of Alva Belmont. Born in 1853 in Mobile, Alabama, Alva Smith came from the white elite South, which meant massive numbers of slaves. Her family had a lot of southern politicians and merchants in it and all the money came from...
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This is the grave of Rebecca Latimer Felton and William Felton. Born in Decatur, Georgia in 1835, Rebecca Latimer grew up in the slaver class, something she always loved and.
The Trump administration's basic goal on both economic and social issues is not only to return America to an imagined 1950s, but to an imagined 1890s. This Jim Crow Gilded.
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 her qualified to teach elementary school at the age of 14, given the era. She...
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.
This is the grave of Isabella Beecher Hooker. Born in 1822 in Litchfield, Connecticut, Isabella Beecher came from the nation's most prominent reformer family. Her father Lyman Beecher was the.
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 women are using suffrage as an excuse to gamble, ignore their kids, steal bikes, henpeck...
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.
On September 17, 1868, the Working Women's Association formed as the working class representation within the women's suffrage and labor movements. This short-lived moment in our labor history demonstrates at.
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 for most families today, there was a time when many Americans resisted the idea of...
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.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified on this day in 1920, the grave series has a special guest post from Kathleen McIntyre, assistant professor of Gender.