I am doing my very best to work hard through the day and maybe even not watch the results tonight. This is a necessary situation in part because of this insane semester and how far behind I am even on basic things that are required...
women’s suffrage
This is the grave of Susan B. Anthony. Born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, her family was deeply steeped in the social reform of the antebellum period. Her father was.
The story of how white suffrage activists went full racist in the late 19th century in their demands for the right to vote is well-known among American historians. But as.
This is the grave of Abigail Scott Duniway. Born in 1834, in Illinois, Abigail Scott migrated with her family to Oregon in 1852, where she soon married Benjamin Duniway, a farmer who had recently migrated himself from Illinois. They had six children but Benjamin Duniway...
I am more than a wee bit overwhelmed right now, and really will be for the foreseeable future as I enter the semester from hell. It's pretty bad when colleagues.
In the latter part of her career, the pioneering oral historian Alice Fry started a definitive biography of Paul's life up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. When she.
Frances Willard This is from last year, but I just saw it so I am going to post about it anyway. Mallory Ortberg really presented the unfortunate issue of suffrage activists using white supremacy to press their case in the most effective way possible. Although...
John Hodgman, reading a anti-women's suffrage letter to the editor from 1914.