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Native Women and Suffrage

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 3, 2020

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 of the movement, such as Anthony and Stanton, white women in white dresses marching down...

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Mt. Rushmore: One of America’s Worst Places

By Erik Loomis

On June 13, 2020

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.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 465

By Erik Loomis

On April 30, 2019

This is the grave of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York, Stanton's father was a leading attorney and Federalist who served a term in Congress in.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 454

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 11, 2019

This is the grave of Mary Elizabeth Garrett. Born into an elite Baltimore family in 1854, Garrett grew up in wealth. Her father was president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and good friend of Abraham Lincoln, they lived in a big mansion, etc. She...

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Whiling Away the Hours

By Erik Loomis

On November 6, 2018

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.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 342

By Erik Loomis

On October 28, 2018

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.

Suffrage and Race

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 29, 2018

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 we reach the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020, to what extent will this...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 60

By Erik Loomis

On December 4, 2016

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.

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19th Amendment Voting

By Erik Loomis

On September 9, 2016

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.

Book Review: J.D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry, Alice Paul: Claiming Power

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 31, 2015

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 could not finish it due to the onset of Alzheimer's Disease, J.D. Zahniser took it...

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Women’s Suffrage and White Supremacy

By Erik Loomis

On June 7, 2015

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.

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Cranky White Men of a Century Ago

By Erik Loomis

On May 4, 2014

John Hodgman, reading a anti-women's suffrage letter to the editor from 1914.

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