womens history

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It’s Only Been 96 Years.

  Virginia, soon to be under Democratic control, will likely be the 38th state to ratify the amendment. The Supreme Court could decide what happens next.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/29/19
  

  What we get wrong about Ben Franklin’s ‘a republic, if you can keep it’

  by Zara Anishanslin

  Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/25/19
  

  New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground

  The city’s plan to commemorate women, people of color and others overlooked in the past is leading to fights over who should be honored and how.

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• 10/29/19
  

  Native Americans, government authorities, and reproductive politics

  In her new book, assistant professor of history Brianna Theobald traces the long history of efforts by federal and local authorities to manage the reproductive lives of Native families, and the response from Native Americans themselves.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/23/19
  

  Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless

  by Bridget Marshall

  Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/18/19
  

  Gail Collins' robust social history of America's changing attitudes towards women's aging

  No Stopping Us Now makes clear, for example, that two particularly challenging times to be an older woman in America were the youth-obsessed 1920s and 1960s. 

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  10/23/19
  

  The US has fewer than 400 statues of women—but that’s changing

  Activists and experts in the field sometimes call this gender gap in statues a marble or bronze ceiling.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/23/19
  

  No Longer Invisible, An African American Woman’s Journey

  by Ida E. Jones

  In Rosalyn Terborg-Penn direct confrontation with the sexism of some African American male scholars and racism of some white women scholars, she co-founded the Association of Black Women Historians. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  The 19th amendment was a crucial achievement. But it wasn’t enough to liberate women.

  by Holly Jackson

  It’s time to fight for the original and unfulfilled goals of the women’s movement.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  10/10/19
  

  The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’

  by Anna Laymon

  The song was written as Jack Norworth’s ode to his girlfriend, the progressive and outspoken Trixie Friganza, a famous vaudeville actress and suffragist.  

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• 10/11/19
  

  The History Briefing on Pregnancy Discrimination: What Historians Had to Say About This Week’s News

  by Isabella DelPino

  How historians discussed pregnancy discrimination this week. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/7/19
  

  “We Feel Very Betrayed”: Community Protests Replacement for J. Marion Sims Monument

  New York City published an open call to replace a contested monument for Sims, who conducted brutal experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia. 

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• SOURCE: City Lab
  9/24/19
  

  20 Sites That Tell the Story of American Women Compete for Grant from National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express

  Twenty sites across the United States have been selected to participate in the 2019 competition for a piece of a $2 million grant.

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• SOURCE: National Trust for Historic Preservation
  9/20/19
  

  Celebrating Women’s History with Historian Dr. Tiya Miles

  In preparation for the TrustLive on Celebrating Women's History at PastForward 2019, Priya Chhaya asked Dr. Miles a few questions about her work.

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• 9/22/19
  

  Before the Pussy Hats: Stitching Together the Recent Feminist Movement

  by Rachel F. Seidman

  Today's feminist movement has a history. They rely on networks, relationships, and lessons learned from decades of movement building.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  Accessed 9/19/19
  

  Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That

  The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/16/19
  

  Historians Explain Why Vote on Central Park’s Contested Suffragist Monument Is Postponed

  Jacob Morris, the Director of The Harlem Historical Society, demands the addition of a plaque to the sculpture that would give a historical context. 

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  9/10/11
  

  Ms. Monopoly is here. Psst: A woman invented the game in the first place

  The Monopoly game was the brainchild of a woman named Lizzie Magie at the turn of the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up. It wasn’t for her emails.

  Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.

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• SOURCE: History Today
  September 2019
  

  Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History? 3 historians discuss

  by Jane Ridley, Sean Lang, Lucasta Miller

  How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?