womens history

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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?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Laure Adler and Camille Viéville's new book rewrites art history to include women

  A review of  “The Trouble with Women Artists." 

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• 9/8/19
  

  Beyond the Vote, The Suffragists Helped Launch Modern Business Franchising

  by Jane R. Plitt

  We should also acknowledge the role of the suffrage movement in supporting the launch of modern franchising begun by Martha Matilda Harper in 1891.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Not having kids is nothing new. What centuries of history tell us about childlessness today.

  by Rachel Chrastil

  The long history of childlessness can help us to debunk myths, tell our stories and expand the range of our possibilities. 

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• SOURCE: CBC News
  8/24/19
  

  How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out

  Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/13/19
  

  Help the New York Times Create a Walking Map of Women's History

  Researchers estimate that women’s stories make up just 0.5 percent of recorded history. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple Reviews WOMEN’S WAR: FIGHTING AND SURVIVING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 
by Stephanie McCurry

  Who wrote women out of Civil War history?

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• SOURCE: Nevada Appeal
  8/6/2019
  

  Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto introduces bill to honor women’s suffrage with series of new quarters

  Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Deb Fischer of Nebraska have introduced legislation that would create a series of 25-cent pieces honoring women’s history and suffrage.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  7/28/2019
  

  Lessons For Today’s Careers From A Woman Who Changed History – Texas Governor Ann Richards

  Richards changed history by going out on many limbs throughout her life and career.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/28/2019
  

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reflects on Her Place in History

  Does Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 86-year-old feminist icon, have any regrets about her professional life? Hardly.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  The Literary Battle of the Sexes, 1907-Style

  Of the 28 most popular books published between 1895 and 1902, 25 were by men. By 1904, though, the situation had begun to improve — and 1907 was a record-breaking year for women’s book sales.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/24/19
  

  Is Capitalism or Communism Better for Women? How the Kitchen Debate Gave a New Meaning to the Cold War 'Home Front'

   In American and Soviet homes, the capitalism-communism divide was a topic of conversation at many a kitchen table — and, most famously, in one model kitchen.

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• SOURCE: Time
  July 17, 2019
  

  The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate

  by Katharine Wilkinson

  A female scientist made the connection between carbon dioxide and global warming in the mid 19th century. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/16/19
  

  Behind the men on the moon, there were thousands of women

  As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission this week, let’s remember something else: the thousands of women from Cambridge to California who helped make possible the trip to the moon.