womens history

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• SOURCE: So Let's Talk About...
  10/27/2020
  

  Today I Learned: Gloria Richardson is Still Alive

  "President John F. Kennedy told protestors in Dorchester County to stand down. Gloria Richardson told JFK he could go to hell."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  10/29/2020
  

  The Woman’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation: Washington History Seminar with Thavolia Glymph 11/4

  Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas.

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• SOURCE: People
  10/26/2020
  

  Martha S. Jones on the Power of Black Women That Led to Kamala Harris' Nod for VP

  Shut out from the white-led suffrage movement by the beginning of the 20th century, Black women built their own political movement. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center
  10/23/2020
  

  Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (Virtual Event, 10/26)

  Speaker Ellen DuBois will be joined by panelists Kimberly A. Hamlin and Marcia Chatelain to discuss the history of Woman Suffrage for the Washington History Seminar, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National History Center. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  The Women Behind the Million Man March

  by Natalie Hopkinson

  Community archives such as the District of Columbia’s are critical interventions into the omissions of history. This one, like others, makes clear that behind every great feat in the public record lies an untold story of the unsung foot soldiers, architects, analysts and fixers — and these are often women.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/12/2020
  

  How We Lie to Ourselves About History

  At its best, the "You're Wrong About" podcast transcends fact-checking and debunking to ask why so many of the stories we know are wrong, and why they persist nevertheless. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About (Review)

  A new book addresses the glaring oversight of sexual assault and abuse of women as an aspect of war and conflict. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/28/2020
  

  A Fuller Picture of Artemisia Gentileschi

  As one of the first women to forge a successful career as a painter, Artemisia was celebrated internationally in her lifetime, but her reputation languished after her death.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/24/2020
  

  The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade

  Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost. 

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• SOURCE: her
  9/23/2020
  

  New Documentary Sheds Light on Hidden Sexual Violence of the Irish Revolution

  Documentarian Ciara Hyland draws on historical research to examine the suppressed stories of sexual violence against women that pervaded all sides of the Irish war for independence. 

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• SOURCE: Humanities New York
  9/15/2020
  

  Lampooning Political Women

  by Allison K. Lange

  Backlash against women's emancipation in the nineteenth century took to the most potent social media of the day--political cartoons--to decry feminism as a threat to civilization itself. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/2020
  

  Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91

  Florence Howe faced difficulty in teaching in the early days of Women's Studies: a lack of materials. She started a press that changed that. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

  Charlotta Bass led a remarkable life as a journalist and activist that, in many ways, helped lay the foundation for a figure like Harris, the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be nominated on a major-party ticket.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/8/2020
  

  “All the World’s a Harem”: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic

  by Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig and E. Thomas Ewing

  Contemporary sources show that women's mask-wearing practices during the 1918 flu pandemic could be viewed through a sexist lens, but women adapted the practice to claim independence and found examples in popular culture.

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• SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
  9/7/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveters gathered on Labor Day to Honor the Working Women of WWII

  "The Rosies and veterans then told stories from the front lines. One Rosie said she was shocked at the idea of wearing pants to work. A veteran recalled being shot down from the sky in northern Italy and receiving notes from Rosies back home full of profanities toward Hitler."

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  9/6/2020
  

  University Of Maryland Renames Women's Studies Department After Harriet Tubman

  The University of Maryland made the change to honr the hero of emancipation and reflect its commitment to teaching and scholarship about Black women's history.

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• 9/6/2020
  

  On Labor Day, Think of Bread and Roses

  by William Lambers

  On Labor Day, remember the demands of striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Working people deserve more than bare subsistence; they're entitled to dignity and pleasure too.

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• SOURCE: Cosmopolitan
  8/28/2020
  

  Tribute to Women: Spotlighting the 6 Women Honored During the First March on Washington

  Many news outlets wrongly reported that John Lewis was the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This ignores the Black women who worked to organize the march and fought for even a few words at the microphone. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2020
  

  Women Would Abolish Child Labor (and Other Anti-Suffrage Excuses)

  A host of reactionary forces let by southern segregationists and big businesses mounted a last-ditch campaign to thwart the Nineteenth Amendment, raising false accusations of bribery and corruption against state officials who supported the amendment. When that failed, they took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, to no avail. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/1/2020
  

  What's Next for Abortion Law?

  by Mary Ziegler

  Thinking historically about the abortion debate shows a shift in the ground of conflict from questions of rights to questions of restriction. The debate has always been about how the costs and benefits of childbearing are shared in society.