womens history

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  1/14/2021
  

  How Heather Cox Richardson Built a Sisterhood of Concerned Americans

  Heather Cox Richardson's successful newsletter and growing grassroots media stardom reflects Americans' hunger for historical understanding but also, especially among her female readers, for a calm and compassionate style of analysis. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/15/2021
  

  White Women’s Role In White Supremacy, Explained

  Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers and author Seyward Darby explain why the presence of women among the Capitol rioters should not be surprising. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  1/5/2020
  

  Until 1968, a Married Texas Woman Couldn’t Own Property or Start a Business Without Her Husband’s Permission. This Dallas Attorney Changed That

  Louise Raggio was the Texas attorney who pushed for the Marital Property Act of 1967 which legally allowed married women to take legal and financial actions without their husbands' permission (her prior legal career had been in technical violation of the law). 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/2/2021
  

  'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists

  Since 2009, a nonprofit organization called Advancing Women Artists has worked to recover work by female artists and document the history of sexism in the arts. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/20/2020
  

  The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement

  by Deborah Cohen

  Historian Deborah Cohen reviews new books on the early womens movement by Rachel Holmes and Martha S. Jones. 

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Actually, It's Doctor....

  by Suzanne Chod

  A recent editorial asking Dr. Jill Biden to stop using the honorific is steeped in sexism and nostalgia for the unchallenged authority of white men. Ironically, her upcoming public role may help to further break down such hierarchies.

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  12/15/2020
  

  The Hidden History of the First Black Women to Serve in the U.S. Navy

  The first cohort of Black women to serve in the US Navy were enlisted as reservists to fill shortages in the service's clerical workforce. At the time, the nation's climate of racism forced them to keep a low profile. A researcher compiling a book about the "Golden Fourteen" mined family history to learn about their service. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  12/15/2020
  

  Working With Death: The Experience of Feeling in the Archive

  by Ruth Lawlor

  A researcher of sexual assault against women by American troops in World War II confronted the problem that the archive captures only a traumatic event and leaves the human being affected in the shadows. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12/8/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due 75 Years After the End of World War II

  This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy. 

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• 12/13/2020
  

  Senator Mike Lee Disregards History While Claiming to Support American Unity

  by Matt Chumchal

  Senator Mike Lee this week claimed proposed museums dedicated to the history of women and Latino/as in America would foster division by ethnicity and sex. A biology professor shares an experience with the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and argues that the proposed museums are in fact needed to create the understanding needed to forge unity.

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  12/10/2020
  

  New Oral History Project Spotlights Roles of Nashville’s Women Musicians

  Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/10/2020
  

  The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control

  by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham

  Black women in Georgia have long been leaders in building coalitions for political rights, labor protection, and equal justice under law. It's fitting that Black women have been leaders in the state's political shift toward the Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  12/8/2020
  

  How History Classes on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Leave Out the Work of Black Voting Rights Activists

  Historian Lisa Tetrault argues that the idea of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention as the birthplace of the American women's movement was a retroactive story used to include white, respectable, moderate suffragists and exclude both more radical women and women of color from the movement. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/3/2020
  

  Congress Takes Crucial Step toward Establishing Latino and Women’s History Museums

  The proposed museums would follow the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/4/2020
  

  50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant

  A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/2/2020
  

  Cicely was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death During an Epidemic in 1714 Has Lessons that Resonate in Today's Pandemic

  by Nicole S. Maskiell

  A gravestone marking the burial of Cicely, an enslaved teenage girl in Cambridge, Mass., points to gap between the importance of black women's labor to colonial society (especially in times of crisis like epidemics) and their remembrance in history.

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• SOURCE: War on The Rocks
  11/30/2020
  

  Musing on Gender Integration in the Military with Simone de Beauvoir

  by Bill Bray

  For those engaged in the military gender integration debate today, de Beauvoir’s writing offers an additional reminder — those arguing against more integration may be no less intelligent and sincere than those championing change. But they still may be wrong.

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• 11/22/2020
  

  Take a Lesson from the Persistence of the Founder of Modern Thanksgiving

  by William Lambers

  Sarah Josepha Hale pushed Abraham Lincoln to declare a national Thanksgiving holiday as a day to seek healing and unity. Fighting to end hunger is a way to recommit to the spirit of the holiday.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2020
  

  Patsy Takemoto Mink Blazed The Trail For Kamala Harris – Not Susan B. Anthony

  by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

  Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1972 as the first woman of color in Congress, deserves recognition as a pioneering advocate for gender equity and the rights of Americans Caribbean and Pacific territories, and for preparing a path for Kamala Harris's election as Vice President. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/17/2020
  

  When Schools Closed, Americans Turned to Their Usual Backup Plan: Mothers

  "Mothers are the fallback plan in the United States in part because of persistent beliefs that they are ultimately responsible for homemaking and child rearing, and because of the lack of policies to help parents manage the load."