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When your origin story is on the #WrongSideOfHistory, it tends to get whitewashed.  Such is the case with the @CooperHewitt, a marvelous museum to visit, even digitally. Their website tells the story of its founding sisters, but doesn’t mention their…

What does this guy have to do with this woman? Hint: dynastic politics. Charles S. Whitman was elected Governor of New York in 1914.  By that time he was a committed suffragist. His wife Olive belonged to the Women’s Political Union, which was the…

Look who's wearing a white suit!!!!

Catholics from Atlantic coast states can provide political stability with inclusive, calm, wise leadership. I’m talking about Margaret Brent. Businesswoman, lawyer, and trusted agent of the governor of Maryland, she demanded the right to vote in…

I try to imagine what it felt like to have no vote. Not an insignificant vote, not a challenged vote, not a gerrymandered vote. No vote. To imagine how it felt to be a woman or an enslaved person in 1856, during a three-way race among pro-slavery…

These women are being arrested for poll watching while female. It’s New York City, September 1910, the Democratic primary. Before the day is over six women at four different precincts in Hell’s Kitchen have been hauled before the magistrate court.…

We don’t have an affirmative right to vote under the Constitution. There is no explicit promise that citizen = voter. But from 1868-1872, after the ratification of the 14th Amendment, hundreds of white and Black women personally attempted to…

One of these sculptures was made by a man, one by a woman. You can guess, right? (Representation of power thread.) Luciano Garbati says his “Medusa With The Head of Perseus” is a statement about avenging sexual violence. It was installed this month…

I am decidedly opposed to male suffrage and the following are some of my reasons. First: A man, for possibly an hour each year in order to cast his ballot, would be compelled to neglect his family and his business. Secondly: Politics corrupt men;…

I can’t stop thinking about this girl. Her gorgeous smile, her presence in front of the camera. The photo was taken sometime in the 1860s. @amhistorymuseum shared it on Instagram a few days ago, and I keep coming back to it. Long thread.We don’t…