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Military ServiceThe connection between military service and citizenship demands constant critique. Yet for someone who finds it incomprehensible why a person would…
Meet Anna DickinsonThere were no microphones in the struggle for suffrage. Radio didn't yet exist. Public lectures were the only way to hear new ideas, and giving a…
Mary Grew & Margaret BurleighMary Grew, abolitionist leader & newspaper editor. Her work was respected by all the men in the movement—except her own father. Mary >> back…
Mabel & FlorenceSurgeons gonna surgeon, and Dr. Mabel Seagrave was practically giddy about what she could learn by going to war. She anticipated “a wonderful advance…
Live-tweeting PBS' The Vote, Part IIHoping they'll mention that after her two husbands, Carrie Chapman Catt spent the last 30+ years of her life with Mary Garrett Hay. Leaving it right…
Lesbian Erasure from the CentennialWe gotta talk about lesbians. Specifically, about lesbian erasure. Queer is cool, right? It’s 2020! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️etc., etc. So why…
Law School by Tweet: 14th AmendmentThe hashtag #HATM stands for historians at the movies; is there an opera equivalent?! Saw “The Mother of Us All” last night. Happy to report that the…
It's National Coming Out Day!It’s #NationalComingOutDay Let’s fling open the suffrage closet, shall we? We could start almost anywhere. How ‘bout the biggest suffrage org, NAWSA.…
How we know and why it mattersAnna Dickinson was a lesbian, as Matt Gallman demonstrates in his 2006 biography. He quotes Dickinson’s steamy correspondence with a variety of women,…
Dr. Walker, part IThe only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor - the US military’s highest decoration - was a genderqueer Civil War surgeon named Dr. Mary Edwards…