On Wednesday, our seniors presented research posters!

We had a great conversation about women and peace activism on Tuesday with Dr. Ashley Morin and Dr. Kate Kelly!

119 years ago, on the 9th of February 1907, the Mud March, officially the United Procession of Women, took place in London. More than 3000 women marched from Hyde Park Corner to the Strand in support of women's suffrage. It was the largest public demonstration for the cause yet. #otd #history 🗃️

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

2/4/1865 — b. Lila Meade Valentine, American educator, health reformer, suffragist, lecturer. Edu + #publichealth champion; co-founder/pres,VA Equal Suffrage League. Introduced Richmond,VA kindergartens + vocational training. Lectured for suffrage in the eastern states #womenshistory #PolSky #EduSky

Every expansion of freedom and equality in the United States has been fomented through public advocacy and organized political action—including the abolition of slavery, the provision of suffrage to women, the disestablishment of Jim Crow, the protection of workers. https://bit.ly/3LFjQla

Women’s suffrage didn’t emerge from nowhere. ✊ Quaker values of equality and conscience helped shape Seneca Falls in 1848, grounding political demands in moral conviction. #History #WomensHistory #Brewminate

1/25/1871 — b. Maud Wood Park, American suffrage leader, lobbyist, author, orator. Co-founder, Boston Equal Suffrage League + College Equal Suffrage League (1901); powerful lobbyist for the Natl Am Woman Suffrage Assn; first president @lwvus.bsky.social (1920-24) #womenshistory #womensrights #PolSky

#tdih 1972 Shirley Chisholm launched U.S. presidential campaign. An early childhood teacher, Chisholm advocated for minimum family income, public education, & labor rights; against Vietnam War, militarization of border, police brutality, & carceral state; for birth control & abortion access; & more.

Received today! Thank you! I love free book mail!

Listening to Ben Franklin's world with @lizcovart.bsky.social and learned that women and free Black people had suffrage in New Jersey between 1790-1807, with wealth requirements, before voting going solely to wealthy white men only. Fascinating. benfranklinsworld.com/episode-285-...

Virginia’s governors traditionally wear morning suits for their inaugurations. But for her swearing-in on Saturday, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, the first woman to fill that role, dressed in white, the color of women’s suffrage.

Alice Paul--suffragist, women’s rights activist, and author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)--was born #OTD in 1885. She devoted her entire life to advocating for women’s #suffrage and equal rights for women. alicepaul.org

I'm proud to share my latest AmericanStudier Guest Post, @sacredheartuniv.bsky.social undergrad Matt Dworkowitz on the fascinating, largely forgotten history of how chemotherapy was discovered at Yale Med School during WWII! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/guest-post-m...

Just received this pin which likely came from my great great aunt Mary who worked as a campaigner for women's suffrage in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment. Feels so incredible to hold and feel the history, the visceral sense of how recent this was.

How effective is protesting? "According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history."

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Finally getting back to reading this book today. Loving it.

Connecticut History Review 64.2, a special issue on Connecticut Women's Political and Economic Experience, is online! Contributors: Heather Munro Prescott ( @knittingclio.bsky.social ), @kmarino1.bsky.social ( @shuhistorydept.bsky.social ), + more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/chr/issu...

Have a wonderful winter break!

The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them

On Emily Davison's grave in Morpeth (Yorkshire), you can read the inscription ‘Deeds not words’, the slogan of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) of which she was a member 🪦

#OTD 1918 the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, giving women the right to stand for parliament, gained royal assent. To find out more about early women parliamentary candidates, and the campaigns they ran, read @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social article. historyofparliament.com/2019/06/11/s...

City of Middletown 2025! #Middletown #Connecticut

So proud of my honor’s class for making these cute little books this semester!

Came out last year between Christmas and the inauguration, so was definitely at top of everyone's mind... utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Happy Thanksgiving 2025! We are doing it early today! 🦃

Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy is about how uniquely American cultural media changed as a result of federal influences on Hollywood in the 40s/50s. I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃

Fun fact for Native American History Month: the US women's suffrage movement was heavily inspired by the women of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy. www.lwv.org/blog/how-nat...

My honor’s class made a book. I’m working on putting it into a template to print from Blurb[dot]com. Never done this before! Fingers crossed it comes (30+ copies) before the semester ends.

Suffragettes in London's Hyde Park, 1908, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), the UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

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Working!

🎁 Vintage Christmas Cards: Suffrage Santa & the Little Drummer Girl Two restored 1910–1911 designs originally created to raise funds for the Votes for Women campaign. A perfect mix of festive cheer + feminist history 🚨 Pre-orders OPEN NOW 🚨 👉 buff.ly/EUujQYp #WomenLed

Looking forward to attending this documentary screening on the history of Sicilian immigrants in Middletown. www.ctinsider.com/events-calen...

Always fun to get to moderate a session! NEHA Fall 2025! 🍁

Such a great talk today with writer and speaker Alex Myers!

New blog post--review of a new book out this week: Lorissa Rinehart's biography of Jeannette Rankin. Someone I've always been curious about, and the book is a pleasure to read--there's lots about Progressivism, woman suffrage, and 20th-century American politics. www.cherylwalsh.net/blog

My second book is getting closer to the finish line! If you liked book 1, you love book 2 as it tells the second part of the story of MWP and college student activism in the 1920s and the 1930s for civic engagement and women’s rights! library.duke.edu/research/stu...

Happy Halloween!

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