Posts Tagged ‘suffragists’
Talking About Women’s History: A Whole Bunch of Questions and an Answer with Allison Lange
Allison Lange is a historian who explores the stories that pictures tell about the intersection of gender and power in U.S. history. She writes, gives talks, teaches and curates exhibitions dealing with American women’s history. She is an associate profession of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and served as Historian for…
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Reading My Way to The 19th Amendment
Like many of us, I had plans for the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment. One of those plans was to run a series of blog posts about the suffrage movement in July and August. Then my life took a sharp turn: first I wrote a history book for kids in thirty days and then…
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Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War
If you’re interested in the American Civil War, you’ve probably heard of Dr. Mary Walker. You probably know that she: 1) Worked as a surgeon in the war 2) Is the only woman to have received the Medal of Honor 3) Wore pants long before it was common for women to wear pants. All those…
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