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Review: ‘Suffs' tunefully tells story of women's fight to vote in America

As Americans today are debating about democracy under the current president, it couldn’t be a better time for the ...
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The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...

The Victorian trend that's still contorting women's bodies

By the early 2010s, the bodycon era was in full swing, fueling a need for tight, smoothing undergarments that create the ...
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First Ladies Made History in the East Wing. It Was Razed for Trump’s Ballroom.

In a statement released Monday night, the White House characterized the response to the East Wing demolition as the “latest ...
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Timeline of Firsts for American Women

Each woman reached a milestone in American politics, business, or social movements. Reviewed by Erika Rasure Gender discrimination has historically placed barriers to the success of women in the ...

Norton Museum 'Veiled Presence' explores peculiar practices of 19th-century photography

Running through Nov. 30, the Norton's "Veiled Presence" focuses on the "hidden mother" style of photography that was popular ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide

An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty Images The first New Jersey State ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her

Sophie Mousseau is identified simply as “Arapaho” on one version of the photo and “Dakota” on another. National Anthropological Archives / Smithsonian Institution As a scholar of 19th-century American ...
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Rights, Duties, and Relations: Toward a Pro-Woman Feminism for the 21st Century

Feminism, understood as the peculiar modern ideology of the 20th century, has reached its self-destroying zenith in the erasure of woman in gender ideology and in the putative “right” to intentionally ...