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Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan

How New York’s Postwar Female Painters Battled for Recognition

The women of the historic Ninth Street Show had a will of iron and an intense need for their talent to be expressed, no matter the cost.

by Claudia Roth Pierpont via The New Yorker on October 1, 2018

The Endless Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem

What variables make a woman's inclusion in history more likely?

by Michelle Moravec via b2o on August 1, 2018

The Real Reason the Trump Administration Went to War Over Breast-Feeding

On breast-feeding, Trump is following the Reagan formula.

by Paul Adler via Made By History on July 11, 2018

Laura Bush and Michelle Obama.

Why Laura Bush Speaking Up on Separating Families Matters So Much

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.

by Jim Downs via Made By History on June 20, 2018

“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.

by Janet Golden via Nursing Clio on April 23, 2018

Dolores Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.

Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta

Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.

by Dolores Huerta, Lily Rothman via TIME on March 27, 2018

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.

by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 2018

Woman in a KKK hood holding a baby.

No, Talking About Women's Role in White Supremacy is NOT Blaming Women

Women’s role in the 1920s KKK can teach us about racism today.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on January 23, 2018

The Women of Jane

The story of an underground abortion service that operated pre-Roe vs. Wade.

by Radio Diaries via NPR on January 19, 2018

The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff

Vendors hawked the swill as “Pure Country Milk.”

by Tyler Moss via Atlas Obscura on November 27, 2017

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.

by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017

A man on woman driving a tractor overlaid on industrial farming in the background. Drawn in manner akin to Soviet propaganda.

The American Housewives who Sought Freedom in Soviet Russia

A forgotten chapter in the history of feminism: why American women chose to flee the West for ‘freedom’ in Soviet Russia

by Julia L. Mickenberg via Aeon on July 6, 2017

Mother’s Friend: Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century America

How antebellum women prevented themselves from getting pregnant during an era when their identity was founded on being a mother.

by Lauren MacIvor Thompson via National Museum of Civil War Medicine on February 5, 2017

A Short History of the Tomboy

With roots in race and gender discord, has the “tomboy” label worn out its welcome?

by Elizabeth King via The Atlantic on January 5, 2017

Twenty-First Century Victorians

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.

by Jason Tebbe via Jacobin on October 31, 2016

Aerial view of identical-looking houses in suburbs

Welcome to Disturbia

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.

by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Curbed on May 25, 2016

The Racial Symbolism of the Topsy-Turvy Doll

The uncertain meaning behind a half-black, half-white, two-headed toy.

by Julian K. Jarboe via The Atlantic on November 20, 2015

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