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An embroidered sack that says "My great grandmother Rose, mother of Ashley gave her this sack when, she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina, it held a tattered dress 3 handfulls of pecans a braid of Rose's hair. Told her it be filled with my Love always, she never saw her again, Ashley is my grandmother, Ruth Middleton 1921

To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on June 8, 2021

A collage featuring early feminists.

Pointing a Way Forward

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.

by Jessica Wilkerson via Southern Cultures on October 1, 2020

Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.

by Soraya Chemaly, Breanne Fah via Literary Hub on March 24, 2020

National Archives Exhibit Blurs Images Critical of President Trump

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

by Joe Heim via Washington Post on January 17, 2020

Putting Women Back Where They Belong: In Federalism and the U.S. History Survey

Looking to the local level showcases how women claimed their rights in Early America.

by Laura F. Edwards via Muster on December 27, 2019

Nancy Pelosi

What We Get Wrong About Ben Franklin’s ‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on October 29, 2019

The Women Who Helped Build Hollywood

They played essential behind-the-scenes roles as the American movie industry was taking off. What happened?

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on October 28, 2019

Managing Our Darkest Hatreds And Fears: Witchcraft From The Middle Ages To Brett Kavanaugh

America has a history of dealing with witches - and it has culminated in a modern movement of politically active ones.

by Diane Purkiss via Athenaeum Review on October 14, 2019

The Hidden Story of Two African American Women

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

by Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay via The Conversation on September 9, 2019

How the Camera Introduced Americans to Their Heroines

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 9, 2019

Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith, And The Disappointments of One-Sided Correspondence

Lost letters between Jane Addams and her best friend leave questions for historians,

by Stacy Pratt McDermott via Jane Addams Papers Project on July 1, 2019

The ‘Undesirable Militants’ Behind the Nineteenth Amendment

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on June 4, 2019

Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia

A conversation with the curator of an exhibit about the oft-overlooked lives of women in early colonial Virginia.

by Katherine Egner Gruber, Philippe Halbert via The Junto on May 20, 2019

Collage of old political cartoons related to the question of women's suffrage.

Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

via Massachusetts Historical Society on April 26, 2019

The (Historical) Body in Pain

How can we understand the physical pain of others?

by Cassia Roth via Nursing Clio on April 9, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 14, 2019

Unnamed Black girl.

An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

by Saidiya Hartman via The New Yorker on February 9, 2019

And the Women Shall Lead Us

A new book shows how women's leadership in black nationalist movements has always been hidden in plain sight.

by Stephen G. Hall via Public Books on December 3, 2018

In the 19th Century, Miscarriage Could Be a Happy Relief

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 26, 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 Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade

When most people hear the term rare books, they imagine an old boys’ club of dealers seeking out first editions, mostly by men.

by Diane Mehta via The Paris Review on July 5, 2018

Well-Behaved Women Make History Too

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?

by Joanna Scutts via Slate on June 21, 2018

How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History

A historian turned novelist ponders the absence of women from America's historical archives.

by Katy Simpson Smith via Zócalo Public Square on June 8, 2018

The Internet Women Made

Claire L. Evans’s new book is a bittersweet reminder that the internet used to be freer and more fun.

by Anna Wiener via The New Republic on May 1, 2018

The Hidden History of Anna Murray Douglass

Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Anna made his work possible.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on March 5, 2018

Rosie the Riveters Discovered a Wartime California Dream

Following wartime opportunities west, seven million “Rosie the Riveters” found more than just jobs when they reached California.

by Samuel J. Redman via The Conversation on November 29, 2017

The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.

by Madeline Appel, Sally Littlefield via The Berkeley Revolution on July 7, 2017

The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.

by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 20, 2017

The Anti-Capitalist Woman Who Created Monopoly—Before Others Cashed In

The beloved board game's long-hidden origin story debunks the myth of a male lone genius.

by Mary Pilon via What It Means to Be American on March 27, 2017

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