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Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

Professional Motherhood: A New Interpretation of Women in the Early Republic

Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic.

by C. C. Borzilleri via The Junto on January 21, 2020

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.

by Caroline Fraser via Literary Hub on May 16, 2019

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

by Ed Yong via The Atlantic on February 11, 2019

Time to Expose the Women Still Celebrating the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is still a functioning organization with white supremacist roots.

by Kali Holloway via The Daily Beast on November 2, 2018

Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.

by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review

A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.

by Robinson Meyer, Ashley Fetters via The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

Finding Hope: A Woman’s Place is in the Lab

A previously unnamed scientist finally gets her due.

by Ashley Bowen via Circulating Now on September 6, 2018

Demonstrators march with pro-ERA and LGBT signs.

Why The Equal Rights Amendment Might Be On The Verge Of A Comeback

The ERA has been dead for 36 years, but now women may have the tools to overcome opposition.

by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on June 18, 2018

'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

by Rebecca Stoner via Pacific Standard on April 12, 2018

Men Write History, But Women Live It

The people who make it past 100, who watch the most history unfold, are almost all women.

by Chloe Angyal via HuffPost on March 1, 2018

The Quiet Genius of Margalit Fox’s Obituaries

For years, she’s injected subtle, deft works of cultural history into the New York Times.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 1, 2018

Women's march in front of the U.S. Capitol.

How Second-Wave Feminism Inexplicably Became a Villain in the #MeToo Debate

Talking sexism, ageism, and progress with Katha Pollitt.

by Katha Pollitt, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on January 24, 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

Collage of newspaper clippings about Jacqueline Smith's death.

A Christmas Abortion

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

by Gillian Frank via NOTCHES on December 15, 2015

Abortion in American History

How do ideological debates on gender roles influence the abortion debate?

by Katha Pollitt via The Atlantic on May 1, 1997

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