Beyond Harriet African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad
This November, Focus Features will release the anticipated movie Harriet in theaters worldwide. In promoting…
Browsing: Women
Church Ladies and Grassroots Political Religion
Following the excitement of the 2017 Women’s March, many white suburban women in swing districts…
#MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan
Ku Klux Klan paraders, Muncie, Indiana, 1922. Image Courtesy of Ball State University Archives and Special Collections. The public outing of predatory men has changed public discourse about sexual assault. With the…
Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History
Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph…
Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities: Centennial Reappraisals Call for Papers
The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. What are our obligations…
“Have We a New Sex Problem Here?” Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration
In November of 1920, the black newspaper The Chicago Whip ran a front-page article with…
Televising the Revolution: Turn’s Peggy Shippen Arnold
Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented…
From the Archives… Women’s History
In a 1990 Journal of American History piece, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recounted her experiences working…
How to Train an Obstetrician: Lessons from the Chicago Maternity Center
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands concerned about reproductive healthcare in the Trump…
Women Unite! Lessons from 1977 for 2017
Forty years ago, in a very different political climate, when the Republican and Democratic Parties…