The Myth of Seneca Falls
If women’s history is covered at all in our androcentric courses at school, it tends to occupy only a few paragraphs, maybe one chapter, of our textbooks. With most of the story omitted, how...
Tagged: Henry (Harry) B. Blackwell
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women by Elizabeth Blackwell
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s memoir, Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, describes in delicious detail her adventures and misadventures as she sought to become the first American women to be admitted to...
Birthdays of America’s First Suffragists
It has been nearly 100 years since the Nineteenth Amendment gave (most) American women the right to vote and it took about a hundred years of activism to win that right. The first...
Book Launch Scheduled for June 4, 2019: America’s First Feminists
The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, will inform modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. What can modern...
