“Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.” Julia Ward Howe, 1874 Happy birthday to Julia Ward Howe, born May 27, 1819. Julia Ward Howe is one of the suffragists featured in the first Ask...
“Women need no longer be made a party to proceedings which fill the globe with grief and horror.” -Julia Ward Howe, 1870 Mothers Day did not begin as a dedicated time to shower mothers...
Writing gave her a platform for causes she believed in like feminism and pacifism (ironic for a woman best known for writing the Civil War anthem Battle Hymn of the Republic). #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via...
The book covers Julia’s feminist awakening during the 1840s, when she was secretly writing a novel about an intersex character. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B0W0hKmA6Tg/
Suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote the Hermaphrodite before her feminist awakening, while she was still young and deciding her opinions on gender issues. While writing this novel, she explored what it would be like to be less...
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...
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America's First Feminists
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Activists Who Built a Movement
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