Monthly Archives: January 2020

The Once & Only 19th Amendment Centennial Course: A 2020 Blog Citizenship as Republican Motherhood Minus Rights

Week 2. It is not possible to understand the rise of women’s rights movements, including the suffrage movements, without first understanding the situation women faced in the historical lead-up to that period. This is especially important because we can be sure that very few students have any background in women’s history. They haven’t begun to […]

The Once & Only 19th Amendment Centennial Course: A 2020 Blog: Introduction

First Week. My students had required reading for our first meeting: the wonderful catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery exhibit, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. The first three chapters and the associated discussion served as a kind of trailer for the whole course. Lisa Tetrault’s “To fight by remembering, or the making of […]

The Once & Only 19th Amendment Centennial Course: A 2020 Blog Preface

Having decided to commit self-torture by designing and teaching a whole new course for my second-to-last course before retirement, I decided to share the experience.  Our investments in courses usually pay off through the successive iterations of teaching them. That won’t happen here. Further, most of the time most of us teach courses for which […]