March 30, 2020 at 3:13 pm
A working paper in Time of Coronavirus: “Fires, Epidemics, Natural Disasters, & Higher Education: A Brief Sketch.” Comments, criticisms, additional info welcome. RECURRING THREATS TO HIGHER EDUCATION
March 27, 2020 at 12:47 pm
Week 9: This week continues our discussion of the impact of the 19th Amendment and women’s enfranchisement, this time turning from women, partisanship, and voting, to women in elected and appointed office in the century since the Amendment was ratified. What progress has been made? This was also our second week as on online class. […]
March 18, 2020 at 6:49 pm
Week 8 Well, the world has changed. Spring break is over and this is the first week we worked remotely using Zoom in the new C-19 world. Thanks to all my students who were great partners in this new venture. Proud to work with them. Now that we have the 19th Amendment in place (in […]
March 15, 2020 at 11:19 am
Week 7 And finally, in week 7 of the course, we focus on the campaign for the 19th Amendment. By now it should be clear that a crucial story of the 19th Amendment is how much of the 19th-century story of the struggle for gender equality in citizenship was only indirectly related to the amendment […]
March 2, 2020 at 11:50 am
A blast from the past article about how folks think they’re ok …. it’s everyone else. NewsfromtheFront
February 26, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Week 6 First up on this week’s agenda was finishing the discussion from last week. The theme was women’s political activism throughout the period from roughly 1870 until the ratification of the 19th Amendment other than suffrage movement activism per se. Different students had read articles focusing on different times, different groups of women, different […]
February 19, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Week 5 This week we continued with the topic from last week – the rise and transformation of woman suffrage movement – then turned to a discussion of some of the varieties of ways women were active in and had influence on politics (other than suffrage activism) from the Civil War up to the ratification […]
February 14, 2020 at 11:12 am
Week 4 The rise of an independent woman suffrage movement is a fascinating story of transformation of the anti-slavery movement and the ensuing conflict within interlinked social movements over priorities, values, and strategies, all conditioned by national and regional politics and the rise of the American party system. Today we went back to the anti-slavery […]
February 5, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Week 3 Most discussion of the woman suffrage movement, or even the broader women’s rights movement, tends to take that activism out of context. Perhaps there is some discussion of leaders who previously participated in the abolition movement, but the rich development of political activism tends to be invisible. This week’s work was designed to […]
January 31, 2020 at 12:07 pm
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 […]
