Category: Gender

The Once and Only 19th Amendment Centennial Course: A Blog: The Rise & Early Transformations of the Suffrage Movement

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 […]

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The Once and Only 19th Amendment Centennial Course: A 2020 Blog: Women’s Political Activism to the Civil War

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

January 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm

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 […]

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

January 31, 2020 at 11:48 am

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 […]

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