At the inception of 2021, I’d like to celebrate a feminist who I’ve recently re-discovered, one who I’m committed to resurrecting. That’s not to say that I don’t admire the usual suspects of 2020. After […]
A creative resurgence of the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Category: Historical Scholarship
“Steamy Love Letters”: Re-Discovering the Poetry of Ina E. Gittings
Typed on what are now 100-year-old pages, a handful of poems discovered in an attic offer a glimpse of the inner life of Ina E. Gittings (1885-1966). Gittings’ archival presence covers several states in the […]
The History of Feminist Zines: The Woman’s Journal
The Woman’s Journal, the longest running suffrage journal in America, was born in Boston on January 8th 1870 under the editorship of Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry Browne Blackwell. Perhaps what’s most interesting to […]
The History of Feminist Zines: The Una
Born in Providence, Rhode Island in February of 1853, The Una was edited by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis for the first two years of its existence. It eventually relocated to Boston and endured for another […]
The History of Feminist Zines: The Lily
Founded in 1849, The Lily is considered the first feminist paper run entirely for and by women. Though it began as a community-based temperance journal (i.e. zine), within a few years, thanks to both the […]
The Long Before #MeToo Project
The Long Before #MeToo project grew out of a student query in one of Dr. Pamela Stewart’s Fall 2016 women’s history courses on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University. After reading Harriet Jacobs’ […]
‘O, hear my knock and let me in’: The Lost Poetry of Ina E. Gittings
As we assess the historical record as part of the project that is The Revolution (Relaunch), it can be useful to acknowledge the shifting role of language in uncovering — or rendering invisible — a […]
Word for the future: ACTIVHISTorian
Over 150 years ago, The Revolution’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton told women: “I challenge you to dare and do anything.” I don’t know that she ever considered “becoming historians” part of her challenge, but she might […]
The Speculum: A Brief History of Medicine without Humanities
Consider the speculum. Roughly half of us are personally familiar with this device. At the same time, it’s likely that the other half do not even know of its existence. Even as a material object, […]
Historical Newspapers as Activist Resources
As you peruse your copy of the October 29, 1892 edition of The Washington Bee, a newspaper owned and operated by African Americans in the segregated world of the nation’s capital, you will notice an […]
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