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5 Cs of History

The Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger

There are few individuals in American history with as divided a legacy as Margaret Sanger. For many, she was a pioneer of women’s health, an important birth control activist, and founder of Planned Parenthood. For others, Sanger represents the immorality of feminism and insidious evil of reproductive choice. Yet others Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 weeks4 days ago
Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on them in protest. Looking on as part of the crowd are Red Hydrick, seen in the upper left wearing a hat and eyeglasses, and teenager D. C. Sullivan, who is in the middle of the crowd smoking a cigarette.
5 Cs of History

Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi

Published in 1968, Anne Moody’s autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi details her journey from a cotton plantation in the deep south to becoming a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. At times heartbreaking and other times inspiring, Moody’s memoir explores how an individual faced with enormous– and seemingly insurmountable Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 3 weeks2 weeks ago
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Nina Otero-Warren: Suffrage and Strategy in New Mexico

“Spanish American” Nina Otero-Warren (1881-1965) was a suffragist, Progressive educator, woman’s club member, public health and social welfare board member, and writer. She worked for formal and informal mediation between Hispanos, Anglo Americans, and Indians. She was instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, was the first Hispanic woman Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 4 months4 months ago
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Producer's Choice

Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th and 19th Century America

Today, we’re talking about the history of poor relief and child welfare in the United States. Transcript for: Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th and 19th century America Sarah: Recently, I was on a research trip in Albany, NY, sifting my way through hundreds of records men institutionalized at two Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 5 months5 months ago
Spiritualism

Anna Howard Shaw: Doctor, Reverend, Suffragist Leader

The years 1896-1910 of the American woman’s suffrage movement are sometimes referred to as the doldrums because of an apparent lack of progress during the years. However, revised scholarship has shown that these were in fact the years where a lot of uncelebrated work was done for the cause. Today Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 6 months5 months ago
The Second Great Awakening, 1839
Spiritualism

The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening

Elijah Pierson was the embodiment of early 19th century Christian masculinity. So how did he end up, just a few years later, shambling along the streets of New York City with a scruffy beard, long hair, and dirty fingernails, following a wild eyed prophet? And – perhaps more disturbing – Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 7 months5 months ago
Fox Sisters Mediums
Spiritualism

Spectacle and Spiritualism in the Lives of Maggie and Kate Fox

The Fox sister’s story has been told hundreds of times, in autobiography, newspaper stories, biographies, histories of Spiritualism, Victorian entertainment, women’s rights movements, and many other contexts. Today we’re going to share some insights into Maggie and Kate Fox’s life, how their stories have been told, and why the way Read more…

By Averill Earls, 7 months7 months ago
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Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan

This is a special episode researched and written by one of our interns, Olivia Langa. To find out more about the everyday lives of women in coal mining families we must look at the songs of less popular female Appalachian singers from the 1930s. One such place to look is Read more…

By Olivia Langa, 9 months9 months ago
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Elections

1968: A Tumultuous American Year

1968 was an extremely turbulent and painful year in the United States of America. The Vietnam War was in full swing, as well as the protest movement against it. Gallup Poll results in February of 1968 showed that fully half of the American populace disapproved of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years1 year ago
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Elections

Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876

The consequences of 1876 were enormous. To end the the election limbo, Democratic and Republican politicians worked out a shadowy deal in which Rutherford Hayes was declared the president (by one electoral vote!) and the Republicans agreed to end Reconstruction in the former Confederacy. The results of the “Compromise of Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 months ago

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