#Suffrage

Simmons Suffragists

SimmonsSuffrage

Our virtual @SimmonsUniv #suffrage march continues w MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD, a prolific author, labor activist & #suffragist who supported her family from a young age. She understood that education &

Steven Pinker

sapinker

On the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, we should savor and protect the Long Peace that has followed. Contrary to many expert predictions, eg Einstein, CP

Doctor Clune

erinclune

In 2005/6, I taught a seminar for BPI at Eastern Correctional Facility on one 728-page book: Black Reconstruction in America, by WEB Du Bois. I’ve been rereading my worn old

Chris Dier

chrisdier

The election of 1876 was a contested election with no clear winner the next day. This election occurred during Reconstruction--the era after the Civil War which was marked by large-scale

Sarah #killthebill Stook 🦆

sarah_stook

#WomensVote100 #19thamendment let’s say a thank you to the best women in American politics: Founding Mothers like First Lady Abigail Adams, poet Phillis Wheatley, writer Mercy Otis Warren

Ellen McDermott

HeyNell

A book I’m really looking forward to this year is a new biography of Ida B Wells, written by her great-granddaughter. I have it in pre-order.https://twitter.com/michelleduster/status/1335333855075643395 Right now, I’m reading

Tom Scriven 🚩

pigs_meat

Late publicizing this but I had an article in the Labour History Review last year about how Chartists split from Radical-Liberals to form the first independent working-class electoral party in

Erin You Ain't Pro Life Without A Mask

chargrille

This wasn't a "guardrail": it was dumb luck."with much of the GOP’s leadership class...empowering Trump to lay waste to the country’s foundational democratic norms, an obscure lawyer from west Michigan

Al Jazeera English

AJEnglish

Amid a global uprising against racism, there has been increased interest in learning about forgotten figures in history.Here are five Black Britons whose stories are rarely told https://aje.io/ccbd8 Fanny Eaton

Arj P.

nesciendi

Have been bingeing @moreofcomment this weekend, specifically on social psych’s myopia wrt. the is–ought gap, and I’m struck again by the fact that the discipline broadly seems to have forgotten

Kate Long

volewriter

#VintageMagTweets tonight come from this Punch book of Women's Rights. The publishing date is 1967. It's a straightforward look at the history of female rights up to and including suffrage.

Holly Guise ❄️

hollyguise

This is so cool! Check out the Google doodle today! Artist Michaela Goade (Tlingit) designed this gorgeous depiction of Elizabeth Peratrovich 1/Google honors civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich with

Ronan Crowley

Yellworque

Did Joyce ever actually say this? Yes, he did! Sort of. (1/8)https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1351606102056726532 In June 1926, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington attended the 10th Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Paris.

Merle Massie, PhD ☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦

merlemassie

With the strong #BlackLivesMatter and #IndigenousLivesMatter movements, I thought I'd help by addressing some of the popularized misconceptions around Indigenous people and prairie farming. We know that serious systemic

Stand With Black Women

jennycblack

One hundred years ago today, August 18, 1920, a mighty drama culminated in the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution which gave white women the right to

Rage Against the Machine Updates

RATMupdates

For those confused- currently we know that Rage has partnered with The Ummah Chroma for a film on race and ethnicity/ identity in the United States. Shots have already included

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