Blog | Tiffany K Wayne, PhD - Random Musings on Reading & Writing

Attack of the 90-foot Suffragette

The mostly true story of Miss Panama Pankhurst Imogene Equality For the past few months I have been researching the activities of the...

April 2022: Western Association of Women Historians Conference

In April I had the wonderful opportunity to present my research on suffragists at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International...

Holiday Leftovers

You remember how, when you are going away for the summer, and the last evening you open up the refrigerator and take out all the...

August 2021: Concord Days Video

I'm excited to share this extended interview I did with my friend, Tamara Rose, host of the Concord Days video series about all things...

Mapping the Geographic & Racial Lines of U.S. Women's Suffrage

Every day I sit down at my computer and stare at this poster on the wall across from my desk: The Awakening, by artist Henry Mayer,...

July 2021 Thoreau Annual Gathering

As part of a fabulous panel on "Woman Questions" at the 2021 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, I presented on another women's rights...

A Month in the Life of a Women's Historian; or, On the Road with the Suffragists

Another Women’s History Month has come and gone. Of course, I think about and do women’s history all year long! So what does it look like...

Black Women, the ERA, and How We Talk About Suffrage History

On February 15, 1921, suffrage advocates gathered in the nation’s Capitol to dedicate a statue of the whitest marble to three white women...

Jewish Women & Suffrage in the United States

I’ve been thinking quite a bit, as always, about diverse actors in the U.S. women’s suffrage movement and about the ways that differently...

Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come - Reflecting on our Pandemic Year

This morning as I went about some of my Christmas Eve preparation and chores, I listened along to this "History of Literature" podcast...