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Thoughts on James and the Swamped History of Black Women’s Resistance
I recently rewatched Harriet (2019) starring Cynthia Erivo. I was a high school History teacher when the film first came out and I...
Aug 17


The Consent of the Governed
I recently spent a week in New Jersey on an archival research trip, looking for clues about the 1915 state suffrage campaign in NJ and...
Jul 1, 2024


All that can be thought can be written...
"The maker of a sentence like the other artist launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night." - Ralph Waldo...
May 24, 2024


Emerson in California
My review of Brian C. Wilson's book, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022) appeared in the...
May 7, 2024


A Year of Not Writing
Psychologists define major life stressors as events which bring upheaval, often challenging our identities and relationships, and...
Jan 1, 2024


Little Women Podcast
I was a special guest on an episode of the Jo’s Boys podcast with host Peyton Thomas, in which we discuss gender roles, quarantine, and...
Dec 31, 2023


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...
May 17, 2022


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...
May 11, 2022


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...
Jan 2, 2022


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...
Sep 18, 2021
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