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...
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Random Musings on Reading & Writing
May 24
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...
Jan 1
A Year of Not Writing
Psychologists define major life stressors as events which bring upheaval, often challenging our identities and relationships, and...
May 17, 2022
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...
Jan 2, 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...
Aug 31, 2021
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,...
Apr 2, 2021
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...
Feb 15, 2021
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...
Feb 1, 2021
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...
Dec 24, 2020
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...
Dec 9, 2020
A Year in Books
I set (and met) a goal of reading 52 books this year - one per week! Every reading list is so personal and mine is always a mix of newly...
Aug 26, 2020
Women's Equality Day and the Suffrage Centennial
On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was certified as part of the U.S. Constitution.
Jul 30, 2020
Transitioning to a Full-Time Writing Career
July has been an incredibly productive and creative month for me. Way back in February (pre-Covid shutdown) I gave my notice to leave my...
Jul 9, 2020
The Dignity of Voting Rights; or, How Not to Disappoint Your Mother
This week I received a surprise package of 5 copies of my new book, Women's Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the 19th Amendment, from my...
Jun 21, 2020
Flannery O'Connor
Read and enjoyed this insightful New Yorker piece on Flannery O’Connor over the weekend. The title “How Racist?” seems like the wrong...
Apr 22, 2020
Harper Lee and Civil Rights
Since I just finished re-reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" with my 9th graders, I decided to finally get around to reading the copy of "Go...
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