These snippets about American women, stitching together individuals and events, create a colorful quilt from the patchwork of our history, weaving a tapestry from many strands, knitting connections, perhaps mending the fabric of our democracy with facts.
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August 19, 1958: COUNTER HISTORY: CLARA LUPER & THE OKLAHOMA CITY SIT-IN
Like many retail outlets across the South in the 1950s, Katz Drug Stores, “The World’s Leading Cut Rate Drug Store,” served African Americans in its pharmacy and aisles, but not at its lunch counter. They could order bag lunches to take out...
August 12, 1859: KATHARINE LEE BATES & "America the Beautiful"
Because we share an alma mater, I’ve known that Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem which became the lyrics of a beloved American anthem, “America the Beautiful.” Congressional resolutions to substitute it for the “Stars Spangled Banner” hav...
LOOSE ENDS: 8.5.26
Please excuse a brief pause in posts. Your author has been distracted by caring for my adorable grand girl, who couldn’t go to daycare because she had a temperature, and by a still busted freezer compressor. I had planned to report on the i...
JULY 19-20, 1848: SENECA FALLS
From Betsy: Voting rights for all Americans are being challenged. The president has claimed, without evidence, that there is widespread voter fraud. The Supreme Court has limited the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The House has...
LOOSE ENDS, 7.11.2026
Dear Readers: I may have made an etymological error, by calling these collections of your comments LOOSE ENDS. It did not occur to me until today to check the meaning of the phrase. Webster’s defines it as “unfinished business, something le...
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An independent historian, activist, and author of IN HER OWN RIGHT: THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, and FORMIDABLE: AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, "an engaging, multiracial, profoundly illuminating tour de force." (NYTimes)
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