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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OCTOBER 12, 1492 & 2026: THE COLUMBUS CONTROVERSY
Because there are few historic figures as controversial as Christopher Columbus, I’ve written about him every October. His actions and their consequences continue to create political divisions. Are we celebrating the Italian explorer who fo...
October 5, 2026: THE SUPREMES: WOMEN & THE SUPREME COURT
Today is the First Monday in October, the day the Supreme Court opens its annual term. Congress set the date in 1916, to correspond with the end of summer in Washington, then a Southern city long before air-conditioning. Since 1953, when th...
LOOSE ENDS, 10.2.26
Hello from Tennessee, where Harry Burn cast the vote that secured ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, in August 1920, because his mother told him to “be a good boy” and vote for woman suffrage. There is a statue of the pair in Knoxvil...
SENATE SISTERHOOD, 9.25.2026
The recent deaths of Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem overshadowed another passing. The death on August 21 of former Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, a moderate Republican, was not announced on the front page of national newspape...
MISS AMERICA, September 7-8, 1921, 1968, 1983, 2026
The 1920s expanded the expectations and images of American women. They included flappers and feminists, aviators and “It Girls,” girl detectives like Nancy Drew, Betty Crocker and bathing beauties. Almost all of them were white women.
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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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