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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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.
Repu...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2026: GLORIA STEINEM: Gloria in Excelsis
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, at age ninety-two.
She had been on the front lines of the fight for equal rights for six decades. The journalist and activist supported farm workers, civil rights, women’s rights and reproduc...
8.31.26: LOOSE ENDS
I’m drafting this summary in the Sierra Nevadas, where I’ve been hiking in Yosemite National Park. It is stunningly beautiful, dramatic, serene, vast and overwhelming. One runs out of adjectives to describe the granite cliffs, sequoia grove...
AUGUST 28, 1955: EMMETT TILL: MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI
This essay about Emmett Till’s murder describes racial violence and sharp divisions in our country’s past. That legacy lingers. Seventy years ago, an account of the murder was purposely distorted by a supposedly reputable journalist. Only r...
AUGUST 26, 1920: THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT: “ON ACCOUNT OF SEX”
Thursday, August 26, 1920, began early for President Wilson’s Secretary of State. Bainbridge Colby awoke at 3:42 a.m., when a telephone call from his Solicitor General announced that Tennessee’s formal notice of ratification of the woman su...
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