Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
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Cassandra Good
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This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books.
We need more of this from our electeds.
This is terrible, and on the eve of the 250th. What a loss. His contributions to our understanding of the Revolution are incalculable. And he was an amazing writer, too.
The Supreme Court is playing a central role in the overthrow of the Second Reconstruction - just as it did in the overthrow of the first.
Color blindness has been used to excuse and justify both. 1/
“how long must women wait for liberty?” was on the signs suffragists brought to protest in front of the White House in 1917.
Spoiler alert: they were also the last words Ines Milholland uttered publicly…
Rest in Power, Ines. America’s suffrage martyr.
#hatm #suffs
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
Andy Craig
First time seeing Suffs and I love this song centered on the phrase "Find a way"--the motto of my all-girls high school, Holton-Arms (founded 1901), is inveniam viam aut faciam--I will find a way or make one.
#HATM
My favorite is a deep cut from early in the movement--Clarina Nichols. She was witty, sarcastic, pragmatic, fearless--all behind a public persona as a pious mother. Check out the 2010 bio of her, Frontier Feminist #HATM
Stephen West
Check out this fun conversation between @sarageorgini.bsky.social, me, and the Boston sisters on John & Abigail Adams, friendship, and women's political power 🗃️
www.michonbostongroup.com/bostonsister...
Teaching about Reconstruction the day after the Callais decision feels like a gut punch. It also makes it very easy to tell students that this history matters a LOT today. 🗃️
Things that make grading less of a chore: one of my students wrote a particularly harsh burn about the Whigs in his exam: "they're like the Washington Generals of American history, right?"
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The Boston Sisters spotlight the HBO miniseries JOHN ADAMS , based on David McCullough's biography of the 2nd U.S. President. Historians Cassandra Good ( Founding Friendships ) and Sara Georgi...
