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Cathleen D. Cahill

@cathleendcahill.bsky.social
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Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New SHGAPE @shgape.bsky.social episode alert! In which Boyd Cothran and I talk to Michael Childers about his remarkable new book, _The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park_ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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125: The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
Podcast Episode · The Gilded Age and Progressive Era · September 23 · 1h 6m
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big congratulations to all these fantastic scholars! I especially want to shout out my @shgape.bsky.social podcast co-host, Boyd Cothran!
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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Check out this new podcast— WORKING HISTORY—bringing labor history to you and connecting it to the present. A collaboration between Southern Labor Studies Assoc, LAWCHA, LABOR, and ILWCH. Dropping tomorrow! On apple and spotify. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Working History
History Podcast · Working History is a podcast brought to you by labor history organizations and journals, where we discuss labor issues past and present.
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this week’s @shgape.bsky.social I had a wonderful time talking to Maria E. Montoya about her wonderful new book, _A Workplace of Their Own: Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor’s Battle over Industrial Democracy_ from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gildedageand...
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124: A Workplace of their Own: Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle Over Industrial Democracy | The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
with María E. Montoya
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Boyd and I are back with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (SHGAPE) Podcast!!
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123: Magic Lantern Art with Terry Borton
Podcast Episode · The Gilded Age and Progressive Era · August 26 · 57m
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
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Assistant Professor
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A program that has worked so well. Teen pregnancy rates have dropped all-time lows.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Supreme Court ended our constitutional right to abortion 4 years ago today. In #AHAPerspectives, we've covered this across several articles (and several years). Linda Kerber wrote in the immediate aftermath.
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Frightened – AHA
After more than 50 years as a historian, Linda K. Kerber worries about the future of legal protections in the United States.
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is cracking me up! 😂
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sorry to miss #HATM tonight, but have some family celebrations going on. Enjoy the film.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A few hours left to submit a comment on this monstrosity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New blog post in our IEHS blog - Not from Here - this time featuring undergraduate students! "Patriotic Transformations in Philadelphia Chinatown" by David Deng iehs.org/patriotic-tr...
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Patriotic Transformations in Philadelphia Chinatown
This excerpt is a part of the Not From Here blog series highlighting sections of undergraduate students’ research. IEHS recognizes the intellectual labor involved in undergraduate research an…
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“On May 1, 1865, the freed people of Charleston, South Carolina, gathered at the old racetrack to decorate the graves of 257 Union prisoners of war who had been hastily buried by the retreating Confederate army.” #MemorialDay 🗃️ www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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African American Contributions to Memorial Day (U.S. National Park Service)
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Turns out I wasn’t following @laurarprieto.bsky.social and missed many of her awesome #hatm posts last night! Was happy to catch up this morning. Thanks again, all!
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Prieto & our own @foodandarchives both worked on The Mary Eliza Project www.simmons.edu/news/mary-el... #HATM 6/
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The Mary Eliza Project Recognizes Boston's First Women Voters | Simmons University
Faculty and students at Simmons have joined to create the Mary Eliza Project, transcribing voter registers to create a searchable database of the more than 50,000 women who registered to vote in Bosto...
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
1. @ 2. favorite suffragist (to research): Clemencia López, whom I wrote about here www.jstor.org/stable/43902... (reprinted in the most recent Unequal Sisters) 3. banana bread w chocolate chips #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“We need a march, the first of its kind in Washington DC” Marching on Washington was already a thing before 1913 – like the unemployed protestors known as Coxey’s Army in 1894. See the suffrage march chapter in @lucyg2024.bsky.social's wonderful book www.ucpress.edu/flyer/books/... #hatm #suffs
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Marching on Washington by Lucy Barber - Paper
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
No horse but check out the hats on the Oakland, California, suffrage marchers from 1908. #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"never been done," hmmm.... About 300 women marched in the U.S.’s very first suffrage parade, in Oakland, California, in August 1908. 3000 women took part in the New York suffrage march that same year. #Hatm #suffs localwiki.org/oakland/Wome... suffrageandthemedia.org/source/march...
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
BTW the recurring #suffs slogan "Finish the Fight" is the title of a great suffrage history for younger readers by Veronica Chambers! bookshop.org/p/books/fini... #HATM #FinishTheFight
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just love the purple, gold & white cover of the 1913 suffrage march program! Those #suffs knew how to do a pageant. #Hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fun fact: Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr for 3 years. Also: Wilson’s first wife Ellen Louise Axson was an artist who helped his academic research by translating scholarship from German into English. She died in 1914, leaving Wilson a widower in the White House. #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ah, it's Wilson's take on "Pretty Women" without the creepy undertone. #hatm #suffs #SweeneyTodd
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
though I eventually learned that many English suffrage activists often also rejected the radical term "suffragette" -- and that some radical Americans embraced it. #hatm
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Caitlyn Jones @caitlynjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Deadly Political Index! Alice and the NWP took this strategy from NAWSA and kept it up for the suffrage amendment and the ERA.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Can we talk about how states had been passing Married Women's Property Acts since 1839 (Mississippi)? MWPA were one of the first agenda items, and victories, of the women's rights movement. Coverture just was not as ubiquitous by 1913 as #suffs would have us think. #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is my favorite staging/structural move in #suffs. Instead of hearing Paul’s speech, we only hear Catt’s simultaneous inner monologue. Catt had a lot to be proud of, having re-energized the stalled out, divided suffrage movement as a vibrant strategist in her long presidency of NAWSA. #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Someday they’ll name it after me” said Alva Belmont, and they did. The Belmont House (now a National Parks Service site). www.nps.gov/bepa/learn/h... #hatm #suffs
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History of the House - Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Not Kewpie dolls”! But the dolls' creator artist Rose O’Neill was a suffragist and she made her Kewpies explicitly suffragists www.smithsonianmag.com/history/prol... #hatm #suffs
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The Prolific Illustrator Behind Kewpies Used Her Cartoons for Women’s Rights
Rose O’Neill started a fad and became a leader of a movement
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mr President, how long must women wait for liberty? Image: suffrage pickets outside the White House in 1917, #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I love following along on the @librarycongress.bsky.social timeline while I watch #Suffs www.loc.gov/collections/... #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"The Young Are at the Gates" -- so were the old! Over 2000 women picketed the White House to demand suffrage. About 500 were arrested (given, you know, free speech, a popular charge was obstruction of traffic). 168 served prison terms. #hatm #suffs
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I did not know this before but the NWP held a memorial service for Inez Millholland in 1924 and wouldn't let Black women attend 🤦‍♀️ her dad stood up at the service and basically was like "wtf, she advocated they be part of your big march and she wouldnt have wanted this." #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
FWIW St Elizabeth’s Asylum (mentioned in a passing threat in #suffs) offered the latest in mental health care; its architecture w lots of natural light & good air circulation was designed to promote healing. @srabigail.bsky.social curated fab exhibit on St E's nbm.org/exhibitions/... #hatm
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Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852–2017 | National Building Museum
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Food will win the war” went the slogan in #WW1. Good Housekeeping magazine in 1917 called for women to become… “kitchen soldiers.” The women's magazine dared to compare women’s war service on the homefront with that of men on the battlefield. #hatm #suffs www.whobuiltamerica.org/item/patriot...
Good Housekeeping magazine cover showing a woman in a form-fitting olive green uniform, looking at herself in the mirror
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Alice Paul: "I'll go insane" #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Jailed for freedom" - they later toured the country from Charleston to NY on a special train named the “Democracy Limited,” speaking to crowds while wearing their prison uniforms. They wore special jaildoor pins as a badge of honor. #hatm #suffs
silver pin in the shape of a prison door
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wearing white was another conscious political, visual suffragist tactic. It not only invoked feminine purity but – as I learned from @allisonklange.bsky.social and her book "Picturing Political Power" – it was a savvy choice because it showed up vividly in press photos. #hatm #suffs
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Picturing Political Power
Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history. For as long as women have battled for equitable politi...
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Lifting as we climb" was the motto of the National Association of Colored Women, long led by the elegant Mary Church Terrell (photo portrait below). "Nice dress." #hatm #suffs
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
You can learn about the queer history of the suffrage movement here. #HATM nyupress.org/978147981394...
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Public Faces, Secret Lives
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle FinalistRestores queer suffragists to their ri...
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#suffs needs some sequels. Neither women nor men in Guam had voting rights until the federal U.S. government passed the Guam Organic Act in 1950. American Samoa first enacted universal suffrage through its federally recognized Constitution in 1967. #hatm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Women in the Philippines had to win the right to vote twice. A federal act in 1934 swept away a Philippine women's suffrage law passed the year before. Filipina women had to affirm they really wanted suffrage in their own separate plebiscite in 1937. Image: Sofia de Veyra #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Suffragists kept marching on after 1920: Women in Puerto Rico could not vote until the passage of legislation in 1929, and even then suffrage was limited to literate women until 1935. Image: labor & suffrage activist Luisa Capetillo www.oah.org/process/prie... #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#hatm if you love #suffs history, check out the @maryelizaproject.bsky.social, a digital humanities project researching the *54k women* in Boston who rushed to register to vote between August & November 1920. Their stories will surprise & delight you! And our dataset is there for YOU to explore!
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
yes, suffragist & labor activist Luisa Capetillo is wearing a suit in that photo. She had previously had been arrested, in her native Puerto Rico, for wearing pants. (Is it too much to want a female character to wear pants in #suffs?) #hatm
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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
She fought segregated restaurants in DC at advanced age. While her legal battle raged, interesting note- digitized archives include a small invite card to White House. She doesn't show up on official/public schedule that date - but later that evening, Truman gave commencement speech at Howard.
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Michelle Strattard @chellestrat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Since I’m on a Maine suffrage kick, here is Lucy Nicolar Poolaw, voting for the first time in 1954 when Maine finally allowed Native Americans to vote. She was a member of the Penobscot nation and active in the suffrage movement. Suffs leaves this part out. #hatm
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