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Laura R. Prieto

@laurarprieto.bsky.social
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writer, historian, feminist scholar | firstgen to PhD | Latina daughter of immigrants | many languages spoken | co-directing the Mary Eliza Project & writing about women's suffrage movements across U.S. empire

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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join Us! We will be at the Nichols House Museum in #Boston this Wednesday to discuss the new 1920 Women Voters of Ward 8 (parts of #BeaconHillBoston and #BackBayBoston). More information is available at the link below. #BostonHistory #19thAmendment www.nicholshousemuseum.org/events/the-m...
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The Mary Eliza Project - nicholshousemuseum.org
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 6:00 pm
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love theme reading for travel. In Spanish or translated to English?
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
WCVB reporter Leanna Scachetti interviewed me & Marta Crilly about our @maryelizaproject.bsky.social a while back; today the story aired. Happy primary day to Boston! Let’s use our hard-won rights and vote!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026
Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one Learning another language could slow ageing in the brain by up to 13 years, according to research. People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains and the more languages you speak and the earlier you speak them, the better, according to findings from a study being presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona. Continue reading...
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Before backyard barbecues and fireworks, Americans celebrated the Fourth of July with cannons, bonfires, and speeches that brought communities together. This Independence Day, we’re looking back at how holiday traditions have evolved over 250 years. → www.historicnewengland.org/the-glorious...
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The Glorious Fourth | Historic New England
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I remain very enamored with this piece about a Black suffragette from my hometown of Tacoma, Washington
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mariah Gruner’s writing is always stunningly beautiful.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“The coat is an argument. With that elegant coat, Asberry insists that we recognize the labor and skill required in women’s domestic textile work, the relevance of Black women to the history of the Pacific Northwest, and the compatibility between suffrage politics and performed femininity.” oh wow
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The negative reading of that stat is that men were getting well paid jobs w a HS education and did not need to invest in the college degree for upward mobility. Women had become the majority of HS grads around 1880 btw. But higher ed served women well in multiple ways! It gave them choices.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I am delighted to be in historic Buffalo for #AAHM2026. I felt especially welcome when Emma Wathen mentioned #OurBodiesOurselves at the very first panel I attended (a session on Disability and Reproduction in the US). image: view of downtown Buffalo
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NPR @npr.org · 25/05/2026
The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."
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In the 'biggest book giveaway in history' WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads
The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I think one thing the AI age has taught me is how many of my colleagues: 1. genuinely hate writing. 2. are bad at writing. 3. are bad at assessing writing. 4. really do not care about how the writing gets done. Which seems bad, because writing=thinking.
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I've seen 
@ATabarrok
 and some other folks recently joke that they're using Pangram to filter out the human-written content. Funny, except this is increasingly more true than funny: AI-assisted writing is often the more readable kind, and especially so in academia.
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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Do you have a favorite red? (Do you know its Pantone number?) Submit it for inclusion in The Second Color of Printing, an exhibition opening this fall in NYC: secondcolor.org All accepted entrants will receive an honorarium!
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The Second Color Of Printing
Explore Memorial Exhibit Printing services honoring Michael Josefowicz, featuring the color red in unique designs.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’ve enjoyed eating at Clover Food Lab since it was a wee truck parked at lunchtime on a side street near my campus. It thrived & spread thru Boston. Bringing fresh farm-to-table to fast casual eating. Now the whole business is suddenly closing & leaving a hole in my heart & stomach.
exterior view of a Clover restaurant
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🔥 “the encyclical importantly reframes technological power as part of a much larger struggle over who gets to define and control human lives… AI as a grave threat to human dignity and the latest point on a much longer timeline of domination,” dependent on a new slave labor to function. #mustread
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The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Support our libraries!
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I still sometimes can't believe this is happening
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Putting the call out to the Historians at the Movies community (& to all who love #cinema). Ideas re more female-led, female-centered films & shows we could watch on Sunday nites? Last nite's viewing of #SUFFS & the conversation were amazing. #HATM #skystorians @academic-chatter.bsky.social #movies
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I would be remiss not to note here that the violence suffragists faced from hecklers and the police was part of what motivated many (especially the suffragettes in Britain) to study jiu-jitsu and boxing. #HATM
Woman demonstrating use of a jiu-jitsu armbar to subdue an attacker.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, @phdrachel.bsky.social! Here are some of my women's suffrage history projects: www.oah.org/process/prie... www.jstor.org/stable/43902... threadreaderapp.com/thread/12736... beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/exh...
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The Women's Suffrage Movement in a College Community · Suffrage at Simmons
This site explores how Simmons College students, faculty, staff, and other community members engaged with the women's suffrage movement.
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Commenting on #hatm #suffs last night was so fun! Thanks again to @phdrachel.bsky.social for recruiting me to take part. I am writing a book on women's suffrage activism across U.S. empire, before & after 1920. I also co-direct the @maryelizaproject.bsky.social sky.social w @archifydd.bsky.social
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It was incredibly important! Just not without precedent. A quantum leap in scale and complexity (bringing together pageant and parade, for instance). But rooted in a longer history of protest marches, both by suffragists elsewhere and by other movements like labor.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Morning re-reading: Stephanie Syjuco, ‘The Unruly Archive’ 🤓
Cover of Stephanie Syjuco’s The Unruly Archive — it is designed to look like an archival folder“This book simulates a type of forensics. 

Like the process of physically excavating an archive … a search through a body that was embalmed and catalogued years ago.  In this case it simulates what it is like to piece together a vision of an entire country of people — the Philippines, Filipinos, and by extension Filipino Americans — through the lens of the American colonial archive.”A historical photo of a woman — her face is obscured by a person’s fingersDefinitions of unruly (disorderly and disruptive) and archive (a place where … historical documents are kept)
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks! We found each other now!
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Workin' Moms: Best Friends Reunited
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell cofounded the NACW in 1896, along with Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Harriet Tubman, and Margaret Murray Washington. It was the first national organization for Black women in the U.S. Their motto unified them across many differences: "Lifting as We Climb."
The words "Lifting as we climb" on a Purple banner with yellow fringe
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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A Thousand Percent Jill Zarin
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Janet Lindenmuth @janetlindenmuth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
She actually only used the name Ruza Wenclawska (or Ruza Wenclaw) when she started acting and publishing poetry. During the suffrage movement she used the Americanized version of her name, Rose Winslow. The musical probably uses her Polish name to emphasize her status as an immigrant. #hatm
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Herstorian Jubilada @grrlherstorian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wilson's racism makes the cross-race casting of Malone jarring (for lack of a better term). I think one needs to know about Wilson's actions and legacy for it to work--and know more than perhaps most people do #HATM #Suffs
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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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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The idea of Wilson who famously segregated the fed govt having a Black chief of staff is laughable. But Dudley Malone is a fascinating character who would go on to be part of the Clarence Darrow defense team in the #ScopesTrial #HATM #Suffs #PBSGreatPerformances en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_...
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Dudley Field Malone - Wikipedia
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
After her husband died in 1905, Catt was with Mollie for 38 years. They were buried together. #HATM #SUFFS
Carrie Chapman Catt and Mollie Garrett Hay
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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
Thank you for getting us together, @phdrachel.bsky.social! It was so much fun watching #suffs with all of you and #hatm! Now, excuse me, I have a lot of comments to go back and read, from when I was frantically trying to keep up with the conversation.
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Woman Frantically Typing on an Old Typewriter
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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
#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
You wouldn't know from #suffs or most published suffrage histories but 1920 was not the end of the suffrage movement in the U.S. The 19th Amendment simply did not apply to the colonial possessions of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. #hatm www.oah.org/process/prie...
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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
"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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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
You know that better than anybody! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=87...
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Dressed for Freedom
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It wasn't a telegram but a letter. One of the most important in women's history. Febb Burn wrote to her son, Now Harry be a good boy and let your mother have the right to vote. Don’t underestimate what can result from one person taking a stand. msmagazine.com/2025/08/22/w... #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Black women *did* vote in states like Illinois, NY, and California even before 1920. And some Black women successfully wielded the 19th Amendment to vote in other states despite all the obstacles that white supremacists concocted. Let’s be careful not to erase that. #hatm #suffs
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
that's so interesting -- an important distinction!
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@michelleduster.bsky.social raised the funds for and coordinated an incredible mural commemorating Ida B. Wells and other Illinois suffragists #Suffs #HATM www.chicagowomenshistory.org/suffrage-mural
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Suffrage Mural — Chicago Women's History Center
We are thrilled to partner with Michelle Duster, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and Columbia College to support the Suffrage Mural project in downtown Chicago created by the ar...
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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
Very appropriate companion reading to the coven vibes in the choreography as the radical #suffs "let the fire rage" #hatm
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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
“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
There are also chilling, graphic descriptions of force feeding in Doris Stevens' "Jailed for Freedom," the main source material for Taub's #suffs. #hatm
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