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Phyllis A Sears

@phyllisasears.bsky.social
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@HerstoricalMonuments (Fbk, Thrds, IG, X) is my project of mapping the statues of historical women and sharing their stories on social media.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now on at the Grinnell College Museum of Art - Abstract Expressionists: The Women www.grinnell.edu/news/abstrac... The show runs thru Jan 2, 2027
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Abstract Expressionists: The Women Comes to Grinnell
When Abstract Expressionists: The Women opens at the Grinnell College Museum of Art (GCMoA) on Sept. 17, visitors will have an opportunity to encounter an important chapter of American art history thr...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
This belongs in the Smithsonian.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One place to honor Gloria Steinem is at the corner 32nd Street and Third Ave in Manhattan. The block has been co-named for Ms Magazine that was launched on that block in 1971. www.amny.com/news/yes-way...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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Uncle Don @uncledon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ben Meiselas- Meidas Touch
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026
Can I get an amen?
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sun Valley, Idaho "the world's largest collection of female alpine champions cast in full bronze" eyeonsunvalley.com/Story_Reader...
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Our Olympic Ladies Now at Six
On Thursday 1972 Olympic medalist Susie Corrock Luby pulled the wraps off the newest bronze statue i.... READ MORE
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The next few weeks are turning out to be a cornucopia of women’s history programming in New York City. (this is me not gatekeeping) 30 July @DeadLadiesNYC doing their bi-monthly live podcast show at KGB Bar www.eventbrite.com/e/dead-ladie...
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Dead Ladies Show NYC #41
The Dead Ladies Show NYC is back on Thursday, July 30! Get out of the heat. Go undercover, spend the fortune, and bring the spirits.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Battle of Brooklyn Reenactment - 250th anniversary On the northern Long Meadow in Prospect Park Saturday 22nd August 10am-12noon www.eventbrite.com/e/battle-of-...
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Battle of Brooklyn 250th Anniversary Reenactment
Step back in time with Prospect Park Alliance for a historic re-enactment honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I have little doubt that these warnings will just make visitors even more curious to explore the Smithsonian museums. #CivilWarMemory #America250 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Trump's Smithsonian Order Is an Attempt to Control History Itself
Sidewalk signage, a hostile congressional hearing, and a playbook that already failed once
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Lucy Walker, British alpinist/mountain climber, was the first woman to climb the Matterhorn. Her sidewalk plaque is part of Zermatt's 'Walk of Climb'. That information is now part of her English Language Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Wa... And remember she climbed in a long skirt.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
100 Years of Women Who Changed History (gift article - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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100 Years of Women Who Changed History (Gift Article)
Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Elizabeth Freeman has a statue inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. And a newer statue in Sheffield Massachusetts. (Free article - no subscription necessary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Elizabeth Freeman has a statue inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. And a newer statue in Sheffield Massachusetts. (Free article - no subscription necessary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
❤️🤣
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches Augmented-Reality Experience on National Mall Celebrating Five Trailblazers Access the Experience Now at unhidden-heroines.com www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches Augmented-Reality Experience on National Mall Celebrating Five Trailblazers
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I was hoping CBS Sunday Morning would be spared the Ellison corruption but making the last episode all about Vance - my hopes were dashed.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue immortalised with riverside statue Trailblazing leader the first of six prominent Aboriginal South Australians to receive honour. www.weare.sa.gov.au/news/dr-lowi...
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Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue immortalised with riverside statue
Trailblazing leader Lowitja O'Donoghue first of six prominent Aboriginal South Australians to receive honour.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
AUSTRALIA www.latrobe.edu.au/research/res...
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Changing Who We Honour: Research Driving Gender Equity in Australia’s Public Monuments
A Monument of Ones Own
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Cartoon by @stevesack.bsky.social
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Cartoon showing a man on a branch. He is cutting it off with a saw, and will fall down with it. A sign reads Brexit reenactment, 10th anniversary celebration.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Portsmouth, New Hampshire new mural of Ona Judge www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...
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Ona Judge Escaped From Slavery While George Washington Was Busy Eating Dinner Inside. Now, a New Mural Honors Her Legacy
The artwork in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Judge arriving in the city after her journey from Philadelphia in May 1796. She remained a free woman until her death in 1848
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is one of my favorites from the Colbert show. youtu.be/aJb_zJbJ7FI?...
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Helen Mirren Reads Poetry To An Emotional Stephen Colbert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This week Historians At The Movies is singing about the history of suffrage in America. Join us on PBS this Sunday, May 24 at 8pm eastern for SUFFS. If you like a little different side of history, then share this post and keep #HATM growing. See ya there.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
When @herberthistory.bsky.social agreed to do SUFFS I put out the call & suffrage historians of Bsky assembled Join me Sunday w/ @kmarino1.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @wendylrouse.bsky.social @laurarprieto.bsky.social @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social @foodandarchives.bsky.social #HATM 🗃️
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Avengers Assemble: Ready for Battle
ALT: Avengers Assemble: Ready for Battle
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This painting by African-American painter #LauraWheelingWaring of the Harlem Renaissance, 'Girl in Pink Dress' 1927, is the inspiration for #AngelaBassett's gown at the #MetGala. Hung at #TheMet in 2024 for the Harlem Renaissance exhibition.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm giving my women's history walking tour - Downtown Dames: Historic Women Celebrated in Public Spaces as part of the The Municipal Art Society of New York's Jane's Walk weekend. Sign up and register at Friday 01 May 1pm www.mas.org/events/downt... Sunday 03 May 1pm www.mas.org/events/downt...
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
London, England The national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will feature a statue of the monarch as a young woman in her Garter robes on The Mall. www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Queen Elizabeth II memorial will feature statue of late monarch as young woman
The final masterplan for the central London tribute has been unveiled to coincide with what would have been the late Queen’s 100th birthday.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Washingon DC - National Women's Suffrage Monument "For the first time in our Nation’s history, Americans are invited to shape the vision for a new monument on the National Mall from the ground up. Contribute your ideas today and inspire the future design" womensmonument.org/monumental-i...
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Monumental Ideas - Women's Suffrage Monument Foundation
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Chichester, England Three blue plaques recognising overlooked women from Chichester's past are being unveiled Chichester City Council approved the plaques for a 17th Century Quaker Margery Wilkinson, 18th Century poet Charlotte Smith and Queen Elizabeth I. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Chichester blue plaques for women installed after campaign
Women from Chichester’s past get plaques after campaigners tackle an imbalance with famous men.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Real-Life ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Got 500 Cards After Turning 100 and Raised Thousands for First-of-Its-Kind Monument for the National Mall in Washington DC people.com/real-life-ro...
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Real-Life ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Got 500 Cards After Turning 100 and Raised Thousands for First-of-Its-Kind Monument (Exclusive)
At 100 years old, Mae Krier, a real-life "Rosie the Riveter," can still drive and cut her own lawn — and now she's fighting to help fund a monument dedicated to the thousands of women like her, who ha...
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For the first time, the Ohio Statehouse will include a permanent monument honoring the different eras of women who shaped Ohio and the United States. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Honoring Ohio women and the future they inspire | Opinion
Ohio's First Lady Fran DeWine discusses a new monument at the Statehouse honoring women's contributions to the state.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Dublin, Ireland Clodagh Finn: Is another statue the best way to honour our revolutionary women? How do you rectify the decades-long sin of omission that have been perpetrated against women of the revolutionary period from early 1900s and far beyond? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Clodagh Finn: Is another statue the best way to honour our revolutionary women?
How do you rectify the myriad wrongs and decades-long sin of omission that have been perpetrated against women of the revolutionary period from early 1900s to the Civil War and far beyond?
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/04/2026
Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Public References to Cesar Chavez Are Being Removed Across the U.S. The removals followed a New York Times investigation that revealed Chavez sexually abused women and girls. (gift article - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...
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Public References to Cesar Chavez Are Being Removed Across the U.S.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A new NYC walking tour is telling the stories of the city’s most badass women She Shapes History is spotlighting the women who impacted politics, civil rights and the arts in New York City. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
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A new NYC walking tour is telling the stories of the city’s most badass women
She Shapes History is spotlighting the women who impacted politics, civil rights and the arts in New York City.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
DENMARK The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work. Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign. (Gift article - no subscription needed) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...
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The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
DENMARK The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work. Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...
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The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
DENMARK The first money is now being allocated for STATUES OF OVERLOOKED WOMEN in urban spaces. Danish Arts Fund will allocate a million to co-finance new statues. kum.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
**New** Women's History Walking Tour of New York City by She Shapes History and Wanderful www.eventbrite.com/e/badass-wom...
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Badass Women of New York Walking Tour
Discover the badass women who shaped New York City's history in this limited edition Manhattan walking tour during March and April 2026!
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I hate Olympic Games withdrawal. For two weeks they share stories and you can watch competitions in sports that are new to you (or you just don't remember them from 4 years ago.) The best original programming. I hate Olympic withdrawal.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Visiting for the #Olympics - there are 2 recently installed statues of historic women in Milan Left - Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso writer & political activist maps.app.goo.gl/hDiSneYNBQ1t... Right - Margherita Hack astrophysicist maps.app.goo.gl/xFGUJ6ENipFA...
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We see so much content but so little art that when it breaks through it's like breathing again.
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Phyllis A Sears @phyllisasears.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
only Stephen Colbert and his current show can create this kind of magic www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R... we will so miss it when it is gone
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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A thread by an expert
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
100% this!👇
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