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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 19/07/2026

A caved-in roof. A crumbling porch. A memorial water wall in need of restoration. These are just a few areas of the $10 million of deferred maintenance needed at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

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Saving Seneca Falls: The U.S. Birthplace of ‘All Men and Women Are Created Equal’ Must Be Preserved

A caved-in roof. A crumbling porch. A memorial water wall in need of restoration. These are just a few areas of the $10 million of deferred maintenance needed at the Women’s Rights National…

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The view of Independence Hall from @constitutionctr.bsky.social where I recently gave a lecture on the legacy of the Declaration in the 20th century. As the brilliant Pauli Murray said “I want to see America be what she says she is in the Declaration . . . America be what you proclaim to be!”

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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Many of the women voters in Boston's Lower Roxbury and the South End supported themselves and their families by working at the United Drug Co. factory. Read our blog post, The Cherry Pickers of Lower Roxbury to learn more. sites.google.com/view/maryeli...

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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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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

On this day in 1810, Margaret Fuller was born. She became a woman’s rights advocate and America’s first female war correspondent. Her influential 1845 book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was one of the first American publications to call for sex equality and female enfranchisement. #WeTheMen

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National Constitution Center @constitutionctr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Congrats to Jill Lepore! Her book "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution," was just awarded the 2026 #PulitzerPrize for history. Check out this clip from a past #NCCed program, in which Lepore discusses the significance of Article V.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Turning to international writer, speaker & reformer Mary Church Terrell this #blackhistorymonth, grateful for Alison Parker's excellent biography. #Terrell was often the only Black woman at major #pacifism conferences in the early #19C & articulated a powerful vision of peace through racial justice.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Day 15 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American economist Florence Kelley! Kelley rethought philanthropy’s relationship to capitalism, writing that it is a “vain struggle to patch & alleviate an evil social system, propping up what ought to be torn down & rebuilt.” #herstory #womenshistory

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

On this day in 1892, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone & Isabella Beecher Hooker appeared before the House Judiciary Comm to support a proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting sex-based disenfranchisement. Stanton emphasized women’s “birthright to self-sovereignty.” #WeTheMen

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self. Address Delivered by Mrs. Stanton Before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress. Monday, January 18, 1892.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

On this day in 1793, Lucretia Mott was born. When the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention barred female abolitionists from participating, Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to hold a woman’s rights meeting. 8 years later, they organized the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. #WeTheMen

Lucretia Mott: “I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.”

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

On this day in 1894, Burnita Shelton Matthews was born. She became a suffragist, lawyer, and advocate for repealing the thousands of laws that discriminated against women. She helped end women’s exclusion from juries in D.C. In 1949, she became the first female federal district judge. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

On this day in 1807, NJ disenfranchised women, people of color & aliens. NJ’s 1776 Constitution entitled “all Inhabitants” to vote if they met age, property & residency requirements. In 1807, however, the NJ Legislature specified that every voter had to “be a free, white, male citizen.” #WeTheMen

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Thanks for reposting this article @ldodd.bsky.social! Section 2 of the 19th authorizes Congress to enforce the 19th. While legislation was introduced in 1920, it was never enacted. It’s time for Dems to introduce such legislation as a defensive move. @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov

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Marcia Crumley Art @marciacrumleyart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This new painting will be at the Crane Estate art show this weekend in Ipswich, MA. Autumn Marsh, 20" x 20" encaustic on panel. . #nature #marsh #encaustic #painting .

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Washington University Law Review @washulawreview.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We’re thrilled to share that Paula A. Monopoli’s article in Volume 102 of Washington University Law Review was “highly recommended” by Professor Larry Solum on his Legal Theory Blog! Please it here: wustllawreview.org/2025/09/02/a...

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A “New” New Departure – Washington University Law Review

In the wake of enactment of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, women’s rights activists embarked on an exercise in popular constitutionalism known as “the New Departure.” Frustrated by the failu...

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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The result is generous, original, and fascinating—de-emphasizing the stories of the so-called Founding Fathers, and forwarding those of ordinary people, some of whom made constitutions of their own. We the People is also profoundly, indeed joyously, subversive. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/w...

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Constitution in Progress

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Honored to give a scholars lecture on Women and the U.S. Constitution @constitutionctr.bsky.social in Philadelphia.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Monopoli on Women's Rights and Popular Constitutionalism, buff.ly/uNwud41 - Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN.

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Monopoli on Women's Rights and Popular Constitutionalism

Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the…

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Make no mistake - the firestorm over Tylenol and autism is deeply related to the abortion debate and the larger conversation about the "responsibilities" of American motherhood and women's status.

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Honored to be named Distinguished University Professor @umaryland.edu

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John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Cast of characters countdown to pub day, number 45: Madeleine Doty, author and journalist, specialist in prison reform and pacifism; egalitarian marriage to Roger Baldwin in 1919. #TheRadicalFund

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

On this 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, it says much about the state of our democracy that some in government are tacitly endorsing repeal of the 19th - ratification of which scholars have described as the largest single expansion of democracy in our nation‘s history.

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

On the 105th anniversary of ratification of the only sex-equality amendment we’ve got, check out #JulieSuk on new constitutional paths forward. #Enforcethe19th.

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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

By looking back at these historical sources that preserve both the struggles and the determination of American immigrant women to have their voices heard, we can shine a light on the challenges facing our democratic process today Thread by Erin Wiebe

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Marcia Crumley Art @marciacrumleyart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I'm getting super excited about my upcoming solo show at Blue Door Gallery in York, Maine. The opening is in 6 weeks: Sept 13, 5-9 pm. Hope to see you there if you live in the area!! . This new collection of encaustic landscapes is loaded with color and texture. . #maineart #painting #encaustic

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“This year we saw the first decline in two decades of women in the House of Representatives, which I find really shocking, and it’s due to all those constraints in our polarized, rigid system. The only way that we’re really going to address that and tackle that is to change the electoral system.”

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

On this day of 1976, the first female midshipman arrived to begin training at the U.S. Naval Academy. Congress ordered the academy to stop excluding women, after women filed suit in 1973. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

On this day in 1913, women in Illinois won the right to vote for President, the first such victory east of the Mississippi River. Illinois preserved other sex-based disenfranchisement until the 19th Amendment’s ratification in 1920. #WeTheMen

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A great day at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law graduation where we were inspired by @sifill.bsky.social profound call for our students to hew closely to their oath as attorneys and frame a new chapter in our constitutional republic.

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Marcia Crumley Art @marciacrumleyart.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Must-see art in Paris! See my latest art blog for paintings you won't want to miss if you are traveling to Paris this summer, including the spectacular David Hockney retrospective. This is blog 1 of 2. , #art #Paris #travel #painting . Read it here: www.marciacrumleyart.com/blog/paris-a...

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

On this day in 1894, the Supreme Court heard In re Lockwood. Belva Lockwood, a pioneering attorney & 1884 presidential candidate, challenged VA’s refusal to admit her to the state bar. She lost, even though VA’s statute explicitly authorized admission to “any person” admitted elsewhere. #WeTheMen

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today, most members of the Maryland Carey Law faculty sent a letter to our students “reaffirming our commitment to the rule of law…and upholding the precepts of a fair and impartial legal system.” Proud to be part of this faculty and this place.

Text of letter to our students-sorry not to be able to recreate the whole letter here.

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Paula Monopoli @profmonopoli.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Kudos to @proftracythomas.bsky.social for a terrific symposium on women in law and politics convened by the Center for Constitutional Law & Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. Excellent papers and rich panel discussions among the political scientists and law professors participating.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Today we are sharing a proposal for an AP women’s history course. We know that “a comprehensive understanding of women’s history can act as an empowering agent that will allow the youth of America to enter positions of power knowing their worth and potential impact.” nursingclio.org/2025/02/19/e...

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Educational Activism: Creating an AP U.S. Women’s History Course

We represent a large group of teachers and students working together to lead a national campaign to create an advanced placement (AP) course on women: an AP U.S. women’s history course known …

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