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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD

@rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social
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Historian. Author of Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963. (UNP, 2021) posts=my own thoughts. #ERA www.rebeccadewolf.com

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My latest piece for the Women & Politics Institute at AU. Gender will remain on the ballot for women until the Constitution robustly affirms women's status as full rights-bearing citizens. www.genderontheballot.org/gender-will-... #womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
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Gender will Remain on the Ballot for Women - Gender on the Ballot
In 1855, influential women’s rights activist Lucy Stone observed in a letter to her close friend, and future sister-in-law, Antoinette Brown, that “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, t...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
a lot of writers and podcasters need to learn that they are not entitled to freely adapt any book they take a liking to. do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth, a suffragist and abolitionist from New York, spoke at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron. She probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
Sojourner Truth
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Give it up for @cathleendcahill.bsky.social @kmarino1.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @wendylrouse.bsky.social @laurarprieto.bsky.social @foodandarchives.bsky.social @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social & @allisonklange.bsky.social #HATM #Suffs
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Taylor Swift Cheers at Grammys
ALT: Taylor Swift Cheers at Grammys
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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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CAGirlinSF @cagirlinsf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I recently discovered that the Internet Archive has all copies of The Suffragist and Equal Rights and I could not possibly be more excited to geek out.
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Janet Lindenmuth @janetlindenmuth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I revised this bio of Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow #hatm documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1011146165
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Biographical Sketch of Rose Winslow (Ruza Wenclawska) | Alexander Street Documents
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Progress is possible but not guaranteed. Keep marching. Keep marching on. And know your history. #HATM
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Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast @civicspod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Absolutely check out @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social fantastic book! You’ll learn a TON! And it’s a page turner 🤓 #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#ERA time! HOWEVER, Alice Paul and the NWP did not instantly pursue or (for that matter) even come up with the idea for the ERA during the immediate aftermath of the Nineteenth Amendment. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another key figure that SUFFs left out is Elsie Hill, close friend to Alice Paul and a leader in the NWP. (1) #HATM
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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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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Does the cause of women’s rights need more moderation or radicalism to advance its goals. That is a question that has punctuated the movement from the nineteenth century onward. #HATM
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
They called it the “night of terror.” Force feeding is a very violent practice as Alice Paul knew well, having gone on hunger strike and been force fed during her imprisonment for suffrage activism in England in 1909. www.loc.gov/resource/rbc... #hatm #suffs
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Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Many of the suffragists' banners were destroyed when they were attacked by crowds or arrested, but you can see a few of them-including the Young Are At The Gates at the Belmont-Paul House, the former National Women's Party HQ sited right next to the US capital #HATM #Suffs www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
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Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Home to the National Woman's Party for more than 90 years, this was the epicenter of the struggle for women's rights. From this house in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court, Alice Paul an...
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As Paul and the NWP continue their White House protest with the eventual arrests and hunger strikes, Catt and NAWSA become more attractive to Wilson as a moderate solution to his problem of what to do about the women suffrage campaign. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The NWP is not asking for the vote. They are demanding it. That is a huge challenge to the gender norms of the dominant cultural consensus of the early twentieth century. #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
One way that the SUFFs musical could have linked its plot to the nineteenth century was by including Harriot Stanton Blatch. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I love that the musical underscores the drama and developments in the suffrage movement at the turn of the century. However, I do wish there was a #SUFFs prequel that could call attention to the dynamic woman’s movement in the nineteenth century. (1) #HATM
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“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
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Caitlyn Jones @caitlynjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
RIP Inez. Here’s the painting of her that hangs in BEPA #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s great that #SUFFs includes Alva Belmont and Ruza Wenclawska as prominent players in the National Woman’s Party (NWP) and the overall push for suffrage. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I really love this song for Carrie Chapman Catt. It’s beautiful. It’s important to understand that Catt was exceedingly significant for the suffrage campaign’s eventual success. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This song foreshadows the protectionist ideology that will take hold after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. (1) #HATM
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Kelly Marino @kmarino1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I believe Nancy Cott included in a note that Terrell and her daughter were on the picket line with the NWP outside the White House at one point. Despite the racism of the NWP, we don’t know if more Black suffragists were ever on the line because we mostly only have records of those arrested. #HATM
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Get a look at the size of that crowd. Nobody draws crowds like suffragists. #HATM
Photograph of the crowd blocking the parade route during March 3, 1913, in Washington, DC
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mary Church Terrell was quite radical in her own right. One hesitation I have about #SUFFs is that it downplays Terrell’s radicalism. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I love this song for Ida B. Wells. If you are interested in the vital importance of Black women’s activism in the pursuit of intersectional progress and equity, then check out Martha Jones’s Vanguard. #HATM
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Yall know I love me some @jstordaily For more on Ida B. Wells & the Alpha Suffrage Club see: daily.jstor.org/the-alpha-su... #HATM #Suffs #PBSGreatPerformances
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The Alpha Suffrage Club and Black Women’s Fight for the Vote - JSTOR Daily
Black women’s experiences in the suffrage movement show that the Nineteenth Amendment marked one event in the fight for the vote, not an endpoint.
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s hard to grasp it today, but women, and young women especially, had far less power in society then than today, and the fact they were able to pull this off is nothing short of a miracle. If you think you are powerless today, look how much they achieved with far less #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Watch out folks… #AlicePaul is on the scene. As we will see, not only was Paul a dynamic (and at times problematic) force of sheer determination and strength, but she was also a genius when it came to attracting the attention of the America public to the #suffrage campaign. #HATM
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Purple gold and white” The yellow/gold color comes from the 1st state major state suffrage campaign in Kansas in 1867. They used the KS state flower, the Sunflower. Yellow flowers became associated w/ suffrage. www.nps.gov/articles/kan... #HATM #PBSGreatPerformances #Suffs
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Kansas and the 19th Amendment (U.S. National Park Service)
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
California suffragist Ella Sexton speaking at a 1913 suffrage convention told suffragists to “be as attractive, as charming and as lovable as you possibly can. That is the way to win equal suffrage from men.” #HATM
Image of well-dressed suffragist from newspaper article. “Lovable Nature to Win Men in Vote War,” San Francisco Examiner, April 6, 1913.
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Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast @civicspod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Biased but will second Gendered Citizenship and @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social as a fantastic follow #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Carrie Chapman Catt’s song embodies Liberal Maternalism. In general, maternalism upheld the essential nature of women’s domestic roles and strongly associated women with children’s well-being. (1) #HATM
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I am so excited that #HATM will be doing a watch party for #SUFFs! I love this play. I will be taking my kids to see it next month in DC. I will post throughout the watch party, but my participation might be sporadic as I have company in town staying with us to celebrate my son’s 10th birthday. (1)
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So you know nothing about the woman suffrage movement and you’re about to watch Suffs the musical on @pbs with a bunch of suffrage historians for tonight’s #HATM? I got you fam. Here’s a crash course before watching Suffs. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pGqr48/
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What you need to know before watching #Suffs the broadway musical on @pbs #GreatPerformances By a #suffrage #historian
TikTok video by PhDRachel
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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It took #HATM 🗃️ + @phdrachel.bsky.social to push me past my fear of watching SUFFS. Now I'm lined up w the fab @kmarino1.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @wendylrouse.bsky.social @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social @foodandarchives.bsky.social @cathleendcahill.bsky.social See you at the gates 🔥
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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Live skeeting on Bluesky, using hashtag #HATM. Everyone watches together beginning at 8 PM eastern time. In this case, watch on PBS YouTube channel m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQxs... or pbs dot org www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...
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Suffs | FULL MUSICAL | Great Performances | PBS
YouTube video by Great Performances | PBS
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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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Women & Politics Institute @au-wpi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to @au-wpi.bsky.social’s 2025-2026 course instructors! Cheers to the end of another great year 🍎 ✨ @betsyfischermartin.bsky.social @lgettman.bsky.social @ahuntah.bsky.social @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social
Betsy Fischer Martin, Karen O'Connor, Lucy Gettman, Susannah Wellford, Amanda Hunter, Rebecca DeWolf, Diana Carlin, China Dickerson Kittrell, Shilpa Phadke, Shruthi Jayaram, Amanda Fuchs Miller, Jennifer Luray, Christina Henderson, Jane Hall
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
From the amazing Bobbie Francis. A mentor and friend. Always amazed at her dedication and work. msmagazine.com/2026/03/01/p...
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There Is Power in the Word ‘Patriarchy.’ We Need to Start Using It.
sex binaries, reproductive control and white Christian nationalism have the same root system: patriarchy. Naming it dismantles its power.
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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking for recommendations on secondary works about 19th-century conceptions of voluntary motherhood. I am very familiar with Linda Gordon's work. (1)
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Gendered Citizenship by @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social might be useful. My Made by History article on women’s independent citizenship might help. time.com/7280834/save... 🗃️
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The SAVE Act Could Threaten Voting Access—And Repeat History
The 1907 Expatriation Act made it impossible for some women born in the U.S. to vote.
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
On this day in 1787, thirty-nine male delegates signed the U.S. Constitution. I am delighted to be giving a Constitution Day lecture today @UCincinnatiLaw. I will be discussing my new book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. #WeTheMen
We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On this day in 2016, Phyllis Schlafly died. She blocked ERA ratification in the 70s & 80s, in part by denying the persistence of discrim against women. Here’s an article where I explore how Schlafly created a playbook that anti-feminists have followed since. #WeTheMen papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Phyllis Schlafly
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