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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...

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes primary sources are essential for research. Got to go to the first-hand source

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes, I love that the musical gave more depth to Carrie Chapman Catt than how she is usually portrayed in comparison to Paul.

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I have that book too. Going to read it this summer :)

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Oh fascinating, I will need to look at those sources when I get to the next book project.

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is AWESOME! Such great source materials.

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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

If you want to learn more about this complicated history and the #ERA, check out my book #GenderedCitizenship. (5) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

But it would take an extremely arduous and contentious almost three-year drafting process before they would conclude that women needed complete constitutional sexual equality to fully emancipate women from the subservient status that they had historically occupied in the U.S. legal tradition.4 #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

And they knew that they wanted to clarify women’s legal personhood in the wake of federal woman suffrage. (3) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yes, Paul and other NWP members knew that they had wanted to do something about the vast array of sex-based legal distinctions that had continued to give men authority over women in law and in custom. (2) #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

My hope is to write a biography of Hill (once I complete my second book) to capture her historical significance in shaping the post-suffrage women’s movement. (3) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Once the Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, she will become a force within the NWP, as she will help Paul draft the ERA in the almost three-year drafting process that will unfold in the early 1920s. (2) #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

In that way, the different strategies of Paul and Catt complimented each other. (2) #HATM.

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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

For more on Blatch, see Ellen Carol DuBois’s Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. (3) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The daughter of the indomitable Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Blatch helped move the suffrage struggle into the twentieth century and she helped recruit working-class women to the suffrage campaign. (2) #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

With the research for my current book-project, I am examining the array of challenges that the woman’s rights movement set out to tackle in the mid-nineteenth century. The vote was important (of course), but it was not the only cause. (2) #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

These two demonstrate the ways in which the struggle to advance women’s rights often defies traditional categories of political ideology. As I discuss in #GenderedCitizenship, the original push for the #ERA also included amendment supporters from across the political and social spectrums.(2) #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

Catt believed in working through the system to change it; Paul sought to blow the whole thing open and start anew. Both strategies were important. Check out the PBS documentary The Vote for a more detailed examination of Paul and Catt’s different approaches. (4) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Her “Winning Plan”, for example, helped to advance the federal suffrage amendment because it called for suffragists in states where women already had the vote to exert pressure on their national representatives. (3) #HATM

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Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

She was a political mastermind and extremely pragmatic. Her strategic brilliance allowed her to harness NAWSA’s powerbase and political strength. (2) #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

To learn more about protectionism, check out my book, #GenderedCitizenship. (3) #HATM

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