“Have We a New Sex Problem Here?” Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration
In November of 1920, the black newspaper The Chicago Whip ran a front-page article with…
Browsing: Women
Televising the Revolution: Turn’s Peggy Shippen Arnold
Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented…
From the Archives… Women’s History
In a 1990 Journal of American History piece, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recounted her experiences working…
How to Train an Obstetrician: Lessons from the Chicago Maternity Center
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands concerned about reproductive healthcare in the Trump…
Women Unite! Lessons from 1977 for 2017
Forty years ago, in a very different political climate, when the Republican and Democratic Parties…
The Historical Stage Is Set for a Woman to Be Elected President
As the Democratic Party becomes the first major U.S. political party to nominate a woman…
Suffragette
The movie Suffragette is the first feature film dramatically depicting the monumental struggle for women’s…