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Suffrage Movement

Sojourner Truth: How An Enslaved Dutch Speaker Became A Black Liberation Icon

March 20, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Map of the Mid-Hudson ValleyOn March 31st, 1817 the New York State Legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on July 4th, 1827. Coincidentally, the date of choice was almost exactly two centuries after the Dutch West India Company’s yacht Bruynvisch arrived at Manhattan on August 29th, 1627. [Read more…] about Sojourner Truth: How An Enslaved Dutch Speaker Became A Black Liberation Icon

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Dutch History, Hurley, Legal History, New Netherland, Political History, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, Suffrage Movement, Ulster County, womens history

Womens Rights History: ‘The Night Of Terror’

November 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Night of Terror ProtesterThe Silent Sentinels, or Sentinels of Liberty, organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, were a group of over 2,000 women demanding women’s suffrage by silently protesting in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency beginning on January 10, 1917.  About 500 were arrested, with at least 168 serving jail time – many of them from New York State, a birthplace of the suffrage and women’s rights movements.

Over the two and a half year long protest many of the women who picketed were arrested, harassed and abused by local and federal authorities, most notably being tortured while in local jails. Among the most horrific of these acts occurred during the night of November 14-15, 1917, known as the Night of Terror. [Read more…] about Womens Rights History: ‘The Night Of Terror’

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Political History, Suffrage Movement, womens history, Woodrow Wilson

Susan B. Anthony Childhood Home Historic Marker Dedication

June 16, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Susan B Anthony childhood home in Battenville (2018 photo by Clifford Oliver of the Cultural Landscape Foundation)The Washington County Historical Society and the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) have announce the dedication of a new historic marker to be placed at the Susan B Anthony Childhood Home at 2835 State Route 29 in Battenville (Town of Greenwich) on Saturday, June 18th. [Read more…] about Susan B. Anthony Childhood Home Historic Marker Dedication

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Greenwich, OPRHP, Suffrage Movement, Susan B Anthony Childhood Home, Susan B. Anthony, Washington County, Washington County HIstorical Society, womens history

A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

May 30, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Public Faces Secret Lives by Wendy RouseIn the new book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (NYU Press, 2022) Wendy L. Rouse of San Jose State University reveals that the suffrage movement included individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a “respectable” public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women’s suffrage more palatable to the public. [Read more…] about A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Filed Under: Books, Events, History Tagged With: Cultural History, Gender History, LGBTQ, Massachusetts Historical Society, Political History, Social History, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Women’s Rights: An Unfinished Revolution

March 22, 2022 by Chris Kretz Leave a Comment

long island history project logoIn 2020 we marked the centennial of woman suffrage and the passing of the 19th amendment. Although the intervening 102 years can make that struggle feel like the distant past, the story of the many people who fought and marched and pushed for the right to vote is very much alive.

Marguerite Kearns keeps one such story before our eyes in her book An Unfinished Revolution (SUNY Press, 2021). [Read more…] about Women’s Rights: An Unfinished Revolution

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: Books, Long Island, Podcasts, Suffrage Movement

The Black Cyclone & The Unbearable Whiteness of Cycling

February 7, 2022 by Jaap Harskamp 3 Comments

Annie Cohen Kopchovsky with her Londonderry-sponsored bikeThe invention of the wheel has been celebrated as a hallmark of man’s drive for innovation. By the 1890s, Europe and America were obsessed with the bicycle. The new two-wheel technology had a profound effect on social interactions. It supplied the pedal power to freedom for (mainly white) women and created an opportunity for one of the first black sporting heroes.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, bicycle racing as a sporting event reached feverish popularity both amongst the public and within artistic circles. In the early twentieth century racing developed as a distinct facet of modernity. The bicycle was the pre-eminent vehicle of the avant-garde. [Read more…] about The Black Cyclone & The Unbearable Whiteness of Cycling

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City, Recreation Tagged With: Art History, bicycling, Black History, Cultural History, French History, German-American History, Literature, modernism, New Hampshire, Sports History, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Huguenots & New Rochelle’s Spirit of Liberty

October 17, 2021 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Monument in Hudson Park commemorating the Huguenot founders of New RochelleThe city of New Rochelle has a relevant place in the founding history of the United States. It was here that in 1689 a small community of French Protestant refugees would settle.

Known as Huguenots, they exercised considerable influence on America’s course towards self-determination. George Washington descended from a Huguenot refugee on his mother’s side. [Read more…] about Huguenots & New Rochelle’s Spirit of Liberty

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Art History, French History, Greenwich Village, Huguenots, New Netherland, New Rochelle, New York City, Religious History, Suffrage Movement, Westchester County, womens history

The Coal Queen of Western Pennsylvania

August 20, 2021 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Kimberly Hess discusses A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah Cochran (Books Fluent, 2021). Cochran lived in Pennsylvania and headed companies that processed coal and coke. A distant ancestor of Hess, Cochran advocated for women’s suffrage and was a philanthropist. [Read more…] about The Coal Queen of Western Pennsylvania

Filed Under: Books, History, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Industrial History, Labor History, Podcasts, Suffrage Movement, womens history

Black History in Upstate New York Series Concluding

August 20, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

black history in upstate new yorkThe final programs of the Black History in Upstate New York series created by Colgate University graduate and Upstate Institute Fellow Victoria Basulto will be posted online from August 23rd through 26th.

These short online programs highlight individuals, events, and places in Upstate New York central to movements like abolitionism, civil rights, and women’s suffrage movement. [Read more…] about Black History in Upstate New York Series Concluding

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Civil Rights, Gender History, National Abolition Hall of Fame, Political History, Suffrage Movement, Voting Rights, womens history

New Passport Stamp Card Commemorates Women’s Suffrage

August 6, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Limited-edition “Forward into Light” challenge coinsThe Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP) has issued a new Suffrage Passport Stamp Card to mark the 101st anniversary of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, with which women finally received the right to vote. [Read more…] about New Passport Stamp Card Commemorates Women’s Suffrage

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Champlain Valley, Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership, Suffrage Movement, womens history

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