VOLUME 22

NUMBER 01

March 2018

 

Editors: Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
Published by Alexander Street Press and the
Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton

In This Issue

In this issue we publish one new document project and add to the "Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920" document project. The issue also includes 25 new biographical sketches and a modest number of documents that we are adding to the Black Women Suffragists collection. And we are publishing in our full-text sources section a first installment of what will eventually be an almost complete run of the feminist journal, Equal Rights, 1923-1954.

The new document project, authored by Brigid O'Farrell, is titled, "How Did Eleanor Roosevelt's Alliance with Women in the Labor Movement Benefit Working Women and Contribute to Her Emergence as a Significant Voice for Democracy and Human Rights, 1902-1962?" This project explores Roosevelt's growing commitment to organized labor before, during and after her years as First Lady.

In this issue we significantly expand the document project, "Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920," first posted in March 2015. To that project we add 19 crowdsourced biographical sketches (and 29 sketches from Notable American Women) of women activists who picketed the White House in 1917-1919 in support of the National Woman's Party, 41 transcripts of affidavits submitted by NWP activists imprisoned for their protest, and a much-expanded spreadsheet of 400 militant suffragists included in this project. We expect to publish the remaining 100 biographical sketches for this project on the website in the coming year or two.

With this issue we continue to update our collection of writings by and about Black Women Suffragists, which began with our March 2014 issue. Building on the pioneering scholarship of Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, this collection now includes more than 1,900 writings by or about some 141 activists, totaling more than 16,000 pages. Tom Dublin and a team of scholars and students have assembled these published and unpublished writings of Black woman suffragists, including both notable national figures and much lesser-known local activists. When we began this publishing we anticipated having about 100 activists, but as the work has proceeded that group looks to reach 250 women by the time we are done. The major element of the work remaining is to commission biographical sketches for the latest additions to the group. If you would like to prepare a biographical sketch or are aware of women activists we still need to include in the collection, please contact tdublin@binghamton.edu.

We round out this issue with eight book reviews and News from the Archives. If you are interested in reviewing books or have titles to recommend for review, please email our book review editors, Kathleen Laughlin, of Metropolitan (MN) State University for works in U.S. Women's History and Megan Threlkeld, of Denison University, for works in International Women's History, with your suggestions. Please note as well the announcements in the News from the Archives section, assembled by Tanya Zanish-Belcher, of Wake Forest University. If you would like to make an archives-related announcement in a future issue, she can be reached at zanisht@wfu.edu.

 

Editorial Transition

 

Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin have been editing the database/journal for twenty years now and beginning with January 2019 we are passing the baton to Judy Tzu-Chun Wu of UC Irvine and Rebecca J. Plant of UC San Diego, who are beginning a 4 1/2 year term as WASM co-editors. Their respective universities are supporting the editorial work as SUNY Binghamton did in the past. We are grateful to our new editors and thank them for the contributions they are already making to a smooth transition.

If you are interested in submitting future work for consideration for publication in WASM, please contract our new editors to discuss your ideas and the submission process. They can be reached at j.wu@uci.edu or rjplant@ucsd.edu.

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