VOLUME 27

NUMBER 1

2023

 

Editors: Rebecca Jo Plant and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Editorial Assistants: Kacey Calahane, Samantha de Vera, and Jordan Mylet
Book Review Editors: Katherine Marino and Donna Schuele
Published by Alexander Street Press
with support from the University of California, Irvine and San Diego

 

| About the Journal |
| Rebecca Jo Plant and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, "In This Issue" |

Civil War Cover Art

Civil War Cover Art |

Introduction to the ONLINE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

General Intro | Black Woman Suffragists | Militant Woman Suffragists | NAWSA Suffragists

DOCUMENT PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES

'Do not toss this letter away': Women's Hardship Petitions to the U.S. Federal Government during the Civil War
By Cayla Regas, Frances M. Clarke, and Rebecca Jo Plant
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

How Did Black Women Struggle to Bring White Suffragists to Their Citizenship Cause in 1921?
By Tom Dublin
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

ADDITION TO EXISTING DOCUMENT PROJECT

Revisiting the President's Commission on the Status of Women through the Activism of Dorothy Height, and Her Part in the Emergence of New Forms of Women's Activism, 1961-1966
By Kathryn Kish Sklar and Keisha N. Blain
| Document 19A | Document 24 |

NEW PRIMARY SOURCE SET

Berkshire Conferences on the History of Women: Fifty Years of Programs, 1973-2023

1973 1st Berkshire Conference Program: Douglass College, Rutgers University

1974 2nd Berkshire Conference Program: Radcliffe College, Harvard University

1976 3rd Berkshire Conference Report and Evening Schedule: Bryn Mawr College

1976 3rd Berkshire Conference Program: Bryn Mawr College

1978 4th Berkshire Conference Program: Mount Holyoke College

1981 5th Berkshire Conference Program: Vassar College

1984 6th Berkshire Conference Program: Smith College

1987 7th Berkshire Conference Program: Wellesley College

1990 8th Berkshire Conference Program: Douglass College, Rutgers University

1993 9th Berkshire Conference Program: Vassar College

1996 10th Berkshire Conference Program: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1999 11th Berkshire Conference Program: University of Rochester

2002 12th Berkshire Conference Program: University of Connecticut at Storrs

2005 13th Berkshire Conference Program: Scripps College

2008 14th Berkshire Conference Program: University of Minnesota

2011 15th Berkshire Conference Program: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2014 16th Berkshire Conference Program: University of Toronto

2017 17th Berkshire Conference Program: Hofstra University

2020 18th Berkshire Conference Program: Johns Hopkins University

New Primary Sources: Additions to Writings by Black Women Suffragists

Colored Women Physicians

Letter, Margaret L. Walker to A.W. Hunton, February 25, 1921

Letter, Mary C. Booze to Walter White, February 25, 1932

Letter, Inez Richardson to Addie Hunton, April 11, 1921

Letter, S.W. Brown To Mrs. Hunton, February 24, 1921

Colored Woman's Appeal

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance & the Second Wave
By Patricia Romney (New York City: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2021. 274 pp. Paperback, $19.95, ISBN: 9781952177828).
Reviewed by Yatta Kiazolu, University of California, Irvine

Review of Citizens of the World: U.S. Women and Global Government
By Megan Threlkeld (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 248 pp. Hardcover, $39.95, ISBN: 9780812253986).
Reviewed by Luah Tomas, York University

Review of Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains
By Jennifer J. Jill (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 290 pp. Paperback, $24.99, ISBN: 9781496226853).
Reviewed by Jenny M. Luke

Review of Women's Activist Organizing in U.S. History
By Dawn Durante, Compiler (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 282 pp. Paperback, $28.00, ISBN 978-0-252-08641-0).
Reviewed by Rebecca J. Mead, Northern Michigan University

 

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