Laura R. Prieto

Because housewives are also part of history. And sometimes they aren’t just housewives. #WomensHistory #BlackWomensHistory #WomenInHistory

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How did citizenship affect U.S. women’s right to vote in 1920?
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No Common Ground (full reading copy) : The University of North Carolina Press

For a limited time you can read my book for free. Each one, teach one.

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CRAMPED Podcast — Kate Helen Downey CRAMPED is an investigative podcast that answers the question "Why are so many people with uteruses in unexplained & untreated pain?"

Thank you to Kate Helen Downey for interviewing me about the history of #feminism, the women's health movement, and @OurBodiesOurselves for her great new podcast, "Cramped"!
You can listen to the show at www.katehelendowney.com/cramped

#WomensHistory #WomenInHistory #WomensHealth

Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

Thank you for doing this additional research! I appreciate learning more about Hester’s life from what you found.

My latest post for @maryelizaproject.bsky.social, full of personal resonance today.

Black and white image from a newpaper showing four young women in dark hats and coats. The circled women is identified in the caption as Eunice S. Coyle

On #PresidentsDay 1914 (celebrated as Washington’s Birthday), future new voter Eunice S. Coyle won second prize, $25, for her essay on how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall interpreted the Constitution from he Old South Association. Image: @BostonGlobe, February 24, 1914.

Purple and cream gradient background with the headline: Important news from Our Bodies Ourselves Today (with the word Today crossed out). The Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University is now the global hub for all of Our Bodies Ourselves! We are reuniting OBOS's work in education, advocacy, history, and global projects under one roof!

It’s a new chapter for Our Bodies Ourselves! Suffolk University is now the global hub for the iconic feminist resource, and OBOS is ready to advance its powerful legacy through Suffolk’s Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. 1/5

Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

Two front view photographs of The New England Hospital for Women and Children from between 1850 and 1930. Photographs show two buildings and one small tree.

On National Women Physicians Day we are spotlighting Ward 23 New Voter Dr. Laura H. Muir (née Barbrick), who registered to vote on October 11th, 1920. Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, @nypl”

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It’s not just the official narrative history of US foreign relations that’s vanished. All the historical documents are also gone from the site.
#history #shafr #censorship #InfoBlackout

Spoiler alert: Maude Trotter Stewart was not just a housewife.
My latest for @maryelizaproject.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Suffrage #CivilRightsHistory #BlackBoston #BostonHistory

Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.

In my latest post for the Mary Eliza Project, I wrote about reformer Zilpha Drew Smith, registering to vote in Boston in 1920.
#WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject

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Handwritten voter register with messy writing and a large ink stain

The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, and women in Boston had until October 13 to register to vote for that year’s presidential election. On October 13, almost 11,000 women registered. The chaos of Oct 13 is apparent in many of the last pages of the registers (Dorchester’s Ward 18).

Black and white advertisement for a New Model 12 Dictaphone Dictating Machine, a boxlike machine with a handheld speaker. Image of Sarah J. Risk's voter registration entry with occupation "dictaphone operator” at the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company.

What is this strange contraption? A dictaphone! In August 1920, in the first month that women could register to vote due to the 19th Amendment, Bostonian Sarah J. Risk signed her name to the register with the occupation “dictaphone operator” at the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company.

World map showing number of women voters from each country who registered to vote in Boston in 1920

Mapping and interpreting the Boston Women Voters dataset is both exciting and challenging. One of the challenges the Mary Eliza Team faces is interpreting and analyzing new voters’ birthplaces.

I’m presenting with @maryelizaproject.bsky.social this evening, talking about the diverse & interesting women who registered to vote in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood in 1920! I hope you’ll join us if you can. #womeninhistory

Or en route from Boston to NY!

Books on the Square and Riff Raff Books + Bar in Providence RI. Easy combo with some Boston bookstore readings.

Welcome #MaryEliza! Im proud to be part of the MEP team. Follow us for stories of the 56k+ surprisingly diverse, unsung women who registered to vote in Boston in 1920. Maps & data & more as well!

#WomenInHistory #SuffrageHistory and #BostonHistory #PublicHumanities

handwritten register of women voters

The Mary Eliza Project is a collaborative public humanities initiative that uses historic records to illuminate diverse women’s political engagement in Boston. We focus on the historical moment of 1920. 🧵

I’m honored to be quoted in this new Vox article by Anna North, about the origins and meanings of the latest vile misogynistic slogan. www.vox.com/politics/384...
#OurBodiesOurselves #WomensActivism #Backlash #ReproRightsHistory

Today WBUR replayed its Radio Boston interview with me and my amazing #MaryElizaProject colleagues Marta Crilly & Erin Wiebe. It was so much fun talking to Carrie Jung about the archives and stories of the city’s newly enfranchised women voters. #womenshistory

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