Published: July 8, 2020
I recently finished reading three memoirs about prominent East Coast WASP families and how the nineteenth- and twentieth-century legacies of these once proud and wealthy clans played out in the lives of their descendants: George Howe Colt’s The Big House: A Century… Read More
Published: July 7, 2020
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” —Alice Paul Join the conversation! Leslie Goddard speaks about “Alice Paul, Non-violent Protest, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Tuesday, July 28… Read More
Published: July 6, 2020
Susan Trollinger is professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Dayton. She joins host Rachel Hopkin for this podcast, in which she discusses some of the rhetorical devices deployed by women fighting for the right to vote. Listen here. Join the conversation! Susan Trollinger will present a… Read More
Published: July 3, 2020
By Pat Williamsen With the publication of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener, Kimberly A. Hamlin introduces readers to one the most important suffragists we’ve never heard of. While the efforts of many individuals secured voting rights for women, one of her peers called… Read More
Published: July 2, 2020
Readers of Pathways may be surprised to see a humanities magazine devoting space to agriculture. Ohio has a rich history as a farm state, of course, and we know that foodways open a window into ethnic heritage and regional traditions. But the humanities are usually taken as purely… Read More