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When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights

When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights

When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights
By Brooke Kroeger

Arts & Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Progressive Era, PoliticsGuest UserNovember 16, 2017Comment

New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage

New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage

New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage

By Joan Marie Johnson

Gender & Sexuality, Progressive EraGuest UserNovember 14, 2017Comment

The Men Who Helped Get Women the Vote

The Men Who Helped Get Women the Vote

The Men Who Helped Get Women the Vote

By Brooke Kroeger

Gender & Sexuality, Progressive EraGuest UserNovember 9, 2017Comment

A Fundamental Component: Black Women and Right to Vote

A Fundamental Component: Black Women and Right to Vote

A Fundamental Component: Black Women and Right to Vote

By Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello

Race & Ethnicity, Politics, Progressive EraGuest UserNovember 8, 2017 Comment

100 Years Ago: When A Socialist Nearly Became Mayor of NYC

100 Years Ago: When A Socialist Nearly Became Mayor of NYC

100 Years Ago: When A Socialist Nearly Became Mayor of NYC

By Aaron Welt

Politics, Progressive Era, ReligionGuest UserNovember 2, 2017Comment

The Curious Affair of Ralph Adams Cram

The Curious Affair of Ralph Adams Cram

The Curious Affair of Ralph Adams Cram

By Margaret A. Brucia

Arts & Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Progressive Era, ReligionGuest UserOctober 31, 2017 Comment

Einstein Comes to Dinner

Einstein Comes to Dinner

Einstein Comes to Dinner

By Margaret A. Brucia

Arts & Culture, Progressive EraGuest UserOctober 17, 2017Comment

Do We Want to Exhibit a Clean or Unclean City? Private Contractors, Scavengers, and Waste Disposal at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Do We Want to Exhibit a Clean or Unclean City? Private Contractors, Scavengers, and Waste Disposal at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Do We Want to Exhibit a Clean or Unclean City? Private Contractors, Scavengers, and Waste Disposal at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

By Tina Peabody

Metropolitan Region, Progressive Era, Urban PlanningGuest UserOctober 5, 2017Comment

Daisy Chanler, Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daisy Chanler, Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daisy Chanler, Father Sigourney Fay & F. Scott Fitzgerald

By Margaret A. Brucia

Arts & Culture, Progressive EraGuest UserOctober 3, 2017Comment

Alessandro Fabbri, the Rockefeller Institute & the Immortal Chicken Heart

Alessandro Fabbri, the Rockefeller Institute & the Immortal Chicken Heart

Alessandro Fabbri, the Rockefeller Institute & the Immortal Chicken Heart

By Margaret A. Brucia

Nature & Environment, Progressive EraGuest UserSeptember 5, 2017Comment