Women & the Law in Revolutionary America
Despite a plea from Abigail Adams to her husband to “Remember the Ladies,” women, especially married women, didn’t have many legal rights in the Early Republic. Even so, women used existing legal stru...
8 Mai 202344min
Project Confrontation: The Birmingham Campaign of 1963
In 1963, on the heels of a failed desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia, Martin Luther King., Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference decided to take a stand for Civil Rights in “the...
1 Mai 202351min
The Plant Revolution and 19th Century American Literature
During the 19th Century, growing international trade and imperialist conquest combined with new technologies to transport and care for flora led to a burgeoning fascination with plant life. American w...
24 Apr 202344min
The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
While voters were casting their ballots in the 1972 presidential election, Native demonstrators had taken over the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington, DC, barricading themselves in with o...
17 Apr 202341min
The Southern Strategy
In the decades following the Civil War, African Americans reliably voted for the Republican Party, which had led the efforts to outlaw slavery and enfranchise Black voters; and white southerners relia...
10 Apr 202339min
Harold Washington
In 1983, Harold Washington took on the Chicago machine and won, with the help of a multiracial coalition, becoming the first Black mayor of Chicago. Winning the mayoral election was only the first fig...
3 Apr 202352min
The 1968 White House Fashion Show
On February 29, 1968, Lady Bird Johnson hosted the first–and last–White House Fashion Show. The fashion show, intended both to highlight the fourth largest industry in the United States and to promote...
27 Mar 202344min
Madame Restell, "The Wickedest Woman in New York"
In 19th Century New York, everyone knew who to go to to end an unwanted pregnancy: the French-trained, sophisticated Madame Restell, who lived in a posh mansion on 5th Avenue. In reality, Madame Reste...
20 Mar 202342min
