History Corner

Join blog writer, Anticus, in exploring the complexities in fighting for suffrage in Boston and New York. In 1869, Wyoming became the first state in the union to enfranchise women. We might imagine an alternate history in which the success of women’s suffrage in Wyoming inspired unity among activists across the nation seeking voting rights for women. We might also imagine how that success eased the fears of those who were opposed to women’s suffrage. (After all, Wyoming did n

Join our blog writer, Memoria, in exploring the intertwined histories of abolition and women's suffrage through the life and legacy of Harriet Hayden. August 18th marks the 106th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. Many of the women, both Black and white, who belonged to the suffrage movement were veterans of the fight to abolish slavery, including Julia Ward Howe. Howe and her husband

Join Anticus in remembering America’s birthday and the history leading up to this momentous event. Though we call July 4, 1776 the nation’s birth date, the creation of a new nation is not the work of a day. On that singular summer day, more than a year after the Revolutionary War had started, delegates from thirteen of Britain’s North American colonies ratified the Declaration of Independence. (Britain’s American colonies farther to the north on the continent and in the Carib

If we had to date the convergence of the women's rights movement with the anti-slavery movement in the United States, 1837 is a strong candidate. Of course, that confluence of 1837 did not come out of nowhere. A number of Black and white women, sometimes allied and sometimes independently, became involved in anti-slavery activism earlier in the 1830s. When their activism took the form of speaking about political matters to large audiences, especially when those audiences were

Join one of our blog writers, Memoria, in remembering the iconic Midnight Ride as a fuller historical narrative, while also touching on Sybil Ludington, another icon of the Revolutionary War that has seeped into public memory. Join Memoria in exploring these two examples of public memory and how it impacts the way we learn history and let it define us today. Paul Revere has been an iconic figure in Boston ever since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s immortal 1861 poem “Paul Revere

The King and the ministers who managed the British Empire had one central goal: enriching England. The Industrial Revolution began in the English textile industry even before the American Revolution.