Apr
23
The First Woman To Vote: How the Woman With the Little Pail Leavened
America
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America
Photo: Louisa Ann Swain, Laramie, Wyoming It was September 6, 1870, and a little old lady, now seventy, placed a clean apron over her housedress and prepared to go on two important errands that morning. Before she walked out the door, she picked up a little tin pail to take with her. The streets of […]
Apr
18
Women Are Not Equal to Men
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Photo: Elizabeth Cady Stanton When the first press release went out announcing the publication of The Curse of 1920: The Degradation of Our Nation in the Last 100 Years, I was surprised to receive a reply from Coline Jenkins, the great-great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Of course Stanton is the 19th century suffragist and […]
Apr
18
‘Most Controversial Book of the Year’: ‘The Curse of 1920’
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Finally, conservative commentator Ann Coulter has someone to agree with her after making her outlandish comment regarding her “pipe dream†that we take “away women’s right to vote.†Yes, there is now a book out that espouses this same prescription. With its equally controversial message, it has the intriguing title, “The Curse of 1920,†and […]