EarlyAmWomen

tweets by Thomas A. Foster, editor of Women in Early America (NYU Press)

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

"As a scholar who focuses on early America, I would add that such museums must also include centuries of dynamic history prior to the 20th century."

[DeNeen Brown @DeNeenLBrown]

“Angela,” one of the first African women to arrive on these shores in what is now Virginia, survived the Middle Passage, a pirate attack, a famine, and the brutality of slavery. Her story should be in every history book. https://t.co/4eYd1iIezN

[Dr Misha Ewen @mishaewen]

My NEW @HistoricalJnl article is now available: 'Women Investors & the Virginia Company in the Early Seventeenth Century' https://t.co/X6ufYEZy3x
#merchants #women #colonisation #trade #twitterstorians
@UoMhistdept @UoMSALC @ForCultures @WComEHS

[Martha S. Jones @marthasjones_]

It’s a great day to finalize that #Berks2020 proposal! 2020 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Deadline: Sunday, March 17, 2019 https://t.co/2zGGd8aFGY

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

"Teach My Book: Ann M. Little on The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright" #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/Ww5r1ALYWy

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

"Join us, during Women's History Month, in raising $3,000 for a PHMC Historical Marker to share her inspiring story." https://t.co/xR8dKATjXr

[MAKERS @MAKERSwomen]

FACT. ✊ #WomensHistoryMonth

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

"The untold stories of slaves who lived in Abigail Adams’s birthplace" https://t.co/sJasaQT4ou via @BostonGlobe

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"White Women and the Economy of Slavery" @sejr_historian https://t.co/rzJb4JAbLn

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

Google Doodle honors abolitionist Sojourner Truth

https://t.co/456uQi9y06

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

"Hidden women of history: María, a slave in Manila who resisted sexual exploitation" https://t.co/K0CADM7Wii via @ConversationEDU

[Sharon Block @ShazBlock]

It's never been like this before? When will we acknowledge that rape has long been part of U.S. history: beginning with indigenous dispossession and trans-Atlantic slavery. It continues to disproportionately affect descendant communities today. #RapeIsNotAPoliticalPloy

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

must-see TV

[EarlyAmWomen @EarlyAmWomen]

New book! "How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years."

[Zara Anishanslin @ZaraAnishanslin]

“Monks were often assumed to be scribes over nuns.” But the material record puts women back into #labor and #art #history. As it tends to do.

#materialculture #beyondthearchive

“Rare blue pigment found in medieval woman's teeth rewrites history” @CNN https://t.co/zZuwwq7pGE

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

A historical cookbook shows how enslaved African women ensured the survival of their families through epicurean innovation #slaveryarchive https://t.co/pYTBUGokqY

[Allison K. Lange @aklange1]

That feeling when you turn the corner and run into Judith Sargent Murray! She was writing On the Equality of the Sexes when Copley painted her—not that you can tell from the portrait, which emphasizes her fertility (the flowers) #museums #womenshistory #aha19

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

In slavery, New Year's Day came with fear of family separation. Harriet Ann Jacobs wrote: "to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning." #slaveryarchive

[The Huntington @TheHuntington]

Tomorrow at 7:30pm, hear from Mary Sarah Bilder as she examines responses from #GeorgeWashington and others to the 1787 university lectures of Eliza Harriot O'Connor, the first American female lecturer. https://t.co/DTFL08KdCD

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

Mary Katharine Goddard was likely the United States government’s first female employee. https://t.co/XDtGE1QhOk