Rebecca DeWolf, PhD
@rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963. (UNP, 2021) posts=my own thoughts. #ERA
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Historian | Rebecca DeWolf
Historian | Rebecca DeWolf. I am a writer and a historian with a PhD in history from American University.
www.rebeccadewolf.com
The University of Nebraska Press published my book, Gendered Citizenship, in 2021. To learn more about my research, please visit my website. www.rebeccadewolf.com
My latest piece for the Women & Politics Institute at AU. Gender will remain on the ballot for women until the Constitution robustly affirms women's status as full rights-bearing citizens. www.genderontheballot.org/gender-will-...
#womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
#womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
Gender will Remain on the Ballot for Women - Gender on the Ballot
In 1855, influential women’s rights activist Lucy Stone observed in a letter to her close friend, and future sister-in-law, Antoinette Brown, that “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, t...
www.genderontheballot.org
October 1, 2026 at 4:44 PM
My latest piece for the Women & Politics Institute at AU. Gender will remain on the ballot for women until the Constitution robustly affirms women's status as full rights-bearing citizens. www.genderontheballot.org/gender-will-...
#womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
#womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
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a lot of writers and podcasters need to learn that they are not entitled to freely adapt any book they take a liking to.
do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.
do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
July 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
a lot of writers and podcasters need to learn that they are not entitled to freely adapt any book they take a liking to.
do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.
do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.
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If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️
Here are the quotes Trump's NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument. Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.
June 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️
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On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth, a suffragist and abolitionist from New York, spoke at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron. She probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
May 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth, a suffragist and abolitionist from New York, spoke at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron. She probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
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Reposted by Rebecca DeWolf, PhD
I recently discovered that the Internet Archive has all copies of The Suffragist and Equal Rights and I could not possibly be more excited to geek out.
May 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
I recently discovered that the Internet Archive has all copies of The Suffragist and Equal Rights and I could not possibly be more excited to geek out.
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I revised this bio of Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow #hatm documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1011146165
Biographical Sketch of Rose Winslow (Ruza Wenclawska) | Alexander Street Documents
documents.alexanderstreet.com
May 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
I revised this bio of Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow #hatm documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1011146165
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Absolutely check out @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social fantastic book! You’ll learn a TON! And it’s a page turner 🤓 #HATM
If you want to learn more about this complicated history and the #ERA, check out my book #GenderedCitizenship. (5) #HATM
May 25, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Absolutely check out @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social fantastic book! You’ll learn a TON! And it’s a page turner 🤓 #HATM
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It wasn't a telegram but a letter. One of the most important in women's history. Febb Burn wrote to her son, Now Harry be a good boy and let your mother have the right to vote. Don’t underestimate what can result from one person taking a stand.
msmagazine.com/2025/08/22/w...
#hatm #suffs
msmagazine.com/2025/08/22/w...
#hatm #suffs
May 25, 2026 at 1:54 AM
It wasn't a telegram but a letter. One of the most important in women's history. Febb Burn wrote to her son, Now Harry be a good boy and let your mother have the right to vote. Don’t underestimate what can result from one person taking a stand.
msmagazine.com/2025/08/22/w...
#hatm #suffs
msmagazine.com/2025/08/22/w...
#hatm #suffs
Does the cause of women’s rights need more moderation or radicalism to advance its goals. That is a question that has punctuated the movement from the nineteenth century onward. #HATM
May 25, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Does the cause of women’s rights need more moderation or radicalism to advance its goals. That is a question that has punctuated the movement from the nineteenth century onward. #HATM
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They called it the “night of terror.” Force feeding is a very violent practice as Alice Paul knew well, having gone on hunger strike and been force fed during her imprisonment for suffrage activism in England in 1909. www.loc.gov/resource/rbc...
#hatm #suffs
#hatm #suffs
Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding
www.loc.gov
May 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
They called it the “night of terror.” Force feeding is a very violent practice as Alice Paul knew well, having gone on hunger strike and been force fed during her imprisonment for suffrage activism in England in 1909. www.loc.gov/resource/rbc...
#hatm #suffs
#hatm #suffs
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Many of the suffragists' banners were destroyed when they were attacked by crowds or arrested, but you can see a few of them-including the Young Are At The Gates at the Belmont-Paul House, the former National Women's Party HQ sited right next to the US capital #HATM #Suffs
www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Home to the National Woman's Party for more than 90 years, this was the epicenter of the struggle for women's rights. From this house in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court, Alice Paul an...
www.nps.gov
May 25, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Many of the suffragists' banners were destroyed when they were attacked by crowds or arrested, but you can see a few of them-including the Young Are At The Gates at the Belmont-Paul House, the former National Women's Party HQ sited right next to the US capital #HATM #Suffs
www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
As Paul and the NWP continue their White House protest with the eventual arrests and hunger strikes, Catt and NAWSA become more attractive to Wilson as a moderate solution to his problem of what to do about the women suffrage campaign. (1) #HATM
May 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
As Paul and the NWP continue their White House protest with the eventual arrests and hunger strikes, Catt and NAWSA become more attractive to Wilson as a moderate solution to his problem of what to do about the women suffrage campaign. (1) #HATM
The NWP is not asking for the vote. They are demanding it. That is a huge challenge to the gender norms of the dominant cultural consensus of the early twentieth century. #HATM
May 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The NWP is not asking for the vote. They are demanding it. That is a huge challenge to the gender norms of the dominant cultural consensus of the early twentieth century. #HATM
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I really love this song for Carrie Chapman Catt. It’s beautiful. It’s important to understand that Catt was exceedingly significant for the suffrage campaign’s eventual success. (1) #HATM
May 25, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I really love this song for Carrie Chapman Catt. It’s beautiful. It’s important to understand that Catt was exceedingly significant for the suffrage campaign’s eventual success. (1) #HATM