Yes primary sources are essential for research. Got to go to the first-hand source

Yes, I love that the musical gave more depth to Carrie Chapman Catt than how she is usually portrayed in comparison to Paul.

Same :(

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I have that book too. Going to read it this summer :)

Oh fascinating, I will need to look at those sources when I get to the next book project.

So interesting, thank you for sharing!

same!

Yes 🙌

This is AWESOME! Such great source materials.

Thank you!!

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.

If you want to learn more about this complicated history and the #ERA, check out my book #GenderedCitizenship. (5) #HATM

But it would take an extremely arduous and contentious almost three-year drafting process before they would conclude that women needed complete constitutional sexual equality to fully emancipate women from the subservient status that they had historically occupied in the U.S. legal tradition.4 #HATM

And they knew that they wanted to clarify women’s legal personhood in the wake of federal woman suffrage. (3) #HATM

Yes, Paul and other NWP members knew that they had wanted to do something about the vast array of sex-based legal distinctions that had continued to give men authority over women in law and in custom. (2) #HATM