Nineteenth Century America
Mary Elizabeth Garrett, the “Friday Evening” Group, and Coercive Philanthropy
In the course of researching my last blog post, I discovered Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915), the woman who founded and led the Women’s Medical Fund Committee, which raised the money that allowed the Johns Hopkins University medical school to open, and forced the school to admit women and to improve the quality of medical education.…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Anya Jabour
Anya Jabour has been studying, researching, teaching, and writing about US women’s history for more than three decades. Her latest book, Matters of Sex: Katharine Bement Davis and America’s First Sexual Revolution, is forthcoming from NYU Press in Fall 2026. You can learn more about her and her work at her website. Take it away,…
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Alice Barber Stephens, Illustrator (Yes, Another One)
You may have noticed that I’ve been sharing the stories of women artists and illustrators over the last few months. I didn’t set out to look for them, but one woman led to another. Like women warriors, women journalists and women inventors, even women artists who were well known and successful in their time are…
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