Laura R. Prieto
writer, historian, feminist scholar | firstgen to PhD | Latina daughter of immigrants | many languages spoken | co-directing the Mary Eliza Project & writing about women's suffrage movements across U.S. empire
- Because housewives are also part of history. And sometimes they aren’t just housewives. #WomensHistory #BlackWomensHistory #WomenInHistory
- How did citizenship affect U.S. women’s right to vote in 1920? 🧵👇🏼
- On August 5, 1920, Sarah Moses Bronkhurst Polak of 708 Columbus Ave in Boston lined up to claim her right to vote. Sarah’s journey to the Boston voter registration table took her across several national borders and showcased how marriage could impact women's voting rights. 🧵 @hubhistory.com
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoFor a limited time you can read my book for free. Each one, teach one. www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
- Thank you to Kate Helen Downey for interviewing me about the history of #feminism, the women's health movement, and @OurBodiesOurselves for her great new podcast, "Cramped"! You can listen to the show at www.katehelendowney.com/cramped #WomensHistory #WomenInHistory #WomensHealth
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
- My latest post for @maryelizaproject.bsky.social, full of personal resonance today.
- 23-year-old Hester B. Smith lined up to register to vote in Boston on October 13, 1920, just in time to qualify to cast her ballot in the upcoming Presidential election. A Black woman from Charlottesville, Virginia, she no doubt had experienced racial segregation and discrimination, & perhaps worse.
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoOn #PresidentsDay 1914 (celebrated as Washington’s Birthday), future new voter Eunice S. Coyle won second prize, $25, for her essay on how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall interpreted the Constitution from he Old South Association. Image: @BostonGlobe, February 24, 1914.
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoIt’s a new chapter for Our Bodies Ourselves! Suffolk University is now the global hub for the iconic feminist resource, and OBOS is ready to advance its powerful legacy through Suffolk’s Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. 1/5
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoNEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoOn National Women Physicians Day we are spotlighting Ward 23 New Voter Dr. Laura H. Muir (née Barbrick), who registered to vote on October 11th, 1920. Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, @nypl”
- It’s not just the official narrative history of US foreign relations that’s vanished. All the historical documents are also gone from the site. #history #shafr #censorship #InfoBlackout
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- Spoiler alert: Maude Trotter Stewart was not just a housewife. My latest for @maryelizaproject.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Suffrage #CivilRightsHistory #BlackBoston #BostonHistory
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoMost scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
- In my latest post for the Mary Eliza Project, I wrote about reformer Zilpha Drew Smith, registering to vote in Boston in 1920. #WomensHistory #WomensSuffrage #MaryElizaProject
- Born #OTD, January 25, was one of the earliest Boston women to claim their equal right to vote: Zilpha Drew Smith (1852-1926). She registered to vote on August 4, 1920, weeks before Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment. Image: Registry from Boston City Archives
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- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoThe 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, and women in Boston had until October 13 to register to vote for that year’s presidential election. On October 13, almost 11,000 women registered. The chaos of Oct 13 is apparent in many of the last pages of the registers (Dorchester’s Ward 18).
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoWhat is this strange contraption? A dictaphone! In August 1920, in the first month that women could register to vote due to the 19th Amendment, Bostonian Sarah J. Risk signed her name to the register with the occupation “dictaphone operator” at the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company.
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoMapping and interpreting the Boston Women Voters dataset is both exciting and challenging. One of the challenges the Mary Eliza Team faces is interpreting and analyzing new voters’ birthplaces.
- I’m presenting with @maryelizaproject.bsky.social this evening, talking about the diverse & interesting women who registered to vote in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood in 1920! I hope you’ll join us if you can. #womeninhistory
- Mark your calendars for a #MaryElizaProject public event! Come meet some of the Mary Eliza Team members as we present live and in person: BRIGHTON WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Boston Women's Voter Registers Free and Open to the Public!
- Welcome #MaryEliza! Im proud to be part of the MEP team. Follow us for stories of the 56k+ surprisingly diverse, unsung women who registered to vote in Boston in 1920. Maps & data & more as well! #WomenInHistory #SuffrageHistory and #BostonHistory #PublicHumanities
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoThe Mary Eliza Project is a collaborative public humanities initiative that uses historic records to illuminate diverse women’s political engagement in Boston. We focus on the historical moment of 1920. 🧵
- I’m honored to be quoted in this new Vox article by Anna North, about the origins and meanings of the latest vile misogynistic slogan. www.vox.com/politics/384... #OurBodiesOurselves #WomensActivism #Backlash #ReproRightsHistory
- Today WBUR replayed its Radio Boston interview with me and my amazing #MaryElizaProject colleagues Marta Crilly & Erin Wiebe. It was so much fun talking to Carrie Jung about the archives and stories of the city’s newly enfranchised women voters. #womenshistory www.wbur.org/radioboston/... 🗃️
- An academic riddle: Made my first #interlibraryloan request at my new university despite being neither faculty nor student. #fishnorfoul #amresearching #amwriting #indyscholar #unistaff
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoBoston Globe: look at these women doing amazing things! But we won't tell you who they are. 📚 @laurarprieto.bsky.social @phdrachel.bsky.social @archifydd.bsky.social
- @rauchway.bsky.social please add me to the What’s History 🗃️ list, thank you!
- In 2011, an Israeli organization called Women and their Bodies simultaneously published “Al Mara wa Kayanha” in Arabic and “Nashim LeGufan” in Hebrew. 350 contributors worked together for 6 years, sharing resources to produce the two books. www.ourbodiesourselves.org/global-proje...
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoNow available in paperback for preorder. nyupress.org/978147983094... 🗃️ 🎓🌈 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Laura R. PrietoSo grateful to Laura Prieto for her generous engagement with “What is a Missionary Good For, Anyway?” at H-Diplo. YES to more c19 US foreign relations history! And for all the new questions/categories/actors that chronological shift opens up… networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
