International Women’s Day, 2016
When Brewers Posed as Farmers to Defeat Woman Suffrage The use of populist posturing to win votes is much discussed in the blogosphere this electoral season. In 1915, a populist campaign designed not to...
Category: Women
The Joan of Arc of Shelton, the Efficiency Man, the O’Brien’s, and Sidney Blumenthal
On January 3, 1914, three hundred men and women who were on strike at the Shelton mill of Sidney Blumenthal marched in a solemn funeral procession from the “Cement House,” up the Fourth Street...
When Attitudes toward World War Divided the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement
On September 20, 1917, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer ran a special feature, reprinting in full the letters of resignation from the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association written by two of the state movement’s most prominent...
A Women’s History Month Find: Working Girls’ Clubs in Connecticut, 1911
New stories that enrich the history of women in our state emerge as more and more issues of Connecticut’s historic newspapers are uploaded to the Chronicling America searchable database. A January 25, 1911 article...
Newspaper Digitization and the Connecticut Homefront in World War I
The newspapers currently being digitized by CDNP are expected to contribute greatly to research into the ways that the First World War was experienced in Connecticut. A talk on this subject was delivered on...
Notes for Women’s History Month: When Bridgeport Women Won the Eight Hour Day
The social transformations wrought by World War I in the U.S. were profound. One of the most dramatic involved the entry of tens of thousands of mostly young working women into jobs in the...
Notes for the August 26th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage Victory
On August 26, 1920, after a struggle of more than seven decades, the right of women to vote became law. The roster of suffrage movement leaders from Connecticut is long and full of illustrious...