I hope it’s okay for me to share this. I’m just so sincerely excited. There was a time when I didn’t even believe I could write a book. ❤️ And now another step closer to it being a reality.
YAY! I GET TO TEACH US WOMEN'S HISTORY SURVEY THIS SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🥰🥳I've waited for this moment for four years!!! I am so happy.❤️
Came in the mail today. Brand new 2022, Yale University Press. This is one of the required books for my senior thesis class on Immigration and Ethnicity in US History!
#OTD
in
#History
1919,
#Congress
passed the 19th Amendment. In 1878, the 1st version was introduced to the Senate, but female suffrage was never voted on. Yet by 1919, it took just 2 weeks to pass both chambers, enabling a 15-month fight for ratification—and progress—to commence.
I feel blessed and grateful today for so many reasons. One is I just got word that my book on the woman suffrage movement with
@NYUpress
will be published next spring in March. I know not everyone gets an opportunity to publish a book. It's a dream come true!
Opened messages to good news this morning. My historiography of woman suffrage (journal article) was accepted for pub! This summer, I have another article coming out in July and 2 forthcoming chapters in edited collections as well as other projects like a new book in progress! 🎉
Tomorrow is publication day for my book!
To celebrate, the first person to comment here will get a free signed copy.
Next 5 to comment will get 1 free signed bookplate sticker to add to their copy and a suffrage pin!
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I loved getting to research and write about this story! Old Saybrook has an amazing history. Connecticut’s shoreline has an interesting prohibition connection!
Cornfields, sunken lightships, and a base for the illegal liquor trade during Prohibition? What else has happened at Cornfield Point in Old Saybrook over the years?
New article from
@K_Marino1
about Cornfield Point's long history:
#cthistory
Just came in the mail today!! 🌈 📚 I read Jean Baker’s book Sisters about the personal lives of suffragists when I was really young and Lillian Faderman’s work and loved it. Happy to officially add this book to my library!
#twitterstorians
I'm going to be working on a presentation today about teaching women's suffrage to K-12 students for workshops that I'm giving at a conference for Fairfield teachers next week. Let me know if you know of any resources that you think I should highlight!
Hey
#twitterstorians
, I’m getting ready to submit my book order for my spring seminar on the US in the 1960s and 70s, any suggestions for must have required reading?
About a week away from publication of my monograph!
#twitterstorians
#suffrage
Would love to see pictures if you preordered it when it comes in! Am going to be doing a social media give away of a signed copy and a few other things next week to celebrate!
I’m stuck in the house because I started a new medicine that can have serious side effects at first. I bought popover mix at the store to cheer myself up. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever had a popover. They are amazing!! How did I live without these?
Pray for my father tonight who suffered a stroke and was transported from Middlesex to UCONN for a procedure. Don't know what I'd do w/o the guy who inspired my career... taking me to museums and teaching me about antiques as a kid and wishing he had been a Social Studies teacher
My monograph in
@NYUpress
catalog! Getting ready to start final grade calculations today. Stalled yesterday to give students time to get in missing work.
One of the books just came for my women’s history class for this spring. I’m really excited to share some of the articles and primary sources from some of the best of the best historians in my field with my students. 🎉
Today, I found out that I got a faculty fellowship from the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Sacred Heart, and I couldn't be more excited! Looking forward to participating in interesting conversations about developing students critical thinking skills this academic year!😀💃
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I'm a modern US historian. I'm currently working on a short historiography section for a journal article on nineteenth century women's labor organizing. (side project) What are some must cite/consider books and articles?
One of my students shared this today. We had a lot of volunteers in class trying their birthdays. If women could be drafted, my mother would have been the only one in my family sent to Vietnam based on her DOB.
Grading finals. The 3 classes that I had this fall were the best that I’ve ever had in 7 years of being a professor. There were so many students who I met that were such wonderful humans. I enjoyed each day. We learned from each other. I will miss them. 📚
I just have to finish proofreading the footnotes early in the week and adding the signals for the images, and by the end of this week, the first full draft of my book will be at the press! I almost can’t believe it! One step closer! 📕
New purchase! & Yes! We do state and local history in my courses! ❤️ We watched part of the documentary on CT in WWII yesterday. The students loved it!
Yesterday, created tentative title for my second monograph and a chapter outline! Sent requests last week for secondary works like
@outofthetowerh
’s book on the ERA and forms for primary sources at Lib. of Congress! 📙🤞
Reading through my notes for monograph 2 to start thinking about the structure. I feel like this needs to be the opening line of the book: A journalist wrote in 1920, “The fight for equal suffrage is over, the fight of women in politics has begun.”
This was an exciting morning!! I was able to see the hard copies of the first Op-Ed that I wrote on women’s suffrage in the New Haven Register and the Middletown Press. A kind man working at a gas station gave me extra copies.
My first conference was the NEHA at Salem State as a 23 year old master’s student over ten years ago. Giving a paper at the conference as a professor at (34 years old) for the first time today was an exciting moment!
Do you guys think I can surprise them? I attached a bag with a free copy of my book and a thank you note to their door! Appreciated their kindness yesterday! I love Connecticut and always will support state and local history! 📚
The 11 students from my year-long senior thesis class, who wrote 30-40 page capstone papers based on primary source research on US immigration and ethnic history, are giving final presentations today at the mini conference they all played a role in planning. Very proud!
It’s been exciting to watch more libraries acquiring my book on World Cat. I check every few days. I finished a small project early yesterday, so I will spend the next three days writing book 2. 📚 ☔️
I just got an email that said my book was being sent to production at the press! That seems like a really good sign!! I should be getting a publication date soon!
I submitted a new journal article for first consideration today!🤞Rewarded myself by trying out the new shower steamer set I got for Christmas and leftover pecan pie from NYE! 🥧
Had a lot of fun speaking for Wilton Historical Society and the League of Women Voters tonight! Got this awesome new button to add to my suffrage office display!
When I was a grad student
@AdamLaats
told me to save all of the writing I was cutting from my dissertation. That made a HUGE difference in speeding up and making easier the development of my book! I will always remember and share that valuable advice!
I’m hoping to carve out time this weekend to edit footnotes on early sections, but I’m actually only one chapter draft away from having first complete version of book manuscript minus intro and conclusion. So lucky to be working w/
@NYUpress
and to be able to pursue this dream!📕
Happy to be getting closer and closer to final submission of my first book. I’m so excited to have the opportunity to see it in print! I’ve come up with an idea for an edited volume and also plan to write a new journal article in June that I hope to expand on for monograph 2.
I have a lot of deadlines this month. I’m trying to get a plan in place to catch up. 😴 I completely redesigned my online modern US survey class and opened it today. Hopefully, the students like it. 🤞
I had so much fun last night working at the Iron Jawed Angels film screening and discussion for students with colleagues! Always a powerful movie and voting and voting rights always a relevant topic!
#onthisday
In 1917, US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for protesting women's rights in Washington. This article reminds us that the movement that produced the 19th amendment had both deep historical roots and a global context.
Feeling like I’m finally turning the corner on COVID-19 after a rough week. 3 more doses of anti-viral meds left. I look forward to being healthy again and seeing the ocean! 🌊
Planning to work on final research/writing project bf transitioning to teaching & SHU.
-Final copy of book submitted. Book now in production.
-2 blog posts
-peer review
-revised & resubmitted article
-new article submitted
Just one more to go, and I’ll meet my summer goals!