One of the focuses of P&L has always been to increase awareness of history as a means of understanding what is happening today. It is my belief that context is extremely important. It is my experience that a little knowledge about women’s history can radicalize even the most cynical feminine heart. Nothing makes a feminist faster than having a foundation in her own history.
With that in mind, I offers any and all women’s history posts published here at P&L free for re-publication by individuals or non-profit groups elsewhere on the web. Feel free to edit them for content not related (i.e. taking out personal references, etc). All I ask is attribution with a link back to P&L. Just copy and paste the post right into your own blog. No need to ask. Just do it. Just get it out there.
March 31, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Anna Belle,
I want to again thank you for all the research you have done to put together this information. I also learn much from your comments and analyses. You have a real gift! Thank you for sharing it with us.
I am the person who asked about using some of your Free Women’s History Posts for a series I put together for my local paper. I wanted to let you know how that turned out.
It took me about 10 days to put it together. There was enough information for at least a week’s worth of articles. I arranged it all chronologically and biographically, included pictures and listed all credits necessary for publication. It was titled, “Right in Our Back Yard: Women’s History has Special Meaning Here”. I met with some resistance on the part of the Editor of the paper, who is a woman. It took 2 emails and a visit to the paper’s office, over the course of a week, to get any response from her. When she finally responded it was to tell me that she had received it too late to publish it during this Women’s History Month. Of course, I had assumed the paper was doing something for Women’s History Month and so I did not think it would be necessary to put something together myself. She also said she probably would have come at from a different angle, writing about unknown local women connected to the history of women’s rights activities. I agreed and offered to help put something like that together for next year. I can’t tell you how difficult it was for me to remain civil and calm, but for benefit of promoting women’s rights and issues I did. I finally rewrote the introductory letter I had written for the series and asked her to publish it as a Letter to the Editor or a Guest Essay. She chose to print it as a guest essay and it ended up being front and center on the Insight section of the Sunday edition of the paper. It was a fitting ending to Women’s History Month, in as much as, readers were left with a memory of the important role our area has played in the struggle for women’s rights. I am attaching the PDF of the essay, I hope you will be able to open it and read it.
Thank you again for everything you do.
Deborah Barr Stevens
Romulus, NY

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April 6, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Hey,
I’m working with a new national organization that will support Hillary Clinton. I’d like to get in touch with the main blogger for this site. Can you please email me at ?
Thanks and Go Hillary!
– Cam