Demanding Women and a Progressive Era Tiger Mom

  March is Women’s History Month and PBS’s American Experience recently reminded us about the early twentieth-century activism that formed the background for Rosa Sutton’s crusade for justice for her dead son. Between 1900 and 1910 women’s determination to gain the right to vote increased. Initial efforts, however, did not include Black women who fought…

The Eagle is Shreiking Louder Than Ever Before

“There is nothing which will make the eagle shriek louder than the shadow of a muzzle for the press,” John L. Given wrote in 1907.* In that same year, a young Marine Corps Lieutenant died on the grounds of the Naval Academy after a brawl. His mother’s crusade to find the truth about what really…