History, Witticisms, Girl Power: Welcome to Our Website

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Hi all, Alex and Caitlin here! This will be our first official post on our spanking new website. We have uploaded and post-dated material from the Facebook page, so we can look back together on some of our past history adventures with fondness too.

With this upgrade, we hope to continue bring you the best in fun factoids, hilarious history lessons, crafty research tips, and current events soon to be historical. Plus some extra nerding out over everything from pizza to Star Wars. Basically, we blog about the things that make us laugh, cry, and generally appreciate the past and the present. We hope you enjoy, and let us know what you'd like to hear more about!

For our inaugural  post, we are sharing our favorite find from some newspaper scouring we did this past week while in search of a few Civil War soldiers later in life. This political cartoon was published on June 9, 1919; five days after the proposed 19th Amendment was passed by the Senate.  As the cartoon depicts, women had a lot more small hurdles left to go before they officially had the vote.  But, the following day, on June 10th, the first three states-Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan-ratified the 19th Amendment.  On August 26, 1920, 3/4s of the states had ratified, and the 19th Amendment was officially enacted. Mississippi didn't bother to ratify until 1984 however... Oh Mississippi.