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Alexandria Celebrates Women: “A loathsome place”
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
More than 150 years ago, in an age when most women were expected to “remember their place,” two women...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: The story of Julia Johns, community pioneer
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
The daughter of Julianna Johnson and Episcopal bishop John Johns, Julia Johns was in her early 30s when she...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Extraordinary women in extraordinary times
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Alexandria women have played a prominent role in helping the city survive a history of contagious disease outbreaks. Here...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: Honoring Alexandria’s women on the front lines
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Whether caring for the sick and wounded during the American Civil War, helping during the 1918 influenza pandemic or...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: A tale of four sisters
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Try to imagine being captured from an overloaded boat on open water and sold to a notorious Alexandria slave...
Women in state and federal office
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
The next United States Presidential Inauguration is slated to look a bit different. For the first time in the...
Women: A strong political force
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
As we celebrate this centennial year of the American woman’s right to vote, we find ourselves a few short...
The story of 1600s landowner ‘Gentleman’ Margaret Brent
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Margaret Brent, a woman with strong ties to the geographic region that would become Alexandria, asked for the right...
The story of the ratification of the 19th Amendment
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
One hundred years ago this month, American women achieved the right to vote. August 2020 marks the ratification anniversary...
Exhibit celebrates women’s suffrage centennial
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
There is a new exhibit at the Torpedo Factory in honor of the women’s suffrage centennial.
The 19th amendment to the...
