Cathleen D Cahill
Biographic Data
| ID | 646149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathleen D Cahill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathleen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahill |
| SIGNATURE | CAHILL C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representation Matters
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
The figure of Anthony Comstock may seem like an odd historical relic: a repressed, puritanical, anti-sex reformer from a bygone past. And yet, because his namesake act has been revived as a potential strategy for limiting access to reproductive healthcare, Comstock is no joke. Today, some Americans see the Comstock Act, passed by Congress in 1873, as a pathway to banning abortion and other reproductive care, effectively jettisoning any need for n…
Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s 1915 Pennsylvania Suffrage Speaking Tour Scrapbook
In 1915 woman’s suffrage was on the ballot in Pennsylvania. State suffrage organizations mounted a vibrant campaign using a variety of strategies in support of enfranchising the women of the Keystone State. Speakers played a central role in this campaign, including a four-month lecture tour by African American author and educator, Alice Dunbar-Nelson. She kept a scrapbook of her tour that reveals her recognition of its historical significance. He…
“Our Democracy and the American Indian”
In 1890, national suffrage organizations reunited to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the pinnacle of federal assimilation policies that aimed to destroy the cultural and political structures of Indigenous nations and to assimilate them into the citizenry of the United States. This chapter focuses on two Native feminist intellectuals, Laura Cornelius Kellogg and Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Sa. These two women may have been…
Lauren C. Santangelo. Suffrage and the City
Why They Marched
Susan Ware's Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote is a delightful, enlightening, and eminently readable set of suffrage stories. The book is a “prosopography,” or an overlapping set of nineteen biographical essays that individually make for pleasant reading but together make up a sweeping overview of the breadth of the suffrage movement. The nineteen-chapter structure is a deliberate nod to the Nineteenth…
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Two generations away from slavery in her own family, Carrie Williams Clifford was born in the free state of Ohio in 1862. She came of age during Reconstruction and watched conditions for African Americans erode in the Jim Crow era. Cognizant of the way white Americans were crafting historical narratives to elide black presence and freedoms, she resisted by highlighting the richness of black history, including women’s history, in her poetry, journ…
Expanding the Suffrage Archive
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“Our Sisters in China Are Free”
Both white and Chinese American suffragists in the United States closely watched and discussed the events of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the establishment of the Chinese Republic (1912–1949). They were aware of the republican revolutionaries’ support for women's rights, which conflicted with American stereotypes of China as a backward nation, especially in its treatment of women. Chinese suffragists, real and imagined, became a major talki…
Recasting the Vote
We think we know the story of women’s suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York’s Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equalit…
Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest
This article explores the careers and political activism of Native opera singers in the Southwest of the 1920s. I argue that a number of talented Native artists recognized that engaging their audiences directly in live performances provided opportunities for public education in addition to their economic benefits. Partnering with regional boosters, they built careers performing in multiple pageants and events sponsored by municipalities across th…
“An Indian Teacher among Indians”
Scholars have emphasized that policymakers designed the federal Indian school system to assimilate Native children and create a colonial labor force by training Native female students for primarily menial domestic labor. Inadvertently, these policies brought thousands of Native people into the Indian Service in both the white-collar and the menial sector. However, we know very little about them, why they took those jobs, and how they strategicall…
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Marie Louise Bottineau BaldwinIndigenizing the Federal Indian Service Cathleen D. Cahill (bio) To promote all efforts looking to the advancement of the Indian in enlightenment which leave him free, as a man, to develop according to the natural laws of social evolution. [End Page 64] When Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (Ojibwa/French), an attorney in the Indian Office, submitted a photograph for her personnel file in compliance with the federal ci…
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Federal Fathers and Mothers
Archive Stories
Archive Stories
Federal Fathers and Mothers
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Marie Louise Bottineau BaldwinIndigenizing the Federal Indian Service Cathleen D. Cahill (bio) To promote all efforts looking to the advancement of the Indian in enlightenment which leave him free, as a man, to develop according to the natural laws of social evolution. [End Page 64] When Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (Ojibwa/French), an attorney in the Indian Office, submitted a photograph for her personnel file in compliance with the federal ci…
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
“An Indian Teacher among Indians”
Scholars have emphasized that policymakers designed the federal Indian school system to assimilate Native children and create a colonial labor force by training Native female students for primarily menial domestic labor. Inadvertently, these policies brought thousands of Native people into the Indian Service in both the white-collar and the menial sector. However, we know very little about them, why they took those jobs, and how they strategicall…
Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest
This article explores the careers and political activism of Native opera singers in the Southwest of the 1920s. I argue that a number of talented Native artists recognized that engaging their audiences directly in live performances provided opportunities for public education in addition to their economic benefits. Partnering with regional boosters, they built careers performing in multiple pageants and events sponsored by municipalities across th…
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Two generations away from slavery in her own family, Carrie Williams Clifford was born in the free state of Ohio in 1862. She came of age during Reconstruction and watched conditions for African Americans erode in the Jim Crow era. Cognizant of the way white Americans were crafting historical narratives to elide black presence and freedoms, she resisted by highlighting the richness of black history, including women’s history, in her poetry, journ…
Expanding the Suffrage Archive
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
“Our Sisters in China Are Free”
Both white and Chinese American suffragists in the United States closely watched and discussed the events of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the establishment of the Chinese Republic (1912–1949). They were aware of the republican revolutionaries’ support for women's rights, which conflicted with American stereotypes of China as a backward nation, especially in its treatment of women. Chinese suffragists, real and imagined, became a major talki…
Recasting the Vote
We think we know the story of women’s suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York’s Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equalit…
Why They Marched
Susan Ware's Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote is a delightful, enlightening, and eminently readable set of suffrage stories. The book is a “prosopography,” or an overlapping set of nineteen biographical essays that individually make for pleasant reading but together make up a sweeping overview of the breadth of the suffrage movement. The nineteen-chapter structure is a deliberate nod to the Nineteenth…
Lauren C. Santangelo. Suffrage and the City
“Our Democracy and the American Indian”
In 1890, national suffrage organizations reunited to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the pinnacle of federal assimilation policies that aimed to destroy the cultural and political structures of Indigenous nations and to assimilate them into the citizenry of the United States. This chapter focuses on two Native feminist intellectuals, Laura Cornelius Kellogg and Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Sa. These two women may have been…
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
The figure of Anthony Comstock may seem like an odd historical relic: a repressed, puritanical, anti-sex reformer from a bygone past. And yet, because his namesake act has been revived as a potential strategy for limiting access to reproductive healthcare, Comstock is no joke. Today, some Americans see the Comstock Act, passed by Congress in 1873, as a pathway to banning abortion and other reproductive care, effectively jettisoning any need for n…
Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s 1915 Pennsylvania Suffrage Speaking Tour Scrapbook
In 1915 woman’s suffrage was on the ballot in Pennsylvania. State suffrage organizations mounted a vibrant campaign using a variety of strategies in support of enfranchising the women of the Keystone State. Speakers played a central role in this campaign, including a four-month lecture tour by African American author and educator, Alice Dunbar-Nelson. She kept a scrapbook of her tour that reveals her recognition of its historical significance. He…
Representation Matters
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