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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life

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Detail of landscape painting Villa Menaggio, Lago di Como by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.

Transcending the Glass Ceiling

Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due.

by Lydia Moland via The American Scholar on March 27, 2025

Portrait of Lydia Maria Child reading a book. Courtesy the Smithsonian/NMAAHC

Lydia Maria Child and the Vexed Role of the Woman Abolitionist

Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.

by Lydia Moland via Aeon on March 27, 2023

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln hangs behind President Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House

Activists Have Always Been Frustrated at Allies’ Insistence on Gradual Change

Why abolitionist Lydia Maria Child raged at President Lincoln’s political calculations.

by Lydia Moland via Made By History on March 28, 2022

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