By Journey Moore-Prewitt Eliza McDermot was an Irish woman from New York who was described as being attracted to “the love of dress & wicked amusement.” For women of the time, this attraction was criminalized, as it went against the gender roles so heavily enforced at the time. Instead of relying on men or being… Continue reading Eliza McDermot: When Reform Fails
S22 - HIST056.01 - Police, Prisons, and Protest: Rosine Association Blog
Unearthing archival stories of 19th-century women as written by Mira Sharpless Townsend and enhanced by student work from History 56: “Police, Prisons, & Protests”