No longer active here. Find me at https://teapaw.org/t.co/8yya2IKTSk. Writer & historian. Author, THE DIVORCE COLONY
Joined May 2014
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Our Influential Women Book Club members are getting the September pick now! We're reading THE DIVORCE COLONY from @AprWhite 😃 Get it from us here: thebookbungalow.com/book/978…
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Looking forward to reading this article by @AprWhite in @SmithsonianMag. After I read it, I’ll track down THE DIVORCE COLONY. (Side note: The first 29 of my 44 trips around the star were in Sioux Falls, SD.) #midwesthistory
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The Case of DC’s Missing Liberty Bell: @washingtonian’s covers our search for DC’s 1950 replica Bell, which vanished in 1979 during a rebuild of Pennsylvania Ave. Remember the Bell? Know what happened? Let us know! (Kudos to @AprWhite for a great article!) washingtonian.com/2023/03/01…
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Here are some of the #Nonfiction #History #Books that the Smithsonian deemed the best of 2022: bit.ly/3P6RJZs. @mattdelmont @Freedland @klytlehernandez @megankatenelson @candice_millard @AprWhite @smithsonian #AuthorsOfTwitter #BookLovers #BookRecommendations
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ICPL Staff picked out their Best of the Best books for 2022.
April White's "The Divorce Colony," tells the riveting true story of how Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.
#BestOfTheBest22
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Short-Term Research Fellow @AprWhite shares the experience of Finding Flora - one of the many women underseen in family papers @nypl: nypl.org/blog/2022/11/15/fin…
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Prepping to interview April White tonight at the Old Courthouse Museum in Sioux Falls. We shall sit in the space where divorce was reviled, revered, reimagined.
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Tomorrow night: Head to @HeadHouseBooks to watch The Citizen's @roxanneshep interview author @AprWhite about her new #book, "The Divorce Colony." 6:30pm! #books #divorce #philly
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Our latest is on how Sioux Falls became the nation’s divorce colony. How did that begin, who came to escape bad marriages and how did it end? #SDHistory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Today's history book recommendation courtesy of Damn History, the free monthly newsletter for readers & writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @AprWhite and @HachetteBooks!
Learn more about the Damn History newsletter: tinyletter.com/jelhai
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This book has been *raking in* all the well-deserved praise but man, if this WSJ review doesn't hit a lil' different 🥰 SO PROUD OF YOU, @AprWhite !!! I love this book SO damn much and it's incredibly rewarding to see that everyone else feels the same way.
From the pages of the @WSJ this morning (!): THE DIVORCE COLONY is "entertaining and edifying." wsj.com/articles/the-divorce…
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Pleased to announce that @AprWhite will join us for a future episode! Stay tuned!
There's a review in today's @wsj of the new book about Sioux Falls in the 1880s, when rich Eastern socialites came out to stay to get a quick divorce--note the great photo of the Cataract Hotel (named for the falls on the Big Sioux River) @AprWhite wsj.com/articles/the-divorce…
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I love this episode! Fascinating!
I want to know see a film or TV series about women in the divorce colony! 💗
In the late 1800s, women started traveling to Sioux Falls in South Dakota. They came from big cities like New York and Chicago - and they all came for one reason. They wanted to get a divorce. Listen to our latest: buff.ly/39bMpmx
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In today’s episode, we talk with @AprWhite about a murder trial, a woman who traveled west for her freedom, and the bizarre history of divorce in America. Listen here: buff.ly/39bMpmx
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Dracut native April White is coming home to talk to us about her new book, The Divorce Colony! Come enjoy this in-person event on Wed. 8/10 at 6:30 p.m. As always, this event is free, but space is limited so please register at dracutlibrary.org/events
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In our latest, we speak with historian and author @AprWhite about a love triangle, poison, and a trial that the New York Herald sent its drama critic to cover. bit.ly/3varqJ1
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Author April White visited @AugieCWS and researched in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota archives for her new book on Sioux Falls' "divorce colony" history.
In her new book “The Divorce Colony,” April White follows the story of four East Coast women who moved to Sioux Falls between during a 20-year period at the turn of the century to end their marriages because of South Dakota’s lax divorce laws. argusleader.com/story/news/2…
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This book centers on historic examples of women with money to travel to another state to make a decision that’s best for them. If only there were a modern-day equivalent to help us understand this a bit better. 1/x
In her new book “The Divorce Colony,” April White follows the story of four East Coast women who moved to Sioux Falls between during a 20-year period at the turn of the century to end their marriages because of South Dakota’s lax divorce laws. argusleader.com/story/news/2…
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Most states banned divorce in the late 19th century. So women seeking to end their marriages traveled to Sioux Falls to take advantage of South Dakota’s liberal divorce laws. wapo.st/3bP0FCQ
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On Smarty Pants, @AprWhite talks about her new book, THE DIVORCE COLONY, and why the struggle for the right to *end* a marriage was just as important as the right to *begin* one. @hachettebooks theamericanscholar.org/split…
