On the night of November 14, 1917, 31 suffragists and members of the National Woman’s Party (“NWP”) were taken to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and tortured and beaten. This so-called “Night of Terror” captured national headlines at the time and has been memorialized through digital sites today. This article examines versions of the Night of Terror from the NWP’s official newspaper, The Suffragist, national newspapers of the day gathered from the Chronicling America database, and modern digital memorials of the event to understand the ways that the mediated telling of events create the fractured popular memories that are retold as the authoritative version of events. In the case of the Night of Terror, the NWP’s media strategies appealed strongly to pathos and captured public imagination then and now, making these retellings the narrative embedded in history as the authoritative version.

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“要求妇女自由”：恐怖之夜和公众记忆

1917年11月14日晚上，有31名选举权主义者和全国妇女党（NWP）成员被带到弗吉尼亚州的奥科奎恩工作室（Occoquan Workhouse）并受到酷刑和殴打。所谓的“恐怖之夜”在当时占据了全国头条新闻，并已通过当今的数字网站进行了纪念。本文研究了NWP官方报纸《萨夫拉格主义者》，从《美国编年史》数据库中收集的当日国家报纸以及该事件的现代数字纪念馆的《恐怖之夜》的版本，以了解事件的媒介讲述是如何造成骨折的。作为事件的权威版本而被回忆的流行记忆。在恐怖之夜的情况下，NWP的媒体策略强烈吸引了悲痛，并吸引了当时和现在的公众想象力，