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Alice Reagan, Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College, gives a talk on the Occoquan Suffrage Prisoners. Photo by Steve Hibbard.
With Their Bravery During World War I, These Daring American Women Doctors Proved Their Might to Folks Back Home As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 ...
Boyer represented Pennsylvania at the NAWSA convention in Washington in February 1904, where she presented the report of the organization’s Committee on Legislation for Civil Rights.
Later, she was appointed national secretary of NAWSA and president of the Montana Women’s Suffrage Association, becoming the first woman to speak before the state legislature with a speech advocating ...
Mackenzie Reynolds, a McGillicuddy Humanities Center fellow, spoke on Sept. 17 regarding her project “Separate But Not Equal: Black Women’s Exclusion from Maine and Louisiana Suffrage, 1900 to 1925.” ...
Experience the power of suffrage theatre with Ghostlight Ensemble's presentation of Plays for Women!, a collection of overlooked suffrage plays at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum.
In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.
After serving on the NAWSA for 6 years, Tracy Cutler died on 11 February 1896 at 80 years old while on a trip to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs.
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. But Meredith Clark writes that the history of the time period is far different than what is ...
Nashville has slowly changed over time as new structures are built, old ones are torn down, and businesses have come and gone, but little pieces of history remain throughout the city.