In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s ...

They were generally opposed to women’s suffrage, but so were the saloon owners. So were people in mining towns who believed that women, once given the vote, would pass temperance laws," Balik said.

Progress on women’s suffrage stagnated for the next 20 years because the state legislature was primarily controlled by Alexander McKenzie’s political machine and most of his politicians were ...

A team of all-female elite skydivers is taking to the skies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The 11 members of the ...

Ripples of Change Monument, Seneca Falls, NY commissioned by the U.S. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission on the undertold contributions to Women's Suffrage.

19 th Amendment Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...

The Unexpected Women Blocking South Carolina’s Near-Total Abortion Ban They call themselves the “Sister Senators” and three of them are Republicans. By Kate Zernike May 7, 2023 Essay ...

Before women got the right to vote in 1920, they sold cookbooks like ‘The Woman Suffrage Cook Book’ to raise money for their cause.

Aoife O'Donovan was commissioned by a symphony to wrote a song cycle about women's suffrage, 'All My Friends,' that became an album and, now, a tour.

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement. By Katharine Q. Seelye The Evie reader can work ...