White, purple, and yellow The women’s movement didn’t rely on visual symbols at first, notes historian Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. That changed in the early 20th century, when suffragists in ...

As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 physicians and support staff sailed to war-torn ...

Each of the state’s 200 legislators is asked to nominate a woman in their district who makes a difference in the quality of ...

The Midwest National Parks spans 3 time zones and 13 states including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michiga ...

During the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., the future vice president of the United States wore suffragette-white as a symbol, evoking the power of women in politics.

The Bahamas government says human rights expert and attorney, Marion Bethel, has been elected commissioner of the ...

Marion Bethel, a Bahamian human rights expert and attorney, was elected commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on ...

The Piankeshaw Chapter of the DAR recently visited the final resting place of Cornelia Cole Fairbanks who served as President General of the National Society of the Daughters ...

Foreword: In 1910, the socialist movement in America was spearheaded by the Socialist Party of America (SPA), founded in 1901 ...

One of the most fundamental rights in a free and open democracy is the right to peaceably assemble and protest. But are ...

Most scholars say that at the nation's founding ending a pregnancy wasn’t illegal—or even controversial. Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United States.

In 2005, Rebecca van Bergen was a graduate student in social work at Washington University when she won $24,000 in a school innovation contest. That seed money sparked the creation ...