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 ...

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

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

This editorial originally ran in fellow CNHI paper t. From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, from women’s suffrage marches to anti-war demonstrations, many of this country’s greatest ...

In the United States, ... Other colors incorporated into the women’s suffrage movement were yellow gold, purple and green. Each color, like white, symbolized a particular quality.

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

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 ...

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.

Conservative lawmakers say professors are indoctrinating students with liberal ideas. In a series of lawsuits, professors ...

“A Room of Her Own: Women Artists-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945” Where: The Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Mass. When: The exhibition runs June 14 through Sept. 14 ...

Like many conservative Christians today, however, the Social Gospellers believed that the United States was uniquely chosen and blessed ... Many Social Gospel leaders embraced women’s suffrage because ...