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.

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.

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 ...

Here are MacGregor's thoughts on the last four decades of writing women back into history. When we founded the National Women’s History Project over 40 years ago, it was a very different world ...

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

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 ...

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 ...