Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a ...
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 largest ...
Rochester's growth, abolitionist networks and Quaker activism helped make the region a key center of the women's rights ...
This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter was published Nov. 7, 2025, at KnoxNews.com. It garnered a number of responses, which can be read below this one. Women's suffrage has been an unmitigated disaster ...
Introduction / Linda Steiner -- Historiography : women's suffrage and the media / Linda J. Lumsden -- Nineteenth-century suffrage journals : inventing and defending new women / Linda Steiner -- The ...
The sacred right to the elective franchise, 1848-1861 -- Now let us try universal suffrage, 1861-1869 -- Are women persons? : 1869-1875 -- The great primitive right from which all freedom originates, ...
From Congress to the Olympics, women have made their mark on history Smithsonian Institution Covered in slogans advocating for woman suffrage, suffragists brought this wagon to rallies for publicity ...
DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado, women fought for and won that right nearly three decades earlier. Still, the push to secure ...
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