Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in...
Suffrage
This was the generation of suffragists who challenged society’s expectations of what it meant to be a...
The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep....
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
After years of struggle, on Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the final state needed to ratify the...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister...
It was the single largest extension of voting rights in our nation’s history. The woman suffrage movement...