Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that marks a ...
Suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular ...
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 ...
Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...
Suffragette is a historical movie set in early 20th-century Britain. It follows the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and their struggle for women’s suffrage. The movement was led by British ...
To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the stories of how women won the right to vote in the United States. To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Around the nation and here in Indianapolis on Tuesday, women cast their ballots. "Especially as a woman, I think it's important to vote for women's rights," said Gianna Mohrman, who ...
A team of Welsh seamstresses have made 264 sashes for every woman MP to mark 97 years since women were given the right to vote. The group, based in Newport, call themselves Lucy and the Sashmeisters, ...
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 ...
Re: Keith Gallagher’s March 14 letter, “Poor understanding of history”: Mr. Gallagher claims that the Congresswomen who dressed in white at the State of the Union in solidarity with the women’s ...
Marcia Chatelian: I think it's so important that cultural institutions understand they need to be a gathering place for people to reflect on political ideas, and that the works they present have to be ...