Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s, when married women still had no right ... Rebecca Boggs Roberts writes in her book Suffragists in Washington, D.C ...

to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement and to provide a resource for newly-enfranchised women to take their part in public life. The deposit of books and archives in the early ...

it may come as a surprise to some to learn that not all Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania students and faculty were in favor of the suffrage movement. This editorial in the student magazine from ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members of local ... women’s political activism in German and Britain. Her books include "Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work ...

A comprehensive new book, Elaine Weiss’ The Woman’s Hour ... What does conventional wisdom get wrong about the suffrage movement? This was a much more complicated story than we've been ...

She Resisted explores the final decade of the women’s suffrage movement through its most powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington ...

Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was formulating a “new code of laws” during the American Revolution, to “remember the ladies.” He did not. Nearly 150 years later, the National ...

Continuing to be active in the suffrage movement, she was elected president of the Nogales League of Women Voters in 1922 ... several historical nonfiction books about the early people of the ...

The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the suffrage movement. This collection includes personal papers of suffragists and suffragettes, records ...