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My wife looked at me with arched eyebrows as I read aloud several passages from the two books. “You didn’t know that?” she ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...