Nineteenth Amendment — Bunk History

Picketers from National Women's Party

She Asked President Woodrow Wilson For 22 Suffrage "Favors." She Got 21.

Wilson became a great supporter of the 19th Amendment, but only because he worked alongside a woman who spoke his language.

by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Study Marry Kill on August 18, 2021

The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019

Women's Suffrage @100

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

by Linda Gordon via Public Books on September 22, 2017

A 1923 General Electric advertisement of a women standing over a light switch.

Using Women’s Suffrage to Sell Soup and Cereal

In the 1920s, advertisers tried to convince women to exercise their political power not only at the ballot box but also in the store.

by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via The Saturday Evening Post on October 29, 2024

Vice President Harris speaks during a Maternal Health Day of Action event in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7.

History Shows How to Fix the U.S.'s Abysmal Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates

The maternal health intervention from a century ago that worked.

by Michelle Bezark via Made By History on December 19, 2021

A Record Number of Women Are Serving in the 117th Congress

Since Jeannette Rankin was elected in 1916, 352 women have served in the House and 46 in the Senate. About two-thirds entered Congress during or after the 1990s.

by Drew DeSilver, Carrie Blazina via Pew Research Center on January 15, 2021

Book entitled: This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote, 1917

Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

by Melissa McCarthy via The Public Domain Review on October 27, 2020

What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.

by Martha S. Jones via Politico Magazine on August 26, 2020

What Right to Vote? There’s a Lie at the Heart of American Democracy

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.

by Lisa Tetrault via New York Daily News on August 22, 2020

The author's great-grandparents, Ida Brown and Nathan “Jack” Dashow, in their 1920 wedding photo.

How My Great-Grandmother Lost Her U.S. Citizenship The Year Women Got The Right to Vote

In 1920, my American-born great-grandmother, Ida Brown, married a Russian immigrant in New York City.

by Jayne Orenstein via Retropolis on August 13, 2020

The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.

by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on August 10, 2020

Women around a table of papers and forms, with a League of Women Voters banner on the wall.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 30, 2020

Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 26, 2020

Black and white photo portrait of a woman wearing un-rimmed glasses and a short brimmed hat with a satin bow on it.

Suffrage in Spanish

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

by Cathleen D. Cahill via Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission on June 15, 2020

Black Women’s 200 Year Fight for the Vote

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

by Martha S. Jones via PBS NewsHour on June 3, 2020

Program for the National American Woman Suffrage Association procession in Washington, DC, 1913, featuring a woman on a horse heralding votes for women and leading marchers toward the capitol.

The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.

by Ellen Carol DuBois, Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on March 18, 2020

The 19th Amendment Was a Crucial Achievement. But it Wasn’t Enough to Liberate Women.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.

by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 17, 2019

The Hidden Story of Two African American Women

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

by Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay via The Conversation on September 9, 2019

The ‘Undesirable Militants’ Behind the Nineteenth Amendment

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on June 4, 2019

Collage of old political cartoons related to the question of women's suffrage.

Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

via Massachusetts Historical Society on April 26, 2019

The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage

The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.

by Eleri Harris, Ellen T. Crenshaw via The Nib on March 8, 2019

The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.

by Michelle Mehrtens via TED on March 4, 2019

The Culture War That Was Fought in the Sky

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.

by Keith O'Brien via Politico Magazine on September 23, 2018

Demonstrators march with pro-ERA and LGBT signs.

Why The Equal Rights Amendment Might Be On The Verge Of A Comeback

The ERA has been dead for 36 years, but now women may have the tools to overcome opposition.

by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on June 18, 2018

Women's liberation movement demonstrating in Washington D.C.

The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

by Constance Grady via Vox on March 20, 2018

How the Kim Kardashians of Yesteryear Helped Women Get the Vote

Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.

by Johanna Neuman, Helaine Olen via The Atlantic on December 12, 2017

Cartoon portraits of women who were mayors in 1922.

In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of 'Girl Mayors' Became the Face of Feminism

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.

by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on July 6, 2016

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

Book cover of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920."

Expanding the Boundaries of Reconstruction: Abolitionist Democracy from 1865-1919

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

by Erik J. Chaput, Russell J. DeSimone via Commonplace on July 16, 2024

Cover of "Suffrage Song" on left, featuring three suffragists. On right, cartoonist Caitlin Cass.

This Cartoonist Wants to Tell the Complicated History of Women’s Voting Rights

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

by Barbara Rodriguez via The 19th on June 17, 2024

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