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Woman holding up a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Conservatives Don’t Have a Monopoly on Originalism

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.
by Simon Lazarus via The New Republic on March 29, 2024
Members of the National Woman's Party prepare to lobby their senators and congressmen to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment, ca. 1923.

Equal Rights Amendment Was Introduced 100 Years Ago — and Still Waits

America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.
by Frederic J. Frommer via Retropolis on December 12, 2023
Helen Hamilton Gardener circa 1920.

Intellectual, Suffragist and Pathbreaking Federal Employee: Helen Hamilton Gardener

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.
by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on April 13, 2023
Artistic depiction of Suffragettes demonstrating for women's right to vote. At bottom left, a woman with a cap holds an old fashioned megaphone in her hands. At right, three women (in black and white) can be seen talking with one another. One is holding a piece of paper in her hands.

A “Hamilton” for the Suffrage Movement

Shaina Taub’s new musical follows Alice Paul’s tireless quest to win American women the vote.
by Alexandra Schwartz via The New Yorker on April 7, 2022
Marie Bankhead Owen sitting for portrait picture with title "State of Denial" printed next to her

How a Confederate Daughter Rewrote Alabama History for White Supremacy

Marie Bankhead Owen led campaigns to purge anti-Confederate lessons from Southern classrooms, and all but erased Black history from the Alabama state archives.
by Kyle Whitmire via al.com on February 16, 2022
A collage featuring pictures from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1920s, including people wearing masks and nurses on one side and flappers on the other.

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on May 3, 2021
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.

The 16-Year-Old Chinese Immigrant Who Helped Lead a 1912 US Suffrage March

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.
by Michael Lee via HISTORY on March 19, 2021
flag of the Cherokee Nation

The 17-Year-Old Girl Who Was Once a Leader of The Cherokee Nation

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.
by Caroline Klibanoff, Allyson Schettino via Teen Vogue on November 30, 2020

‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
by George Thomas via The Atlantic on November 2, 2020
A collage featuring early feminists.

Pointing a Way Forward

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Southern Cultures on October 1, 2020
Two adults holding hands with a child in front of a Christmas tree

The Oracle of Our Unease

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 24, 2020

Flu Fallout

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 22, 2020
Republican Warren G. Harding speaking to voters from his front porch in Ohio.

How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020
Mother with a laptop, surrounded by noisy children.
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Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.
by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on August 25, 2020

Fannie Lou Hamer's Dauntless Fight for Black Americans' Right to Vote

The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights
by Keisha N. Blain via Smithsonian on August 20, 2020
A statue of a woman and two children, with the photo taken at twilight with the moon in the background.

Mary McLeod Bethune Was at the Vanguard of More Than 50 Years of Black Progress

Winning the vote for women was a mighty struggle. Securing full liberation for women of color was no less daunting
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian on July 1, 2020

Votes for Colonized Women

How the politics of American imperialism often intersected with calls for women's suffrage.
by Laura Prieto via Process: A Blog for American History on May 28, 2020
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court holding signs for and against abortion rights.
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What Antiabortion Advocates Get Wrong About the Women Who Secured the Right to Vote

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.
by Reva B. Siegel, Stacie Taranto via Made By History on January 22, 2020

National Archives Exhibit Blurs Images Critical of President Trump

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”
by Joe Heim via Washington Post on January 17, 2020
Women voters cast ballots at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, in 1917.

New York’s First-Time Women Voters

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
by Jessica Kirzane, Miriam Karpilove via Jewish Currents on June 4, 2019

How Women Got the Vote Is a Far More Complex Story Than the History Textbooks Reveal

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on April 9, 2019

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian on March 8, 2019

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.
by Richard D. Brown via Medium on September 20, 2018

How Midwestern Suffragists Used Anti-Immigrant Fervor to Help Gain the Vote

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.
by Sara Egge via Zócalo Public Square on September 17, 2018

Women’s Liberation, Beauty Contests, and the 1920s: Swimsuit Edition

The swimsuit that's controversial now for its sexist overtones was once controversial for its suggestions of women’s liberation.
by Laura Prieto via Nursing Clio on June 19, 2018

How Restaurants Helped American Women Get the Vote

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on March 29, 2018
Lucy Branham addresses an audience.

The Raiment of Resistance

If women were going to be judged by their appearance, then the suffragists wanted to shape their own image.
by Elaine Weiss via Lenny Letter on March 13, 2018

How Bicycles Boosted the Women's Rights Movement

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did "more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."
via Vox on June 2, 2017

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Story of Katie Casey and Our National Pastime

The little-known story of one of the best known sing-along songs, and its connection to women's suffrage.
by George Boziwick via Our Game on October 8, 2013

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