Susan B. Anthony

Behind a quiet house museum are anti-abortion activists with a mission: to claim America’s most famous historical feminist as their own.

A window into the day-to-day workings of the movement for the enfranchisement of women.

The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

In the first half of the 19th century, upstate New York was a hotbed of movements for reform. How visible is that history today?

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.

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

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

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

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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

Who in the reproductive rights debate can claim Susan B. Anthony?

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

If women were going to be judged by their appearance, then the suffragists wanted to shape their own image.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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.

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.

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.