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How Social Change Is Made: Object Lessons From The Long History Of Women’s Suffrage
There is no formula for making social change, no elixir that propels a culture toward progress. But as a historian who specializes in the study of women’s suffrage, and author…
Reviewer Calls New Book On Women’s Suffrage “Highly Entertaining And Gravely Important”
Choice, which provides book reviews to more than 18,000 librarians, faculty members and key decision makers at schools and universities, has just posted its review of my book, Gilded Suffragists:…
Women Banding Together, To Win The Vote Then, To Make Social Change Now
When I first looked at GirlCrew.com, I likened it to Facebook for women — a website that facilitates reunions, eases life transitions and creates online communities. And it is all…
Should 16-Year-Olds Vote? A Suffrage Historian Weighs In
The last time the US lowered federal voting age was in 1971, when it declined from 21 to 18. The chief rationale was that 18-year-olds sent to Vietnam to fight,…
How Women’s Suffrage Activists Lobbied Congress For The Vote: Lessons For Us
The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument in Washington, D.C. was once the headquarters building for the National Woman’s Party. There women — many young, many militant — planned strategy, wrote and…
When Women Went To Jail For The Right To Vote — In America
It is not well known but some American women went to jail for their right to vote. In a prison that had been discarded ten years earlier as “unfit to…
Young Women Leading Revolutions? Ask 20-Something Women’s Suffrage Activist Alice Paul
A meme making its way around the Internet speaks volumes to the marvel that young students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — not yet eligible to vote — are…
Restoring Black Suffragists To Feminist History
A few weeks ago my great-niece came home from school in distress. “The teacher said I was white,” she told her mother. “But we’re not white!” In the eyes of…
When Gilded Suffragists Reached Out To Black Activists
The history of the white women’s suffrage movement in America is a succession of attempts by black activists to join the parade — only to be pushed aside by expediency…