New Book: And Yet They Persisted

Cause Explosive Decompression

Goodbye, cruel world. Goodbye, cruel lamp, lined with what would appear to be some sort of cruel muslin and the cute little pom-pom curtain pull cords. Cruel though they may…

Ok, This Has Gotta Stop

And yet you haven’t said what I told you to say! How can any of us trust you? We’ll go deliver this crate like professionals, and then we’ll go home….

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 White Suffragists Campaigned Against Black Voting Rights

It was a shock to me to learn, when I was researching my new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, that the…

Women’s History Month During A Centennial Year

As we mark Women’s History Month during this centennial year commemorating the 19th Amendment, I have been thinking about the women whose stories animate my new book, And Yet They…

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:…

JOHANNA NEUMAN