Prequel: Backstory To How American Women Won The Vote

The Women’s Centennial Commission just posted a blog piece I wrote for them, about the backstory to how women won the right to vote.

Check it out here.

No, I’m Santa Claus

Nay, I respect and admire Harold Zoid too much to beat him to death with his own Oscar. Oh right. I forgot about the battle. I had more, but you…

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…

Black Suffragists Who Persevered Against White Racism

As the nation’s capital readied for Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in March of 1913, activist Alice Paul made plans for a large suffrage parade of floats, marchers and theatrical representations….

Appearing On Newstalk’s KXYL 102.3 In Texas On Monday At 8:10 AM

Tune in to hear me talk about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, with hosts JR Williams and Cellinda Hawkins. Looking…

Does Anybody Else Feel Jealous?

You can crush me but you can’t crush my spirit! Oh Leela! You’re the only person I could turn to; you’re the only person who ever loved me. Fatal. Now,…

Breakfast Club

And then the battle’s not so bad? Yeah, lots of people did. Oh, I don’t have time for this. I have to go and buy a single piece of fruit…

JOHANNA NEUMAN