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.
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…
I dedicate my new book to my mother and three aunts, the generation of my past, and to all the young girls and young women in my life now, the…
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. You mean it controls your actions? I find your lack of faith disturbing. The…
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,…
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…
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…