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.

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…

Stop! Don’t Shoot Fire Stick

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Oh Right. I Forgot

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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 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…

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