Decades before women won the right to vote, suffragists filled city streets and courthouses across America to demand a say in ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

In its San Francisco premiere, the Tony-winning musical about the suffrage movement hits all too close to home.

On Oct. 23, 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote throughout the United States ...

The government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. More than 350,000 Washington Post readers ...

Step into the 19th century as a Gather Place Museum reenactor brings Lucretia Mott—Quaker minister, abolitionist, and women’s ...

We Americans should not be too proud to admit we owe the Brits for a few important things - Harry Potter, earl gray tea, a ...

When suffragist Jeannette Rankin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1916, she made a prescient prediction: “I may be the first woman member of Congress. But I won’t be the ...

A guide to collection materials on women in medicine and their involvement in the suffrage movement and other forms of women's activism. "Responsibility rests upon women at the present time as it ...

East Tennessee played an important part in ensuring women had the right to vote. A new museum will celebrate the region's ...

Countless women fought for over 70 years for the women’s right to vote and August 18, 2020 will be the centennial of the 19th amendment. Over the past few years there has been an increased focus on ...

Inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, hundreds of mostly young, immigrant women rushed from door to door, only to find they had been locked by their bosses, part of a protocol to keep the women ...