This parade was their chance to showcase their beauty and appeal in what one historian would call a spectacle “as well ...

It’s March 3, 1913, and the nation’s capital is in chaos. Up Pennsylvania Avenue march some 5,000 suffragists, demanding a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisa Tetrault, a historian and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, noted many people misunderstand how that 19th amendment ...

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 ...

Women argued, protested and took to the streets as they fought for the right to vote. They were arrested and jailed. Some were beaten. Others risked their marriages and their standing in the community ...

This year marks 100 years since the passage of the 19th amendment, which sought to guarantee all American women the right to vote. Many Americans believe they know the full story of American suffrage ...

This week, the United States will celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920, and certified as part of the Constitution on August 26, 1920, granted ...

2020 marks 100 years since the culmination of one of the most profound political movements in America, the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment is named ...

The women's suffrage movement was launched at a women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. The campaign to win women the right to vote would drag on for more than 70 years until, in ...