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She Asked President Woodrow Wilson For 22 Suffrage "Favors." She Got 21.
Wilson became a great supporter of the 19th Amendment, but only because he worked alongside a woman who spoke his language.
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Kimberly A. Hamlin
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Study Marry Kill
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August 18, 2021
The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage
A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.
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Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
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July 1, 2019
Women's Suffrage @100
We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.
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Linda Gordon
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Public Books
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September 22, 2017
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History Shows How to Fix the U.S.'s Abysmal Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates
The maternal health intervention from a century ago that worked.
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Michelle Bezark
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Made by History
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December 19, 2021
A Record Number of Women Are Serving in the 117th Congress
Since Jeannette Rankin was elected in 1916, 352 women have served in the House and 46 in the Senate. About two-thirds entered Congress during or after the 1990s.
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Drew DeSilver
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Carrie Blazina
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Pew Research Center
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January 15, 2021
Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)
A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.
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Melissa McCarthy
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The Public Domain Review
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October 27, 2020
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women
It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.
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Martha S. Jones
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Politico Magazine
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August 26, 2020
What Right to Vote? There’s a Lie at the Heart of American Democracy
The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.
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Lisa Tetrault
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New York Daily News
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August 22, 2020
How My Great-Grandmother Lost Her U.S. Citizenship The Year Women Got The Right to Vote
In 1920, my American-born great-grandmother, Ida Brown, married a Russian immigrant in New York City.
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Jayne Orenstein
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Retropolis
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August 13, 2020
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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The New Republic
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August 10, 2020
What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election
The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.
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Meilan Solly
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Smithsonian
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July 30, 2020
Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment
The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.
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Margaret Talbot
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The New Yorker
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July 26, 2020
Suffrage in Spanish
Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.
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Cathleen D. Cahill
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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
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June 15, 2020
Black Women’s 200 Year Fight for the Vote
For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.
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Martha S. Jones
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PBS NewsHour
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June 3, 2020
The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment
A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
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Ellen Carol DuBois
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Lila Thulin
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Smithsonian
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March 18, 2020
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The 19th Amendment Was a Crucial Achievement. But it Wasn’t Enough to Liberate Women.
It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.
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Holly Jackson
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Made by History
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October 17, 2019
The Hidden Story of Two African American Women
An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.
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Martha S. Jones
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Kate Clarke Lemay
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The Conversation
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September 9, 2019
The ‘Undesirable Militants’ Behind the Nineteenth Amendment
A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.
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Adrienne LaFrance
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The Atlantic
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June 4, 2019
Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote
A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
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April 26, 2019
The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage
The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.
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Eleri Harris
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Ellen T. Crenshaw
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The Nib
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March 8, 2019
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