Nineteenth Amendment

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.

The ERA has been dead for 36 years, but now women may have the tools to overcome opposition.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.

Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.

America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

Shaina Taub’s new musical follows Alice Paul’s tireless quest to win American women the vote.

Marie Bankhead Owen led campaigns to purge anti-Confederate lessons from Southern classrooms, and all but erased Black history from the Alabama state archives.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.

Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward tried to broker peace with white settlers.

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?