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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.
by Adrienne LaFrance via The Atlantic on June 4, 2019
Women voters cast ballots at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, in 1917.

New York’s First-Time Women Voters

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
by Jessica Kirzane, Miriam Karpilove via Jewish Currents on June 4, 2019
A man putting a ballot into a ballot box during a 1938 Arkansas ballot referendum.

How to Change Policy Without Politicians

As Arkansas politics becomes more conservative, voters are using the ballot for progressive ends.
by Olivia Paschal via The Atlantic on May 18, 2019
Two hikers sit on a mountaintop and look at the view.

Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle.
by Susan Ware via Literary Hub on May 13, 2019
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.
Collage of old political cartoons related to the question of women's suffrage.

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.
via Massachusetts Historical Society on April 26, 2019

A Very Great Change

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.
by Stephanie McCurry via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 16, 2019

How Women Got the Vote Is a Far More Complex Story Than the History Textbooks Reveal

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian Magazine on April 9, 2019

The Internationalist History of the US Suffrage Movement

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.
by Katherine M. Marino via National Park Service on March 28, 2019

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian Magazine on March 8, 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.
by Eleri Harris, Ellen T. Crenshaw via The Nib on March 8, 2019

The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington

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.
by Michelle Mehrtens via TED on March 4, 2019

Voter Suppression Carries Slavery's Three-Fifths Clause into the Present

The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.
by Imani Perry via The Guardian on January 31, 2019

The Electoral College Conundrum

There’s no consensus on abolishing the Electoral College, which has countered the popular vote in two of the past five presidential elections.
by Parker Richards via The Atlantic on November 23, 2018
Voters casting ballots in 2008.
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The United States Isn’t a Democracy — And Was Never Intended to Be

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.
by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 6, 2018

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018
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You Probably Don't Know This About U.S. Elections

From voting rights to the electoral college, a brief explainer on three widespread misconceptions about voting.
by Alex Keyssar via Harvard Kennedy School on October 30, 2018

What Did the Founders Mean by “Democracy”?

The main issue they were debating was how democratic a representative body should be. And their answer was “not very democratic at all.”
by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on October 30, 2018
Woman gets help filling out voter registration form.
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Voter Fraud Isn’t a Problem in America. Low Turnout Is.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.
by Allan J. Lichtman via Made By History on October 22, 2018

Welcome To Jim Crow 2.0

Georgia GOP candidate Brian Kemp is using a tried-and-tested formula designed to erode and corrode American democracy.
by Carol Anderson via HuffPost on October 19, 2018

How Tea Helped Women Sell Suffrage

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.
by Janelle Peters via The Atlantic on September 30, 2018

How Midwestern Suffragists Used Anti-Immigrant Fervor to Help Gain the Vote

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.
by Sara Egge via Zócalo Public Square on September 17, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018
Manuscript of the Fourteenth Amendment.

We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on July 9, 2018

Citizens: 150 Years of the 14th Amendment

In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.
by Martha S. Jones via Public Books on July 9, 2018

The End of Civil Rights

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 18, 2018
Surveyor and enslaved people working in Barbados.
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‘Whiteness’ Was Created to Keep Black People From Voting

When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.
by Katharine Gerbner via Made By History on April 27, 2018

How Restaurants Helped American Women Get the Vote

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on March 29, 2018

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on March 21, 2018
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society

It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 28, 2018

When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in America

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.
by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via The Atlantic on January 17, 2018
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