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Appalachian Women Fought for Workers Long Before They Fought for Jobs

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.
by Heather Duncan via Scalawag on March 25, 2019

Manly Firmness: It’s Not Just for the 18th Century (Unfortunately)

The history of presidential campaigns shows the extent to which the language of politics remains gendered.
by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on February 28, 2019
A political cartoon of Carrie Nation in a destroyed bar

Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition?

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on January 13, 2019

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

The Culture War That Was Fought in the Sky

In 1928, women wanted more than just the vote. They wanted to do everything a man could do. Even fly the Atlantic.
by Keith O'Brien via Politico Magazine on September 23, 2018

“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.
by Janet Golden via Nursing Clio on April 23, 2018

What Thomas Jefferson’s Daughters Can Teach Us About the False Promises of Patriarchy

Women have always come to the aid of men in power, but the costs of such actions have not always been immediately apparent.
by Catherine Kerrison via Medium on April 20, 2018

The Big Picture: Black Women Activists and the FBI

For more than a century, the American government has surveilled and harassed activists from marginalized communities.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Public Books on November 21, 2017
Women with a sign supporting passage of the ERA.

Who Killed the ERA?

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."
by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2017

The Long History of Black Women's Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Black Perspectives on October 4, 2017
Lithograph of ladies' fashions from Godey's Lady's Book magazine.
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The Women’s Magazine That Tried to Stop the Civil War

Godey’s Lady’s Book, one of the most influential American publications of the nineteenth century, tried to halt the Civil War.
by Joseph Michael Sommers, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on June 11, 2017

Why Do They Hate Her?

Hillary Clinton is the most maligned presidential loser in history. What’s going on?
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 3, 2017
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The U.S. Representative Who Tried to Outlaw War

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.
by Erin Blakemore, Harriet Hyman Alonso via JSTOR Daily on April 2, 2017

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872

In the 1872 election, Victoria Woodhull ran for president of the United States – the first woman in American history to do so.
by Joe Richman, Samara Freemark via Radio Diaries on October 13, 2008
George Washington and his mother, Mary Ball Washington, attending a ball celebrating the surrender at Yorktown in 1781

The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Virtuous to Greedy to Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president on her own after her husband’s death.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham, Kate Haulman via Smithsonian Magazine on September 11, 2025
William Merritt Chase with Parsons School of Design students.
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William Merritt Chase, the Accidental Ally

Painter William Merritt Chase opened an art school for a new generation of women, teaching them how to draw as well as how to advocate for themselves.
by Anne Halsey via JSTOR Daily on August 6, 2025
Images of historical figures including Bejamin Franklin and Albert Einstein are overlaid on a green and white background.

Who’ll Be in Trump’s Hero Garden? There Are a Few Surprises.

The list of nearly 250 includes the famous, the obscure and, in some cases, the intentionally controversial.
by Bonnie Berkowitz, Hannah Dormido, Kati Perry via Washington Post on July 15, 2025

My Freedom, My Choice

A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.
by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on June 5, 2025
Women adjusting their makeup and hair in a women's restroom in the 1940s.
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In the Ladies’ Loo

Gender-segregated bathrooms tell a story about who is and who is not welcome in public life.
by Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza via JSTOR Daily on January 22, 2025
Frances Perkins

How the First ‘Madam Secretary’ Fought to Save Jewish Refugees Fleeing From Nazi Germany

Frances Perkins’ challenged the United States’ restrictive immigration policies as FDR’s Secretary of Labor.
by Sara Georgini, Rebecca Brenner Graham via Smithsonian on January 21, 2025
A person in Native American regalia looks on at the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Mohawk flags.

How Native Americans Guarded Their Societies Against Tyranny

Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to balancing power.
by Kathleen DuVal via The Conversation on November 5, 2024
A 1923 General Electric advertisement of a women standing over a light switch.

Using Women’s Suffrage to Sell Soup and Cereal

In the 1920s, advertisers tried to convince women to exercise their political power not only at the ballot box but also in the store.
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox via The Saturday Evening Post on October 29, 2024
A drawing of an angry, long-haired cat holding a sign that reads "Vote for Shes."
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A Purrrrfect Political Storm

Crazy cat ladies have come to dominate this election season. It’s hardly the first time.
by Natalie Kinkade via JSTOR Daily on September 25, 2024
Photo collage showing an anti-abortion rally, a same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court, among other things.

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
by Jenn Hatfield via Pew Research Center on September 13, 2024
Left: Anthony Comstock. Right: Victoria Claflin Woodhull.
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The Comstock Act's Threat to Abortion Rights If Harris Loses

Anthony Comstock, Victoria Woodhull, and what a battle from the 1870s means for 2024 and reproductive rights.
by Rebecca DeWolf via Made By History on September 12, 2024
A crowd of Feminist protestors marching in New York.

A New Look at the Feminist Earthquake

How women's liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.
by Sara Bhatia via Washington Monthly on August 25, 2024
Percy Sutton, Flo Kennedy, and another Black reproduction activist.

How Black Leaders Formed the Reproductive Justice Movement

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.
by Felicia Kornbluh via Ms. Magazine on February 6, 2024
An overhead view of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

An Oral History of the March on Washington, 60 Years After MLK’s Dream

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.
by Clarence Williams via Retropolis on August 25, 2023
A photograph of Josephine Herbst overlaid on a newspaper article she wrote titled "The Soviet in Cuba."

How Josephine Herbst, 'Leading Lady' of the Left, Chronicled the Rise of Fascism

During the interwar years, the American journalist reported on political unrest in Cuba, Germany and Spain.
by Sarah Watling via Smithsonian on May 8, 2023
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