women's suffrage

The women who opposed their own enfranchisement in the Victorian era have little in common with the “Repeal the 19th” fringe of today.

The story of Mabel Ping‑Hua Lee.

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

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle.

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.

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

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.

Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?

Learn more about the story of Matilda Gage, whose writings inspired the witches in "The Wizard of Oz."