women's suffrage

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.

It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.

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.

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.

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

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

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

If women were going to be judged by their appearance, then the suffragists wanted to shape their own image.

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did "more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

Behind a quiet house museum are anti-abortion activists with a mission: to claim America’s most famous historical feminist as their own.

A window into the day-to-day workings of the movement for the enfranchisement of women.

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.