Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Margaret Fuller was a polymathic intellect and writer, simultaneously ahead of her time and deeply enmeshed in the social and political fabric of her era.

The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

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

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.

Before it was embraced by men, the union suit, or 'emancipation suit,' was worn by women pushing for dress reform.

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.

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

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.

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

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

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

It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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.

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

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.