Susan B. Anthony

Bett Freeman's story and the legal precedent her case established are now forever remembered in Sheffield, Massachusetts.

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

Cycling culture offered individual women, as well as couples, greater freedom in daily life.

Of mice and men.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

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

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

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

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

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

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

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

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

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

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

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

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.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.