Women Have Waited Long Enough
One hundred years ago the people of Montana elected the first woman to serve in the US House of Representatives. When they elected Jeannette Rankin in 1916 most women in… Read more Women Have Waited Long Enough →
One hundred years ago the people of Montana elected the first woman to serve in the US House of Representatives. When they elected Jeannette Rankin in 1916 most women in… Read more Women Have Waited Long Enough →
The National Woman’s Party (originally the Congressional Union) arrived on the suffrage scene in 1916 as NAWSA’s hip younger sister. Its founders, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, pushed NAWSA’s boundaries… Read more We Want the Vote Now, Damn It! →
As a women’s historian, what I am about to say might get me kicked out of the profession: NAWSA is the most important women’s suffrage association in American history, but… Read more The Women Who Brought You the Vote →