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 →
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the presidential election. The next year a jury of men, who Anthony noted were not her peers, convicted the famous… Read more Thinking of Susan B. Anthony →