Library of Congress: Suffragists in Song

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Music, Scholarly Resarch, Web-based

The blog of the Library of Congress has highlighted its vast collection of suffrage sheet music in this blog post of March 25.  It begins: “Our colleague Cait Miller published […] Read More

AUDIO: NPR’s All Things Considered: Sally Roesch Wagner, Editor, New Anthology on Women’s Suffrage

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Non-Fiction, Radio/Audio

Women’s historian Sally Roesch Wagner has edited a new Penguin Classics anthology of classical writing on the topic from a diverse array of suffragists. It’s titled, The Women’s Suffrage Movement, […] Read More

Ellen Carol DuBois in the Washington Post: “What Activists Today Can Learn from the Women’s Suffrage Movement”

Persistence and coalition-building are the keys to overcoming backlash

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Newspapers, Web-based

UCLA Professor Emerita Ellen Carol DuBois contributed this commentary to the Washington Post on International Women’s Day 2019: “What Activists Today Can Learn From the Women’s Suffrage Movement.” She maintains, […] Read More

AJ 2019 Suffrage Issue

NEW RESEARCH AND VIDEO INTERVIEW: Linda Grasso, “Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in the Crisis and the Masses”

Women's Suffrage and the Media, American Journalism Special Issue, Spring 2019

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Journal, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

Linda Grasso (CUNY-York) has taken a close look at the “differently radical” stances of the Crisis and the Masses, two radical periodicals of the early 20th century by examining the […] Read More

Tiffany Lewis
AJ 2019 Suffrage Issue

NEW RESEARCH, VIDEO INTERVIEW: Tiffany Lewis: “Mediating Political Mobility as Stunt Girl Entertainment: The Newspaper Coverage of the Suffragists Hike to Albany”

Women's Suffrage and the Media. Special Issue, American Journalism, Spring 2019

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Journal, Academic Paper, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

Tiffany Lewis (CUNY-Baruch) acknowledges that the welcome avalanche of mainstream press coverage of New York’s suffrage hikers indeed subverted aspects of the suffragists’ purpose. For as the women walked the […] Read More

AJ 2019 Suffrage Issue

NEW RESEARCH, VIDEO, PODCAST INTERVIEWS: Teri Finneman: “Covering a Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: The Press and the 1917 Social Movement Against Woman Suffrage”

Women's Suffrage and the Media. Special Issue, American Journalism, Spring 2019

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Journal, Radio/Audio, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

No new research on suffrage and the media would be complete without attention to the anti-suffragists, which Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) provides with her work on local press coverage […] Read More