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Gotham Center for New York City History: When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights by Brooke Kroeger

Brooke Kroeger. "When the Media Elite Threw Their Fedoras into the Ring for Women’s Rights." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History. November 16, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Web-based

Brooke Kroeger, author of the book The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, penned this excerpt on the Gotham Center’s blog on the media elite who backed suffrage. Kroeger explains […] Read More

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Gotham Center for New York City History: When the Suffrage Movement Got Its Makeover On by Brooke Kroeger

Brooke Kroeger. "When the Suffrage Movement Got Its Makeover On." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City. November 21, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Web-based

Writing in Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City, author Brooke Kroeger explores the journalist Nellie Bly’s exhortations to suffragists that they get their fashion in order. Kroeger goes […] Read More

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Gotham Center for New York City History: Two Jewish Society Sisters Go At It Over the Vote by Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Alice Sparberg Alexiou. "Two Jewish Society Sisters Go At It Over the Vote." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History. November 23, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Web-based

Not all women supported suffrage. In fact, as historian Alice Sparberg Alexiou writes in this piece for Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York History, there was an organized movement […] Read More

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Gotham Center for New York City History: Mrs. Frank Leslie’s Million Dollar Gift to Women’s Suffrage by Joan Marie Johnson

Joan Marie Johnson. "New Yorker Mrs. Frank Leslie's Million Dollar Gift to Women's Suffrage." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City. November 14, 2017.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Non-Fiction, Web-based

In this Gotham Center-published excerpt, Joan Marie Johnson prints a portion of her book on the monied women who funded suffrage activism.  The excerpt looks at Mrs. Frank Leslie, who was […] Read More

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Interview: Johanna Neuman on the “Gilded Suffragists”

Johanna Neuman, "Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote," NYU Press, September 2017.

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

Johanna Neuman‘s new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, tells the fascinating story of how the elite women of New York City took up […] Read More

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How Suffragists Reacted to the Titanic Disaster

James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. Print Culture in a Diverse America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. (pp. 203-222).

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter

The book Print Culture in a Diverse America is a collection of essays on “books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups.” In chapter nine, Steven Biel writes […] Read More