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SUFFRAGE COVERS AND AN EDITORIAL: Leslie’s Magazine, 7 August and 11 September 1920

Cover art and editorial As the 19th Amendment was being ratified

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Illustration, Magazines

These are the covers of Leslie’s Magazine, an illustrationand photo–rich recursor of Life magazine as Congress was ratifying the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Read also the editorial of […] Read More

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BOOK, ESSAYS, VIDEO: FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch and Brooke Kroeger, University of Illinois Press, 2020

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Essay, Interview, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

  Front Pages, Front Lines Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage (Read about the book on the Illinois Press site: here. Watch any of the short videos with insights […] Read More

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BOOK: SUFFRAGE: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote

By Ellen Carol DuBois, Simon & Schuster, 2020

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book Reviews, Book-Non-Fiction

From the publisher: “Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women […] Read More

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VIDEO: JANE MARCELLUS ON DISCOURSES ON MASCULINITY IN THE NASHVILLE PRESS

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Newspapers, Video, Web-based

In Chapter 8 of Front Pages Front Lines Prof. Marcellus of Middle Tennessee State, offers a close reading of a crucial state in 1920, when the entire country was watching […] Read More

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VIDEO: SHERILYN COX BENNION ON THE WOMEN’S EXPONENT OF UTAH

From her chapter in FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Interview, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

  In Chapter 3 of Front Pages Front Lines, Bennion shows how the prosuffrage arguments of the Women’s Exponent, published for Mormon women, were reformulated in response to regional political shifts, […] Read More

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VIDEO: LINDA STEINER ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY SUFFRAGE JOURNALS: INVENTING AND DEFENDING NEW WOMEN

From her chapter in FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Interview, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

    In Chapter 2 of Front Pages Front Lines, Prof. Steiner argues that the suffrage and women’s rights papers of the nineteenth century created and experimented with very different […] Read More