BOOK: “Why They Marched” By Susan Ware

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2019

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

From Harvard University Press comes Susan Ware‘s new book, Why They Marched, which trains its focus “beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement” to “give voice to the thousands […] Read More

OPINION: Washington Post, By Susan Ware: It’s Time to Return Black Women to the Center of the History of Women’s Suffrage

Erased by white suffragists, black women's work was vital to the fight for women's rights.

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

  More on this site regarding Susan Ware: See the post on her new book, from Harvard University Press Why They Marched and an interview with her by Alex Kane as she […] Read More

NEW RESEARCH: “Special Issue: Women’s Suffrage and the Media”

AMERICAN JOURNALISM: A journal of media history, Vol. 36, Iss. 1, Winter 2019 (Open Access April 15, 2019-July 15, 2019)

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Journal

“Suffrage and the Media” is the 2019 Special Issue of American Journalism, devoted to new research about the suffrage movement and its relationship to media, timed to coincide with the […] Read More

VIDEO/EXHIBITION: National Archives “Rightfully Hers” Exhibit

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Exhibition, Government Document

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGiHOqBU7os&feature=push-sd&attr_tag=9FWmeIuJcMkRsrQe%3A6 The video above explains the National Archives suffrage exhibition, “Rightfully Hers,” which opened May 10, 2019 in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery, a collection of photographs and documents from […] 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