In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

Women's History Month is meant to celebrate the achievements, resilience, and contributions of women across different ...

Pioneers in their own right, these women from Southwestern Pennsylvania displayed vision and perseverance as they labored to ...

For example, only since the suffragette movement ... Getty Images She finally forced changes in the law for women in America, and people took notice. In 1869 the National Woman Suffrage ...

The women's rights movement reached a national scale after the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, in which leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spoke on the need for women's suffrage.

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

A graphic shows Jane Manning James, Alice Merrill Horne, Elaine Anderson Cannon and Leah D. Widtsoe. BYU professors said ...

Titled “Resistance,” a new exhibition curated by filmmaker Steve McQueen examines 100 years of struggles against the status quo, from women ... Kingdom’s suffrage movement in 1903 to ...

The Bryant Library in Roslyn recently reissued their 2021 short documentary feature “The Two Mrs. Mackays,” which chronicles ...

As editor in chief of Evie, a women’s publication opposed to what she calls “modern” feminism, Mrs. Hugoboom has been accused ...

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) What’s more ... whether it be the civil rights movement or the women’s suffrage movement, “has all been leading up to this moment right when ...

That changed in the 20th century, with the birth of women’s history as an academic discipline, a push to recognize the achievements of women—and a movement to ensure women had equal access to ...