Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 — not even 12 months after the battles of Lexington and Concord — she wrote to her husband, John, who was with the Continental Congress.

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At 105, Ruth Bradley McNeely-Wells cast her absentee ballot in Milwaukee's spring Supreme Court election, continuing her ...

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, the BYU Library hosted its first ever sing-along of songs written by Utah women as they fought for their right to vote in the 1800s on March 25 in the ...

The SAVE Act bill seeks to amend how people register to vote. Here's how the new rules could affect American women.

The House of Representatives chamber has been the site of some of history’s greatest strides for the freedom to vote. It’s ...

NPR animator and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in ...

Women’s history is a year-round thang. Molly Gonzales, the Advocacy Manager at the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, NJ., ...

Carrie Chapman Catt Hall was built in 1893 on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. (Iowa State University) I ...

What is woke? It is an adjective of African American vernacular meaning “aware of discrimination,” similar to the general ...

JUST Stop Oil announced last week that it will be “hanging up the hi-vis” at the end of this month and winding up the activist group which ...