Johanna Neuman

Historian & Journalist

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JOHANNA NEUMAN, PhD

HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, SPEAKER ON WOMEN'S HISTORY

johanna.neuman@me.com

100 years ago we won the right to vote!

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ABOUT JOHANNA NEUMAN

Johanna Neuman is an award-winning historian and author of two books on the triumphant campaign by women to win the vote. As a journalist, she covered the White House, State Department and Congress for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. Johanna won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and holds a PhD in history from American University.  She currently lives in Florida and has dedicated the rest of her career to writing books about the history of women through archival research, storytelling, and journalist skills. [Read More…]

In writing about people, I delight in discovering aspects of their lives that illuminate their character. When I wrote the obituary of Ronald Reagan, I read that as he was leaving the presidency, a reporter asked Reagan what it had been like to be an actor in the White House, the first. He cocked his head, smiled and said, “There have been times in this office when I’ve wondered how you could do the job if you hadn’t been an actor.” To me, that anecdote told volumes about his values and his perspective on power and its uses.

WRITER • HISTORIAN • JOURNALIST

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Johanna Neuman has been invited to speak across the country is offering speeches on

  • “Why It Took American Women Two Centuries to Win the Vote”
  • “Who Won Women’s Suffrage — Moderates or Militants?”
  • “Celebrity and Fashion as Weapons of Radical Change”
  • “What the Suffrage Campaign Suggests About How Social Change Is Made.”

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To me, the four most powerful words in any language are, “Once upon a time.” Storytelling is inspiring, and at its heart is a focus on people. Stories, whether novels or histories, hold a mirror to our own lives, teaching us about ourselves and about our shared fears, observations and ambitions.
Johanna Neuman is a historian, author and award-winning journalist whose new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote, is already winning rave reviews. [Read More…]

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