Tune in to hear me talk about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, with hosts JR Williams and Cellinda Hawkins. Looking forward to the conversation Monday November 25, from 8:10 a.m. Eastern. We will talk about why it took so long for American women to win […]
And Yet They Persisted: Soon an Audio Book
Very happy to announce that my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, will be recorded as an audio book — just in time for next year’s centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. My publisher, Wiley Blackwell, is rushing the paperback into print for the […]
New Book: And Yet They Persisted
How Social Change is Made: Object Lessons From the Long History of Women’s Suffrage
There is no formula for making social change, no elixir that propels a culture toward progress. But as a historian who specializes in the study of women’s suffrage, and author of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, I believe there were several elements that distinguished the cause. One was a […]
Reviewer Calls New Book on Women’s Suffrage “Highly Entertaining and Gravely Important”
Choice, which provides book reviews to more than 18,000 librarians, faculty members and key decision makers at schools and universities, has just posted its review of my book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote. In its review, Choice Reviews, a division of the American Library Association, said it […]
Women Banding Together, To Win the Vote Then, To Make Social Change Now
When I first looked at GirlCrew.com, I likened it to Facebook for women — a website that facilitates reunions, eases life transitions and creates online communities. And it is all of that. But the harder I explored this new “platform for women to make new friends,” the more I realized that it also promised the […]
Should 16-Year-Olds Vote? A Suffrage Historian Weighs In
The last time the US lowered federal voting age was in 1971, when it declined from 21 to 18. The chief rationale was that 18-year-olds sent to Vietnam to fight, perhaps to die, had earned a chance to affect their country’s politics. In November 2013, Takoma Park, MD became the first in US to grant […]
How Women’s Suffrage Activists Lobbied Congress for the Vote: Lessons For Us
The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument in Washington, D.C. was once the headquarters building for the National Woman’s Party. There women — many young, many militant — planned strategy, wrote and produced the party’s newspaper, The Suffragist, and returned for rest after serving time in jail. On display for visitors these days are many markers of the […]