I dedicate my new book to my mother and three aunts, the generation of my past, and to all the young girls and young women in my life now, the generation of my future. Here are photos and videos of these young ladies seeing their names in print, sent along by their movies. What a […]
Time Magazine: 1920 As Year of the Suffragists
In its current issue, Time Magazine celebrates 1920 as the year of the suffragists. In the story, the magazine talks about Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the mainstream two-million-strong National American Woman Suffrage Association, and Alice Paul, the radical activist who headed the much smaller National Women’s Party. Here is what Time wrote: “Catt opted […]
Women’s History Month During a Centennial Year
As we mark Women’s History Month during this centennial year commemorating the 19th Amendment, I have been thinking about the women whose stories animate my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. People like Abigail Adams, who warned her husband in 1776 to “remember the ladies” in writing […]
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
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 […]