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 […]
Motherhood Moment Blog Features New Book — And Yet They Persisted
Thanks to Bekah Jorgensen, a blogger at the Motherhood Moment, for a wonderful interview about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Check it out here and let me know what you think. You can reach me at johanna.neuman@me.com. And in case you missed it, some of […]
Appearing on Newstalk’s KXYL 102.3 in Texas on Monday at 8:10 AM
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]