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 […]
Public Radio Cincinnati: And Yet They Persisted
Michael Monks, host of WVXU’s “Cincinnati Edition,” interviewed me about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. In the interview, we talked about why it took two centuries of agitation before the political establishment made room for female voters, and the role of the states, and even […]
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 […]
New Book: And Yet They Persisted
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 […]
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 […]
Young Women Leading Revolutions? Ask 20-Something Women’s Suffrage Activist Alice Paul
A meme making its way around the Internet speaks volumes to the marvel that young students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — not yet eligible to vote — are leading a revolution in the politics of guns. Note this list contains no women — not even Betsy Ross, who at 24, as a trained […]
Restoring Black Suffragists to Feminist History
A few weeks ago my great-niece came home from school in distress. “The teacher said I was white,” she told her mother. “But we’re not white!” In the eyes of a six-year-old, people are the color she will need to find in her crayon box to draw them — peach or beige or cocoa […]