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 […]
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 […]
And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote Published Today
Publication date is today for my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first called for women to have the vote at the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention. And they end in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th […]
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 […]
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 […]