Events

I’ll be autographing copies of my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, on Saturday, January 4 at the New York Hilton Midtown.

Will be at the book hall in the American Historical Association convention, signing books starting at 2 p.m.

Hope to see you there.

Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, in a curated conversation with Beth Ruyak, host of Insight on CapRadio, an NPR affiliate in Sacramento.

As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how eight generations of women of all races and classes fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.

Cal State U Sacramento has gone all out to make this a spectacular event. There will be a one hour discussion of the book, followed by a reception, and a book signing. So far 300 have registered to attend, so please join this celebration of a landmark in U.S. history. Special thanks to organizer Muffy Francke, for pulling together what promises to be a real happening.

Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at one of the premier political clubs in New York City. The Women’s National Republic Club has been stellar in its support of this fight, its members taken a pilgrimage last summer to Seneca Falls, N.Y., where Elizabeth Cady Stanton first called for women to win the vote in 1848.

As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how eight generations of women of all races and classes fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.

Join us for an evening of provocative thought, with a book signing to follow.

Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at the the iconic Unitarian Church of All Souls on the Upper East Side in New York.

As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how  women of all races and classes, fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.

Join us for an afternoon of provocative thought, with a book signing to follow.

Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at the premier bookstore in Delray Beach.

As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how  women of all races and classes, fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.

About the only mystery in the book, Dr. Neuman quips, is why it took so long.

Join us for an evening of provocative thought — and wine — with a book signing to follow.

Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at one of the premier bookstores in Palm Beach, FL.

As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, she argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the Deep South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how  women of all races and classes, fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.

Join us for an evening of provocative thought, with a book signing to follow.

Am delighted to announce that I will be speaking about my book at American’s University’s Women in Politics Institute, interviewed by Lucy Gettman.

Event is March 23 at 5 p.m. in the University’s Kerwin Hall, Room 301, followed by a book signing.

Event is free but you can register here.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/suffrage-centennial-book-talk-and-yet-they-persisted-tickets-88661692509

As we commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, 2020 serves as a great opportunity to look back on the long history and ponder the costs of social change. Come join us at Barnes & Noble in Boynton Beach to learn more about this epic achievement, ask the author questions and get her to autograph your copy of the book. See you there!

Johanna Neuman is one of the nation’s leading experts on the history of women’s suffrage. An award-winning historian and a scholar in residence at American University, she has written two books and several monographs on the topic. She often lectures about the long campaign by American women to win the vote, from the revolutionary fervor of the American Revolution in the 1770s to the call for justice during the Civil Rights Movement two centuries later. Chronicling one of the broadest coalitions for social change in American history, she brings delights in illuminating personalities – from the white colonialists who wanted the Constitutional Convention to offer them political privileges, to the black activists who fought Jim Crow laws in the South to protect their constitutional rights to vote.

A journalist who covered the White House, State Department and Congress for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, Johanna won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and specialists in writing advance obituaries of political figures in Washington, D.C. After her journalism career, she returned to the academe, earning a PhD in history from American University in 2016.