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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When Women Went to Jail for the Right to Vote — in America
It is not well known but some American women went to jail for their right to vote. In a prison that had been discarded ten years earlier as “unfit to hold a human being,” they were subjected to insect-infected food, sunless cells and in some cases brutal attack. A few went on hunger strikes and […]