The South Carolina Aristocrat Who Became a Feminist Abolitionist
After moving to Philadelphia and joining the Quakers, Angelina Grimké rededicated her life to fighting for racial equality
New York Museum Sorts Through Its Collections to Highlight 15 “Rebel Women” of the 1800s
Museum of the City of New York’s latest exhibition puts the spotlight on these 19th-century women who defied Victorian ideals
The Historical Struggle to Rid Socialism of Sexism
When it was founded, the Socialist Party of America proclaimed itself as the champion of women’s rights. The reality was much more complicated
Amelia Bloomer Didn’t Mean to Start a Fashion Revolution, But Her Name Became Synonymous With Trousers
In the 1850s, women’s rights activists briefly adopted a new style in an effort to liberate themselves from heavy dresses
The Defiant Ones
As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago
An Elementary Lesson in Women’s Suffrage: “Timeless” Season 2, Episode 7, Recapped
The Time Team, aided by the real-life ‘Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,’ travels to 1919 this week to save the 19th amendment
Watch: The First Trailer for ‘Mary Shelley’ Explores the Many Inspirations for ‘Frankenstein’
The biopic will follow Mary Wollstonecraft’s scandalous teenage romance with the older Percy Bysshe Shelley and the events that shaped her most famous book
‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ the Revolutionary Feminist Health Book, Will No Longer Print New Editions
In the 1970s, the book promoted nonjudgemental discussions about women’s sexual and reproductive health
How Should We Archive the Soundtrack to 1970s Feminism?
It’s time to talk about the lasting legacy of Olivia Records, a leading voice of the women’s music movement, whose history is ready to come out of storage
The Prolific Illustrator Behind Kewpies Used Her Cartoons for Women’s Rights
Rose O’Neill started a fad and became a leader of a movement
How the 1918 Flu Pandemic Helped Advance Women’s Rights
While the virus disproportionately affected young men, women stepped into public roles that hadn’t previously been open to them
During World War I, Many Women Served and Some Got Equal Pay
Remembering the aspirations, struggles and accomplishments of women who served a century ago
Women Who Shaped History
Collecting the stories of women who forever changed the course of the American story
Why We Need to Start Building Monuments to Groundbreaking Women
The brilliant female codebreakers of WWII were forgotten to history, but would that have happened had they been recognized with the same fervor as men?
This Museum Tour Is the Perfect Guide to Celebrating Women’s History in Style
From the National Portrait Gallery to the Air and Space Museum, here’s where to find the stories of wondrous women come March
How Tennessee Became the Final Battleground in the Fight for Suffrage
One hundred years later, the campaign for the women’s vote has many potent similarities to the politics of today
Photographs Documenting the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage Are Reimagined in Full Color
Colorizer Tom Marshall’s deft touch brings new life to 100-year-old photographs
Stories of Forgotten Suffragettes Come Alive in New Exhibition
The Museum of London’s “Votes for Women” show marks 100 years since women were first granted the right to vote in Britain
See the Portrait Slashed by a Butcher’s Cleaver During Height of Women’s Suffrage Movement
In an act of protest, the London National Portrait Gallery work was damaged in 1914. It returns to mark 100 years of the Representation of the People Act
The YMCA First Opened Gyms to Train Stronger Christians
Physical fitness was a secondary goal for the movement
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