This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...

The Suffragettes risked imprisonment and were dubbed “wild” in their campaign for women’s rights to vote, but a century on their stories are being brought out of the shadows. A hundred years to the ...

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In August, the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, turned a century year old. When it was ratified, it proclaimed “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ...

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Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians). This, it turns out, is an old stereotype.

One hundred years ago Tuesday, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote across the United States. In California, that ...

Imagine her, Alva Murray Smith, in 1870: 17, pug-nosed, square-faced, a wry downward crimp at one corner of her mouth as though she were sucking on a painful tooth, her brows dark, her eyes shadowed ...

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