The musical Suffs tells the riveting, complicated, devastating story of how women in the United States got the right to vote. With a book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, the musical explores the ...

Each September, we celebrate Constitution Day, honoring the document that defines our government and secures our rights. But constitutions dont defend themselves. They work only when citizens ...

Learn about the real women behind the suffragist movement who helped pass the 19th amendment and inspired the musical "Suffs.

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 ...

Suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular ...

Now the Workhouse Arts Center, the facility does not stand in spite of its past, but because of it. Wilson Korges This article was originally published on March 21, 2018, in Folklife Magazine. Even in ...

The long fight for voting rights for women in America had some delicious twists. Suffragists often raised money for their activities with bake sales and by compiling cookbooks to sell. While it might ...

Asylum seekers held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California have launched a series of hunger strikes to demand personal protective equipment, medical care and provisional ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...