Decades before women won the right to vote, suffragists filled city streets and courthouses across America to demand a say in ...

The government rolled out a longer, harder exam this month for aspiring Americans. More than 350,000 Washington Post readers ...

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 ...

In its San Francisco premiere, the Tony-winning musical about the suffrage movement hits all too close to home.

Step into the 19th century as a Gather Place Museum reenactor brings Lucretia Mott—Quaker minister, abolitionist, and women’s ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

On Oct. 23, 1915, an estimated 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote throughout the United States ...

A guide to collection materials on women in medicine and their involvement in the suffrage movement and other forms of women's activism. "Responsibility rests upon women at the present time as it ...

When suffragist Jeannette Rankin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1916, she made a prescient prediction: “I may be the first woman member of Congress. But I won’t be the ...

Parents used to have "The Talk" with their kids—but there are many "big talks." Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That ...

East Tennessee played an important part in ensuring women had the right to vote. A new museum will celebrate the region's ...

We Americans should not be too proud to admit we owe the Brits for a few important things - Harry Potter, earl gray tea, a ...