Smithsonian Magazine3d
The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Jenna Deep
Jenna Deep is an undergraduate at Dickinson College, double majoring in archaeology and history. Her historical interests ...
105 years later, efforts by Lexington women to earn voting rights still resonate
The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...
These women with central Pa. ties contributed to suffrage, temperance, abolitionist movements | Column
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.
Seacoastonline4d
G. Willikers! celebrates story of Lucy Stone, who spoke her mind and changed the world
A quote from women's rights pioneer Lucy Stone in the window of G. Willikers! Books and Toys is attracting attention in ...
National Geographic news25d
How women claimed their place in America’s history books
Although women historians had been excluded from the profession by virtue of their sex in the 19th century ... a historian at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, told the Chicago Tribune ...
The Press Democrat9d
Sonoma County's history of women in sports
Beginning over a century ago, Sonoma County women and girls went from cheering on the sidelines to dominating the field in ...
National Geographic news20d
The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...