After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Go behind the scenes with curator Rachel Seidman as she interviews women for We Do Declare: Women’s Voices on Independence, ...

handcuffing themselves to railings going on hunger strikes Many historians still argue whether or not the militant campaigns helped to further the women’s suffrage movement or whether it harmed it.

Boston College Law Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder’s new book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution, implodes the assumption that America’s ...