Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

From Philadelphia Sculptors, in partnership with Women for Greater Philadelphia, 'TIMELINE' will open with an event from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 18, and ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread ...

A question about 19th-century ceramics can only turn into an hour-long rabbit hole on the sacredness of motherhood as ...

The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Support ...

Some suffragists, including women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, also increasingly emphasized racial, class and ethnic differences. After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised ...

The Finger Lakes Region is often viewed as the grounds where the foundation of the Women's Rights Movement in the 19th century flourished.

The American women's struggle for the right to vote was a long and arduous one spanning several decades before the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920.

In 1920, Congress ratified the 19th Amendment — giving women the right to vote in the United States. Just more than 100 years later, it’s possible that the United States ...

Jenn Colella as Carrie Chapman Catt (center) in Suffs, a new Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement Joan Marcus In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was ...

Paul co-founded the National Woman's Party and was instrumental in organizing the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, which brought national attention to the suffrage movement.