The 1600 Sessions: Women’s Suffrage and the White House

The 1600 Sessions: Women’s Suffrage and the White House

The 1600 Sessions Presented by the White House Historical Association Women’s Suffrage and the White House July 23, 2020 | 01:01 | 44 This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the culmination of the suffragists’ fight to secure the right to vote for women....
She Votes! Podcast Elaine Weiss Interview

She Votes! Podcast Elaine Weiss Interview

She Votes! Podcast: Mother Knows Best August 26th, 2020 | 36:52 | S1:E7 EPISODE SUMMARY August 18, 1920. Nashville, Tennessee. Men and women on both sides of the suffrage fight have been battling for weeks over the final state needed to ratify the 19th amendment,...
WBUR’s Radio Boston Interview with Elaine Weiss

WBUR’s Radio Boston Interview with Elaine Weiss

Looking Back On The Fight For Women’s Suffrage A Century Later by Chris Citorik and Walter Wuthmann With a record number of women in Congress, and a record number of women running for president, many are calling this a new era for women in politics. But it...
Fast-growing Global Trend: Pop-up Protests

Fast-growing Global Trend: Pop-up Protests

Interview with Elaine Weiss by Mike Allen. Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. AXIOS, July 01, 2018 This weekend’s massive flash rallies to protest President Trump’s immigration policies – following the global women’s marches and the...
The Great Fight To Win The Vote

The Great Fight To Win The Vote

WAMC Northeast Public Radio: The Roundtable by Joe Donahue, March 08, 2018 This Women’s History Month, as we witness the huge volume of female candidates running in 2018, the hundreds of thousands marching at the Women’s Marches across the country, we focus on the...
How Racism Nearly Derailed Women’s Right to Vote

How Racism Nearly Derailed Women’s Right to Vote

by Isaac Chotiner, published in SLATE, March 7, 2018 In The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Elaine Weiss chronicles the final moments of the ultimately successful battle to grant women the franchise. Thirty-six states had to ratify the 19th Amendment,...
Score One for Women – Publishers Weekly Interview

Score One for Women – Publishers Weekly Interview

Elaine Weiss’s new book, The Woman’s Hour, puts excitement into the suffragettes’ fight to win the vote One of Elaine Weiss’s most remarkable achievements in her new book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking, March 2018), is that she has written...
New York Times Interview

New York Times Interview

New York Today: A Century of Women Voting – “All of these issues we’re dealing with now — voter suppression and voter rights and racial bigotry – they all come up in the fight for suffragists,” Ms. Weiss added. “It’s a lesson for today; it’s not just history.” Read...