March 15, 2018 Elaine Weiss found the locus of action for her book deep in the library archives. I love this image because it is the stuff writing fantasies are made of: a writer, buried in the depths of newspapers that had been cataloged on microfilm. It was there...
WNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show March 14, 2018 Women’s Hard-Fought Right to Vote Elaine Weiss, journalist and the author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking, 2018), talks about the fault lines exposed by the battle for the 19th...
‘The Woman’s Hour’ wonderfully recalls the furious fight to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Elaine Weiss’s superb book focuses on six key weeks in the suffrage battle. Marjorie Kehe MARCH 14, 2018 —This year, more than 400 women are considered...
Elaine F. Weiss discusses her new book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, about the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919–1920…. Watch the video…
By Elaine Weiss, published March 13, 2018 on lennyletter.com, illustration by Lisa Case. If women were going to be judged by their appearance — which they were then, just as they are now — then the suffragists wanted to shape their own image. Fashion statements can be...