Wall Street Journal: Presidential Hush Money, Circa 1920

Wall Street Journal: Presidential Hush Money, Circa 1920

Essays

Warren G. Harding got elected partly by women exercising voting rights for the first time. They didn’t know about the affair that his party paid to cover up – or about his second mistress. by Elaine Weiss Published in The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2018 The...
The Daily Beast: The Radical Roots of Mother’s Day

The Daily Beast: The Radical Roots of Mother’s Day

Essays

Julia Ward Howe saw it as a day celebrating pacifism, and it later became a battleground where suffragists and anti-suffragists waged war over the proper role of mothers. by Elaine Weiss Published in The Daily Beast, May, 12, 2018 Photo illustration by Elizabeth...