C-SPAN AMERICAN HISTORY Q&A August 11, 2020 | 01:00 Elaine WeissJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, The Woman’s Hour, about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that guaranteed women...
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....
”History with Howard Rubenstein” PBS/New York Historical Society Series The Elaine Weiss interview will appear in print form in Rubenstein’s forthcoming book, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream in Fall 2021. * * * About The Book American icons and...
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,...
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...
Life as a Long Haul Trucker; then, Free Medical Care; Plus, Author Elaine Weiss In this epsidoe of American Voices: Life as a long haul trucker; then, a clinic of mostly Muslim doctors offers free medical care; and author Elaine Weiss on her favorite place in America....
Quartz at Work: Hen Pecked by Leah Fessler, July 3, 2018 To understand today’s anxieties about women’s progress in the workplace and the dismantling of traditional gender roles, we’d be smart to rewind the clocks to August 1920, the climax of American women’s...
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...
New York Post article by Mary Kaye Linge Even Annie Nathan Meyer, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ida Tarbell were opposed to women’s suffrage. They were some of the most accomplished American women of the early 20th century: a college founder, a journalism pioneer, a...
WYPR interview by TOM HALL & ROB SIVAK • MAR 20, 2018 It’s coming up on 100 years since the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified by legislatures in the requisite three-fourths of US states. The suffragist movement had...
Parade Magazine interview by Sam Coley, March 19, 2018 It’s been almost 100 years since women won the right to vote, and journalist Elaine Weiss says it’s something this generation of women has taken for granted. “Certainly the culture that is being protested needs to...
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...
NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Elaine Weiss about her new book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, which looks at a decisive moment in the women’s suffrage movement. Heard on All Things Considered – March 11, 2018, 5:46 PM ET Read...
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...
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,...
How Tennessee Became the Final Battleground in the Fight for Suffrage – One hundred years later, the campaign for the women’s vote has many potent similarities to the politics of today. Read a full version of the interview (with great photos) online…...
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 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...
