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...
