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...
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...
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...
The author of The Woman’s Hour finds a photo of a battle to freeze progress. By Elaine Weiss Published in Lapham’s Quarterly, Roundtable, April 26, 2018 I found this photo in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville while conducting research for 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...
THE WOMAN’S HOUR The Great Fight to Win the Vote Elaine Weiss, Read by Tavia Gilbert, Elaine Weiss [Intro.] • Unabridged • APRIL 2018 Penguin Audio • Trade Ed. Books on Tape • Library Ed. In her introduction, author Elaine Weiss frames a pivotal moment in the...
Originally aired on March 27, 2018 The Woman’s Hour Elaine Weiss recalled the women’s suffrage movement’s efforts to promote the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, which would allow women the right to vote. Watch the video…...
The Curious Iguana Bookstore event will be Tuesday, March 27, at the C. Burr Artz Library Community Room, Frederick, MD – 7 pm 110 East Patrick Street, Frederick, MD 21701
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...
