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...
‘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...
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,...
by Elaine Weiss, published in TIME, March 6, 2018 Women’s voices — their anger, their protest, their pain — have moved to the center of the national conversation in the United States. The extraordinary Women’s Marches kicked off 2017, bringing millions of women into...
NPR Books Review by Jean Zimmerman, March 6, 2018 We tend to forget how near a thing it was, how outlandish an idea it seemed to some at the time, this concept of women gaining access to the ballot box. In one of history’s great thrillers, the battle to ratify...
