New York Times Opinion by Elaine Weiss March 5, 2018 Jane Walker will take over her brother Johnny’s whiskey label this month — in honor of Women’s History Month, we’re told — a temporary rebranding that’s fueling comic riffs by Stephen Colbert and other cynical...
posted by Cybil on March 1, 2018 Elaine F. Weiss’ upcoming The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote recounts the history of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify...
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...
