Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
Lydia Chapin Taft was the first woman to legally vote in New England. The year was 1756, and the issue of taxation...
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
Henry Blackwell fell in love at first sight. Lucy Stone, the mild- looking but fire-breathing women’s rights advocate, mesmerized the young man....
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows got caught in the crossfire. In June of...
In 1863 with the country locked in Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s party desperately needed political support. To get it, the Republicans...