History Lessons
If She Were Here Today, She’d Be President
Written out of the history of suffrage, Jeannette Rankin was a remarkable feminist and congresswoman. The author Lorissa Rinehart finally tells her story.
History
History
The Life and Untimely Death of One of America's First Feminists
There’s no way of knowing what Margaret Fuller might have achieved if she hadn’t died in the summer of 1850.
History Lessons
Henrietta Lacks: A Moral Wrong That May Never Be Righted
Her name may not be a household name, but ‘HeLa cells’ from Henrietta Lacks's cervix changed the world.
History Lessons
Why Can’t We Just Pass the ERA? It’s Complicated.
The Equal Rights Amendment is a simple 24-word piece of legislation. But it’s also a historic movement, more than a century in the making, that began with women’s suffrage and continues to this day.
Rights for Women
How to Make Your Mother Proud
History is rife with examples of women who effected change, then vanished into obscurity. When it comes to the story of how the 19th Amendment became a reality—irony be damned—it’s no different.