Before the 19th Amendment extended voting rights to women nationwide, several states already included women at the polls. Jeannette Rankin, born on this date in 1880, campaigned to get women to vote for her in the 1916 c...

A true capitalist can see the value in any political movement if there is enough money to be made from it. In 1911, women in England were working to achieve the right to vote. A large demonstration was planned for June 1...

How a group of 20th-century suffragettes fought the man.Had the police known there was barbed wire hidden in the floral arrangements, things might have gone a little differently. As it stood, in March of 1914, officers i...

Sometime around 1908, suffragists in Cincinnati staged a photo shoot to imagine wha...