In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

Editor’s note: Throughout 2025, the Herald-Leader will be spotlighting key moments and individuals in Lexington’s vibrant 250-year history. Today, we look at the role women in Lexington played in the ...

One hundred years ago this month, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote in the single largest voting rights expansion in our nation’s history.

Shaina Taub created the musical “Suffs” to share an important chapter of American history that she was never taught in school and had to find out about for herself. The show, for which she wrote the ...

Just over a century ago, in August of 1920, American women won the constitutional right to vote, thanks to the passing and ratification of the 19th Amendment. What many don’t realize, however, is that ...

The South is often dismissed as a place that's slow to change, Wanda Sobieski acknowledges. But what those who discount the region might not know is that Tennessee played a critical role in the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -Long before women secured the right to vote, progress depended on relationships, persistence, and collective action. That history is at the center of a new two-part Women’s ...

The Painesville Suffrage Trolley Tour is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 26. Downtown Painesville Organization Executive Director Renee Fitzgerald-Palacio said it will start with light ...

Broadway San Diego is launching its 48th season with "Suffs," a musical that provides audiences with an American history lesson about the women's suffrage movement. The cast recently visited the Women ...