History Now Essay The First Generation: America’s Women Voters, 1776–1807 Marcela Micucci Most histories of women gaining the right to vote in the United States begin in July of 1848, when hundreds of activists gathered in Seneca Falls to hold the first women’s rights convention and sign the Declaration of Sentiments. The... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
News The Education of Women: On This Day, 1735 On May 19, 1735, the New-York Weekly Journal republished an article from England’s The Guardian on the reasons to educate women . Most notably, the author (most likely Joseph Addison) states that women, though they have different...
History Now Essay Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights Steven Mintz Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a "stake in society." Leading colonists associated democracy with disorder and mob rule, and believed... Appears in: 1 | Elections Fall 2004
History Now Essay Women and the Home Front: New Civil War Scholarship Catherine Clinton Art, Literature 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In the 1960s the image of Scarlett O’Hara standing before a Technicolor-drenched panorama from Gone With the Wind (1939) was still firmly planted within the imagination of the American public as a symbol of women on the Civil War home... Appears in: 26 | New Interpretations of the Civil War Winter 2010