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...