Jeanette Rankin, First Woman Elected to US Congress
Jeannette Rankin made history in 1916 as the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. A representative from Montana, she was a champion [...]
A Partial Timeline for Women’s Studies, by Dawn Warren
1850 BC Egyptian texts describe the first known reference to contraceptives. 1750 BC The Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law code, protects a woman's right [...]
From “What Every American Should Know About Women’s History” by Christine Lunardini, Ph.D.
“When Belva Lockwood was widowed for the first time in 1853, she moved with her young daughter to Washington, DC, in hopes of finding suitable [...]
From “Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad,” by Ann Petry
“...Two days later, a slave working beside Harriet in the fields motioned to her. She bent toward him, listening. He said the water boy had [...]
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address before U. S. Senate February 20, 1892
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892 Being one of her last public [...]
Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women
One of the best-known of the mothers of woman suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the 1848 woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, where she [...]
