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  1. Women March for the Vote

    By Elisabeth Griffith, Spring 2024, Volume 69, Issue 2

    The grand parade of suffragettes in 1913 was a turning point in women's struggle for the right to vote, despite the abuse by thousands of men who blocked their route. More >>>

  2. DC residents vote for the first time

    By Lee Sutton

    DC residents vote for the first time Teaser Resident of Washington D.C. vote for the first time in a presidential election, three years after … More >>>

  3. The Black Vote: A New Era

    By Steven F. Lawson, October/November 1984, Volume 35, Issue 6

    Twenty years ago blacks were virtually disenfranchised throughout the South. Now their votes may elect our next President. More >>>

  4. They Persisted for Suffrage

    By Ellen DuBois, Winter 2022, Volume 67, Issue 1

    The long, embattled history of women’s suffrage that began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention continues to this day. More >>>

  5. Ida B. Wells Marches for Justice

    By Susan Ware, September 2020, Volume 65, Issue 5

    The ex-slave and investigative journalist spent a lifetime fighting against lynching and segregation — but also for voting rights for African-American women.  More >>>

  6. Reconstruction

    By admin

    Artifacts Carte-de-Visite of Thaddeus Stephens, Radical Republican Pamplin Historical Park Lincoln Cane Given to Frederick Douglass Washington, DC The First Vote More >>>

  7. Susan B. Anthony Cast Her Ballot For Ulysses S. Grant

    By Godfrey D. Lehman, December 1985, Volume 37, Issue 1

    For this crime, she was arrested, held, indicted, and put on trial. Judge Hunt presided. More >>>

  8. The Electoral College: Does It Choose The Best Man?

    By Harry Louis Selden, October 1962, Volume 13, Issue 6

    It nearly Put Burr in the saddle in 1800 It failed to confirm the people’s choice in 1824, 1876, and 1888 It could have ditched Kennedy in 1960 More >>>

  9. The Election That Got Away

    By Louis W. Koenig, October 1960, Volume 11, Issue 6

    A loophole in the Constitution made it possible for the winner of the popular majority in 1876, Tilden, to lose to Hayes in the electoral college amid bitterness, fraud, and chicanery. It could happen again More >>>

  10. Alice Paul: “I Was Arrested, Of Course…”

    By Robert S. Gallagher, February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2

    An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul More >>>

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