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Exhibit Extended Indefinitely
CORRECTION 12/1/12: This Exhibit is over. It was not extended indefinitely after all. 
by Olivia Twine
There’s an old hand-hewn wooden wagon on display at the New York State capital that’s the centerpiece of the exhibit “From Seneca Falls to the Supreme Court; New York’s Women Leading the Way.” Called “Spirit of 1776,” the wagon [...]

EQUALITY DAY: How the 19th Amendment Finally Became Law in August 1920
By Maud Wood Park
This account of the final days before ratification of the woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution comes from the closing chapter in suffrage leader Maud Wood Park’s first-person account, “Front Door Lobby.” It has been slightly edited for length from [...]

by Lisa Frederiksen
Washington was the 5th state to grant women full suffrage – 10 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified! Often, people are not aware that some states had granted women suffrage long before the 19th Amendment. When you look at this map of suffrage in the United States, women suffrage in America was [...]