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Fifteen years ago, I experienced a personal seismic shift as I first entered the Sewall Belmont House & Museum. How could I not have known about the National Woman’s Party? Raised in an educated Midwestern family of community activists, I was incensed that the early 20th Century suffragists’ stories were not included in my school [...]

Today marks  90 years of American women’s right to vote.   In 1971, the  United States Congress has set August 26 as Women’s Equality Day to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.  This day in history, not only serves as a reminder of the passing of the 19th [...]