Since March 2015 the online journal and database, Women and Social Movements in the United States (WASM), has been engaged in successive projects to create an Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. The Dictionary will include about 400 biographies of activists of the National Woman’s Party, 200 Black women suffragists, and 2,500 […]
OAH Women’s History Luncheon
The Women and Social Movements websites are sponsoring a luncheon at the upcoming OAH annual meeting in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, April 9, 12:20-1:50 in the Room 556B of the Conference Center. There we will talk about our new initiatives with the websites: our suffrage crowdsourcing, the Black Women Suffragists collection, and our newest database, […]
CFP: Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920
To celebrate the centennial of the White House picketing for woman suffrage that began in January of 1917, the editors of Women and Social Movements in the United States invite women’s history faculty and students and independent scholars to join a crowdsourcing experiment. Historian Jill Zahniser compiled extensive information about women suffrage picketers and their […]
