Suffrage and American Women in Politics
Historian Elisabeth Griffith examined the legacy of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote and pondered the question: did suffrag… read more
Historian Elisabeth Griffith examined the legacy of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote and pondered the question: did suffrage matter? With women currently making up only twenty percent of Congress, the biographer of Elizabeth Cady Stanton discussed how the women’s vote has changed and not changed American politics. close
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