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Pelosi rebuked to her face during Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by 'guns, gays,...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRep. Nancy Pelosi was seemingly mocked as an “elite" during a recent Oxford Union debate after she...
What the Broadway Musical 'Suffs' Gets Right (and Wrong) About the History of Women's Suffrage
Smithsonian Magazine· 8 hours agoIn 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was formulating a “new code of laws”...
Column: America’s 250th is worthy of celebration and unity
The Virginian-Pilot· 2 days agoIt is hard to imagine Americans afraid to celebrate America. Should the 250th anniversary of the...
On this day in history, May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issues proclamation creating Mother's...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOn May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that mothers should be honored with flags flying...
Mary McLeod Bethune, Known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ Also Sought to Unify the African...
Skanner· 1 day agoWhen I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C ...
The Surprising Feminist Life of President Theodore Roosevelt
Glamour via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAnthony and pledged support for what became the Nineteenth Amendment but only after the movement...
Vintage photos show what life was like for women 100 years ago
Business Insider· 6 days agoIn the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. ...
American Law Feels Utterly Broken. We Can Actually Do Something About It, Though.
Slate· 7 days agoThis is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...
The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
Time via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNew York, Rhode Island, and of course Hawaii, not a state until 1959, never took action on the proposed amendment. Voters in other states ...
The mothers of America get their day
Arizona Daily Sun· 6 days agoCarnations have come to represent the day as they were distributed at one of the first commemorations honoring the mother...Jarvis, a ...
