by Marianna Iliadis | Dec 4, 2023
The fight for women’s suffrage was an ongoing struggle throughout American history and came after many years of effort by many different people. The right to vote did not come easy for American women, and this picture illustrates the continual opposition that women...
by Ava Cammisa | Nov 15, 2022
This digital image file is titled, “Women’s lib[eration] march from Farrugut Sq[uare] to Layfette [i.e., Lafayette] P[ar]k / [WKL].” This image was captured by Warren K. Leffler on August 26, 1970. The black and white photograph pictures, “Women carrying banners...
by Natalie Heim | May 2, 2022
Drafted in New York in 1848, this “Declaration of Sentiments” provided by the Library of Congress highlights the growing interests during the nineteenth century in the women’s movement for suffrage as well as the reformation of society’s denial of women having rights...
by Julianna Pansini | Nov 30, 2021
The Votes for women bandwagon political cartoon provided by the Library of Congress best describes the state of America, for women, around the twentieth century. The Women’s Suffrage Movement was established because “nineteenth and early twentieth century women who...
by Juliana Loukachouk | Nov 4, 2020
Corn: The Food of The Nation was an American propaganda poster created by Lloyd Harrison for the United States Food Administration in 1918, during the Great War. The Great War was a time in which President Wilson needed to shape the nation in a way to encourage...