Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that marks a ...

LOS ANGELES — Allison Lange, a women’s suffrage historian, grew up reading the "American Girl" novels, which portrayed the lives of corresponding American Girl dolls in 19th and 20th century America.

When Neylan McBaine told her friends in Brooklyn that she was moving to Salt Lake City a few years ago, she was shocked by the negative reactions she got. People warned her that Utah was unfriendly to ...

Theodosia Ammons was a force. At the turn of the 20th century, Ammons went from Colorado schoolteacher to co-founder of Colorado Agricultural College's department of domestic economy. Soon, she was ...

On August 18, 1920—a full century ago—the 19th Amendment was ratified by Tennessee's legislature. But that date marks neither the beginning nor the end of the struggle for suffrage. The movement to ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article by Marty Kuhlman, a history ...

Helen Stone Schluraff (1884-1964) — a Fairview native, early Erie County suffragette and businesswoman — was the first Pennsylvania woman elected to be a county commissioner. For a good dose of more ...

Time can often twist the real story, turning rumor into legend. There's plenty of "history" surrounding the 19th Amendment and the suffragists that needs to be unlearned. The idea that all women ...

Art by Libby VanderPloeg, featured in She Votes: How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn, published by Chronicle Books 2020. After decades of struggle by American women — ...

Andrews Osborne Academy celebrates Founders Day, launches Alumni Legacy Challenge Going to Bat for Small Business returns for 2026 Lake County Captains season Bridge replacement project begins on ...

It was 1915. Allentown and Bethlehem were booming and bustling places in the heart of the nation's industrial revolution. But another revolution was also confronting conservative Pennsylvania Dutch ...