On July 19, 1848, reformers convened in Seneca Falls to demand women’s rights, launching the US women’s suffrage movement.

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The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...

Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

The Golden Age of DC Comics, launched by the arrival of Superman on the scene in 1938, introduced some of the most iconic ...

The scandal over the cover-up of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein recalls explosive affairs like Stavisky in 1930s France and ...

The post-Reconstruction United States has never seen durable progressive change without the labor movement’s involvement. The postwar economy’s rapid, widely distributed gains in material conditions ...

The third season of The Gilded Age has been mocking a historical movement, and its being very wrongheaded in its approach ...

After decades of struggle, Washington women won the right to vote in 1910. This victory would prove to be a breakthrough on ...

The first third party, the Anti-Masons emerged in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret society. The disappearance ...

A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned labor and political leader for much of the 20th century, fits the bill.  A ...