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December 27, 2020 GMT AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Senate has passed a proposal to establish a museum honoring the history of American women that was proposed by senators from Maine and California. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California proposed “The Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act,” which passed the Senate as part of a year-end funding package. The museum would be located in Washington, D.C., the senators said. The Senate pass...

The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement Deborah Cohen © Provided by The Atlantic Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive / Shel Hershorn / Gado / Getty; Associated Press This article was published online on December 20, 2020. Women’s-suffrage campaigners and their equally adamant opponents were in full agreement on one fundamental point: Giving women the vote would change everything. It would end poverty, and wars, too! So promised Britain’s militant s...

Aug. 18 marked a century since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S. Marilyn McLeod, the League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County president, spoke to the Boone County Muleskinners on Friday — four months after the anniversary — about women’s suffrage, the progress that has been made and what is still to come. McLeod explained to the Muleskinners the controversy that is women’s rights and why it took so long for wo...

Eries 40 Under 40: Class of 2020 Erie Organizers Call for Charges Against Protestors to Be Dropped Local activist group offers questionnaire to decision-makers regarding proposed IRG plant SeaWolves Slide Into 2021 With More Certainty Related Articles by Kimberly Firestine11 hours ago The federal charges stem from May 30 events in Erie Erie County Sees 283 New COVID-19 Cases This Week by Nick Warren3/31/2021, 4:27 PM 43 new cases reported today, with three additional deaths this week Schember R...

On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne Bruce Weber Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex, by Katherine Manthorne (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020). 352 pp., color and b/w illus. Art historian Katherine E. Manthorne has written a welcome addition to recent studies devoted to American women artists and cultural figures of the past two centuries. The flurry of such publications is especially notewor...

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America December 14, 2020 In 1993, the New York City Fire Department issued a curious order, namely that no pictures could be taken of Brenda Berkman, a 15-year veteran of the force, on or off duty, inside or outside a firehouse. This proved to be one last gasp in the protest against women in what had been an all-male preserve for the department’s 117-year history. The fight had started much earlier. In 1971, Secretary of Labor...

CAMBRIDGE — Dorchester Center for the Arts will host a special exhibition on the centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and explores the complexity of the women’s suffrage movement and the relevance of this history to Americans’ lives today. The poster exhibition is presented courtesy of the Smithsonian American Women’s H...