In this final episode of Hindsight, we will explore how women became active participants in the political process and candidates for political office ..read more

As the United States celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, KMUW is celebrating too with a behind the scenes peek of the new podcast, Hindsight. Creator Dr. Robin Henry sat down with Sarah Jane Crespo to discuss her method of capturing the history and importance of the women’s rights movement, as well as how it’s still relevant today ..read more

Hold a credit card, buy a house, or take out a loan in her own name ..read more

Phoebe King Ensminger Burn. That name probably doesn’t sound familiar to you. But on Aug. 18, 1920, Miss Febb, as she was known, might have become the most famous mother, at least in suffrage history ..read more

On this episode of Hindsight, we will dive deeper into the roles that regionalism and race played in the development and evolution of the suffrage movement and in the campaigns to win suffrage state-by-state ..read more

In 1920, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment recognizing women's voting rights. Over the next year, we will explore, commemorate, and celebrate the history of women's suffrage in the United States and discover what role voting played in the social, political, legal, and economic changes of the 20th and 21st centuries ..read more

Seneca Falls ..read more

Seneca Falls. New York. July 1848. Wesleyan Chapel. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Lucretia Mott. "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." This brief description of the "world-shaking" event was sent to the local newspapers advertising the first women's right's convention. The convention lasted two days and took place over six sessions, offering presentations, lectures, and multiple discussions about the role of women in society. The result was a document that would serve as the foundation of women's rights in the United States and fuel a movement that ..read more

In 1915, the American humor magazine Puck , known for its political cartoons and satire, published a special edition, guest edited by New York State suffrage groups, in anticipation of the upcoming statewide referendum on women’s suffrage. The centerfold illustration, called “The Awakening” and drawn by Henry Mayer, depicts Lady Liberty, with the slogan "Votes for Women" emblazoned on her tunic, awakening the nation to women’s desire for suffrage, walking across the already-enfranchised American West, toward the East, where women were reaching up, clamoring to be saved by her. Printed just bel ..read more

If necessity is the mother of invention, then conflict both presents new challenges and opportunities and requires us to consider what our necessities actually are. In this episode of Hindsight , we will explore the development of the woman’s movement between 1850 and 1875 ..read more