It’s exciting. It’s dramatic. Our suffrage ancestors would be proud. I’m speaking of the buzz around the upcoming elections. With both presidential contenders out to woo the votes of women, there’s more than I can even read online. For starters, it was exciting when First Lady Michelle Obama mentioned suffrage activists being dragged off to…

  THIS EMAIL, WRITTEN BY NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST CONNIE SCHULTZ, WENT VIRAL A FEW YEARS AGO. It surfaces every election season. I know. It has arrived in my email box at least a dozen times and continues to remind us of what’s important. Here it is: This applies to everyone. become knowledgeable and vote! We owe…

GET THE FALL 2012 NEWSLETTER! IN THIS ISSUE: New video: “Women Voters Thank Their Suffrage Ancestors”; Grandmother Edna’s suffrage campaign wagon seen by thousands at New York State Capitol building; the book scholar Susan Ware never wrote about Alice Paul; how Kansas almost didn’t have a 2012 Votes for Women centennial; those who would repeal…

New video about the Republicans and Democrats and their appeals to women voters. The New Organizing Institute has resources and training for linking voting to leadership. Check out their activist toolbox. Our suffragist ancestors struggled for the right to vote. Now, use it! See video clip about women’s suffrage parade in San Diego! http://youtu.be/UoiQutqmrVI If…

This online quilt project speaks to tradition and connecting with the grandmothers and great grandmothers. It’s digital and exciting, whether or not you’re actually working on a suffrage quilt. I’ve signed up, just to be a vicarious participant. The site is: And the suffrage quilt block changes every week. The research about suffragists and the…

Even The New York Times has picked up on the feisty British women who have a Suffragette Summer School scheduled for September 2012. A new generation of activists are looking to their suffrage tradition and history to propel themselves into motion. Is the suffrage movement a thing of the past? “No,” they respond in a…

Check out this overview of Suffrage Wagon News Channel: who we are, how long we’ve been covering news and stories of the suffrage movement, plus why this work is important. ACTION ITEM: Help the National Women’s History Museum find a home. Sign a petition.

There’s nothing like a newspaper article of the period that reveals character. I found this article in the Nassau Post published on July 16, 1915 describing a Long Island suffrage parade. Edna Kearns is identified as the campaign press chair (second campaign district) and the way in which she addressed the crowd is noted. The reporter…

The conference held this week in Albany, New York attracted about 200 people from around the state to discuss the potential of natural, cultural, and heritage tourism in New York and to announce new signs erected on the state thruway and elsewhere directing travelers to various sites. This is excellent for artifacts such as the…