Cathryn Brown (Rep.) was elected by the constituents of New Mexico to represent their interests. But I wonder if those voters knew an abortion bill that denies abortion to the victims of rape was part of her agenda.
150 years and still looking good!
This week marks the 150 year anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing a multitude of slaves.
Seeing Suffrage now available for the iPad on the iBookstore
Now, as we approach the centennial of the Washington Suffrage Parade, a new book containing an explanation of the parade and more than 100 exquisite photographs has been published. Seeing Suffrage: The Washington Suffrage Parade, Its Photographs, and Its Effect on the American Political Landscape is now available as an iPad book on the iBookstore. The print edition of the book, published by the University of Tennessee Press, will be available sometime after January 1, 2013.
Women Senators in 2012: An All Time High
The number of women elected to Senate seats has risen drastically since 1993, from 7 to 20 starting with the new 113th Senate. Implications?
How long did you wait in line to vote?
No One in America Should Have to Wait 7 Hours to Vote – The Atlantic.
Check out this interactive timeline of women’s suffrage history in Nevada!
Women’s Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) — A Century of Progress and Tradition.
A truly silly video from the New York Times
The opinions section of the New York Times has put together a truly silly video of people expressing some profoundly inane reasons why you shouldn’t vote.
Early voting: Every day is Election Day
The New York Times has a roundup of early voting around the country and how it has changed the pace of elections.
The case for taking voting to the online environment
Ori Eisen, founder, chairman and chief innovation officer of online security firm 41st Parameter, makes the case for taking voting online in this Gigaon blog post, It’s Time to Take the Election Online.
Supreme Court considering challenge to Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act has been around for a very long time and has become part of the political fabric of the nation, especially the states in the South that are the specific targets of the act.
Seeing Suffrage
On March 3, 1913 - one day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as president - more than 5,000 women's suffrage supporters marched up Pennsylvania Avenue symbolically tracing the same route to power that the new president would take the next day.
The procession, conceived and produced by Alice Paul, was a statement by suffrage supporters that a new day had dawned in their quest to obtain voting rights for women.
The nation must be made to see suffrage.
What happened to them would be far different from what they or anyone else expected.
That's what Seeing Suffrage: The Washington Suffrage Parade of 1913, Its Pictures, and Its Effect on the American Political Landscape is about. The book will be published in January 2013 by the University of Tennessee Press.
And that's one of the main reasons for this site. But there's more. Please have a look around, and let us know what you think.
Photos from Seeing Suffrage
