Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Some suffragists voted illegally and served time in prison ... opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century.

Mary Anne McCracken had frequently argued for improvements in women’s lives. In the second half of the 19th century ... and went to prison. From the start of the 20th century to the beginning ...

As the film suggests, the lives of nineteenth-century women were deeply shaped by the so-called “cult of true womanhood,” a collection of attitudes that associated “true” womanhood with ...