On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, became the law of the land. The real timeline of women voting in Evanston is a little more complicated.
Decades...
It’s a Friday night, and you and 50 of your closest friends are huddled together outside Mark II Lounge. After constantly checking your phone and complaining about how long you’ve been waiting, you...
“Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty” and “Liberty is a woman” appeared in all-caps on signs made 100 years apart.
Suffragists protesting President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 made...
The question of how to not just “display” but “dismantle” the United States’ racist past was key to a new digital exhibit about Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells. Lori Osborne, the director of...
The Frances Willard House Museum commemorated the social reformer’s 180th birthday Sunday with an open house, where it showcased a selection of some of its thousands of original artifacts.
The museum...
