LGBTQ Nation asked our elder readers to tell us how life has changed for LGBTQ+ people in the past decades, and we got a lot of responses! Here’s one of them. Cyndia, one of our readers, sent us a ...

Peggy Macdonald, PhD was working on an exhibit about local health care when she came across a map from 1968 listing the country’s top five most influential cities in the battle for women’s rights. She ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

On March 8, 2024, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks delivered remarks from the Pentagon to commemorate International Women’s Day. Hicks, a devoted civil servant and herself one of the most ...

One hundred years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, I, an American woman, cast my first vote. The National Woman’s Party triumphed in obtaining women’s suffrage in August 1920, after ...