Christabel Pankhurst believed the women suffragists were fighting for a revolution. In 1918, some eligible British women got the right to vote, while American women got it in 1920. […]
Emancipation only started the fight for Black Americans’ rights. For another century, hardships like Jim Crow laws and racial violence by white supremacists terrorized Black America. A new Wondrium series examines America after emancipation. […]
A tribute song to Abraham Lincoln and emancipation spread like wildfire. Written by two African American brothers, it grew from Florida to a national sensation in just a few years. This week on Wondrium Shorts, taking a look at “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” […]
William and Mary, the new monarchs of England at the end of the 17th century, agreed to limit their monarchical powers. Colonists saw this agreement as extending even beyond the Atlantic. […]
Even when the Parliament of England repealed all the duties that stemmed from the Townshend Acts, it kept the taxes imposed on tea. This was not to Samuel Adams’s liking. […]
Colonists protested the passing of Stamp Act, arguing that the act had to be passed by colonial legislatures. A reason for this protest was that they had got used to a mostly self-administration. […]
Let’s take a look at Samuel Adams’s formative years and also how democratization of the religious experience would play a role in h radical ideas about liberty and equality during the American Revolution. […]
After losing support from activists and getting ruined by the Beecher scandal, Victoria Woodhull moved to England to reinvent herself. There she lived as a gentlewoman till her death in 1927. […]
Victoria Woodhull was popular with reformers who fought for women’s rights. However, she soon lost their support when they got to know of her past and her ideas about free love. […]
Victoria Woodhull decided to run for president during the 1872 election. Though she had no chance of winning, she claimed political power by running for office rather than working with suffragists to ask for it. […]
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