Nearly all white men could vote for president in the 1856 election. Free African American men could only vote in six northern ...

In an 1866 meeting where Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony argued about whether to prioritize suffrage for black men or ...

At a time when most Northern states only allowed white men to vote, delegate W.J. Whipper proposed a crazy idea: universal ...

In France in early 1848 the bourgeois revolutionaries had introduced a species of universal suffrage (though it was limited ...

Universal (white) male suffrage had brought a new breed of politician — war heroes, savvy, commonsense fellows with none of the aristocrat about them. Crockett cut quite a figure there — but ...

A new biography of Woodrow Wilson puts the 28th president’s racism and sexism at the center of its narrative—and his ...

but suffrage was extended to almost all white men by 1856. Slaves were never allowed to vote, and despite universal suffrage for all black men following the Civil War, oppressive Jim Crow laws ...

Donald Trump’s mythical narrative of decline and decay seeks to replace our national origin story: that this country is ...

The Light Withdrawn," which will be released on Nov. 5, recounts the history of Woodrow Wilson’s racism and his opposition to ...

Not only was the Fourteenth Amendment enacted (despite feminist opposition to its exclusive guarantees of male suffrage), but ... from arguing in the name of universal human rights to exploiting ...

The right for women to vote is one of the most significant milestones in the history of gender equality. It was not achieved ...

A better, more comprehensive way to explain the outcome is to conceptualize 2024 as the second pandemic election. Trump’s ...