A woman wearing a voluminous feather hat at a horse race. Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Here, people attend a horse race at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England, around 1920.

Alice Reagan, a history professor at Northern Virginia Community College, gave a history talk on the women’s suffrage movement titled “The Occoquan Suffrage Prisoners,” at Lorton Library on ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...