#GAReads | On the Trail of America's First Women to Vote

A Howard Pyle engraving in 1880 from Harper’s Weekly captioned with “Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times.”

“On the Trail of America's First Women to Vote”:

It has long been seen as one of the flukes of American political history: For three decades after the American Revolution, the women of New Jersey had equal voting rights with men.

The state was the first — and for a long time, the only — to explicitly enfranchise women, in laws passed more than a century before the 19th Amendment enshrined the principle of gender equality at the polls in the United States Constitution. But this being New Jersey, things quickly came to mischief.

Read Jennifer Schuessler’s full article at The New York Times here…