For Women's History Month, I wanted to highlight Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in 1870 announcing that she was running for president. At the time, women were not ...

The story of the first women to work on Wall Street has everything. It is a rags to riches story of two sisters who made it from a small rural town in Ohio to the Big City, with spiritualism ...

It began with Victoria Woodhull, who was born here in 1838 and 34 years later became the first woman to run for president. Her problems then put Clinton’s now into perspective. In 1872 ...

150 years ago, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman in American history to run for president, at a time when most women couldn't even vote. One hundred fifty years ago, Victoria Woodhull did ...

Collinsworth is the author of the forthcoming The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and The First Woman to Run for President (Doubleday, 2025) On April 2, 1870, two years before ...

Victoria California Claflin, later Victoria Woodhull, hailed from the rural frontier town of Homer, Ohio. She came from a physically abusive home and married, divorced, and remarried young.

At 15, she married Canning Woodhull, an alcoholic and a womanizer, to escape from her family’s poverty. After their two children, Byron and Zula, were born, she divorced her husband but kept his ...

One of my two readers asked me the following question: "Why do you, a red-blooded, meat eating, hyper-masculine, American male, so heartily celebrate Women’s History Month every year?" I ...

Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee “Tennie” Claflin, whose professional and political pursuits challenged the male-dominated status-quo of the late nineteenth century. The sisters were active in ...

Carol Apacki and Connie Hawk are the 2024 recipients of The Robbins Hunter Museum's Victoria Woodhull Women of Achievement Award. The award recognizes their exceptional contributions to Licking ...