It’s a great week to remember the 80s. Erstwhile teen idol Paul Anka is 83 years old. Blues titan Buddy Guy is 87. Richie Furay of Poco and Buffalo Springfield fame is 81, and Little Anthony (of the ...

Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, described herself as a "free lover" with the inalienable right to love whomever she chose, whenever she chose, for ...

Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

US Elections: Victoria Woodhull, The Woman Who Ran For President In 1872, ... They viewed Woodhull as an eccentric figure, and her bold stances on free love and spiritualism raised eyebrows.

Biographies and pulp fiction about America's first female presidential candidate, the Ohio-born Victoria Woodhull, a women's rights advocate dubbed Mrs. Satan by a hostile media in the late 19th ...

Woodhull was an advocate of free love, which did not mean what it came to mean a century later. To Woodhull, Bond said, free love “meant one was free to dissolve a marriage when love was no ...

With their wealth, they began a muckraking newspaper that argued for women's suffrage and free love. Woodhull became an influential speaker for women's rights and ran for president against Grant ...

Retired Kent State art professor Charles Basham is honored with a retrospective of his work, and a local doc shares the story of the first woman to run for U.S. President - Victoria Woodhull ...

A 19th-century illustration of Victoria Claflin Woodhull in New York City. | clu/GettyImages. That very same year, the sisters used the funds from the brokerage firm to start their own newspaper.

Victoria Woodhull was an activist for women’s rights and labor reforms, as well as “free love” -- by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social ...