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 allowed ...

Grant. The letter was signed by Victoria Woodhull. Woodhull, who had been born poor in an Ohio frontier settlement, embodied the ethos of America, a try-anything country with radical individualism ...

When it comes to royal baby boy names, the moniker Albert is head and shoulders above the rest, with a whopping 12 British ...

Following a decent opening double bill on the 1916 Black Tom Island bombing in New York, Olusoga and Churchwell have moved on to the story of Victoria Woodhull, the “completely forgotten ...

One of the earliest American women to blaze a trail in finance was suffragette Victoria Woodhull. In 1870, she and her sister, Tennessee, became the first female stockbrokers and opened the first ...

Free love entered the socialist movement via spiritualism, a veritable hotbed of free love doctrine, when Victoria Woodhull endorsed free love in Woodhull and Claflin's. The open statement of ...

March 31, 2025 • NPR animator and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in 1870 announcing she was running for president — 50 ...