Melanie Gustafson

Melanie Gustafson teaches at the University of Vermont and has written about the woman suffrage movement and women in partisan politics.

Women’s Equality Day

August 26, 2016By Melanie Gustafson

Putting women back into American political history

Looking at the rioters in Baltimore, or any other place, in isolation misses the point.

Our Past is Written in Stone

Mothers’ Day did not start as a way to encourage people to be nice to their mothers, but as an impassioned effort by women to end war forever.

Exploring an important step toward the abolition of slavery in the United States