In Interpreting the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites, Page Harrington starts with an overview of recent histories of women’s voting rights and addresses the tensions around representing racism within the movement. The book includes four case studies to demonstrate the challenges and successes of portraying the racial divides. An appendix rounds up some of the resources created for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and features a broad timeline of the history of women’s rights. As a former executive director of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC, Harrington has vital firsthand knowledge of the opportunities and obstacles facing those who seek to tell a more complex story of the movement. Her book is a useful resource for anyone telling the history of women’s suffrage to the public.

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