In 1920, suffragist Molly Dewson sat down to write a letter of congratulations to Maud Wood Park, who had just been chosen as the first president of the League of Women Voters, formed in anticipation ...

Two months ago Mrs. Roosevelt told her husband to be prepared for a convention of Democratic women who were coming to Washington. Part of a program of solid, tweedy, 66-year-old Mary Williams. (“Molly ...

“Partner and I have been bursting with pride and satisfaction,” she wrote. Dewson didn’t need to specify who “partner” was. Park already knew that Dewson was in a committed relationship with Polly ...