Participant Info
- First Name
- Jennifer
- Last Name
- Helton
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- jhelton@ohlone.edu
- Affiliation
- Ohlone College
- Website URL
- https://www.jenniferhelton.org
- Keywords
- Women's suffrage, Wyoming, American West, Voting Rights, Women
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I write about the history of women’s suffrage in Wyoming and the American West.
- Recent Publications
Gender Studies Elimination Would Have Rewritten Wyo’s History, WyoFile, March 9, 2022.
“‘The Desire for That Measure of Justice’: Consciousness, Political Expediency, and the Rise of Women’s Suffrage in Montana and the West, 1869-1920.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 71, no. 4 (Winter, 2021) : 43–59. Winner of the 2022 Paladin Award for best article to appear in Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
Woman Suffrage in the West, in The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Access to the Vote Across America. ed. Dr. Tamara Gaskell. National Park Service, 2019. This essay was reprinted in Women Making History: The 19th Amendment, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2021.“So Great An Innovation: Women’s Suffrage in Wyoming,” in Equality at the Ballot Box, ed. Lori Lahlum and Molly Rozum. Pierre, SD: South Dakota Historical Society Press, October 2019.
To Pass Suffrage, Wyoming Embraced Radical Innovation, WyoFile, December 10, 2019.
So Great an Innovation: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, South Dakota Historical Society Press Blog. November 2019
Since the 1870s, the West Has Led the Way for Women in Politics, High Country News, September 11, 2019
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @jenniferhelton
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Politics, Women
