Her Hat Was In The Ring!

My colleagues and I from the Her Hat Project now have more than 6,000 biographical entries. This wealth of data permits us to begin to analyze who these women were, why they ran for elective office, where they succeeded most fully (and where they did not), and how they fared in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century as opposed to the Progressive Era.

In August 2026 analysis of this data will appear in our book Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States (New York University Press).

To see the primary data that we drew upon to write this book, please visit www.herhatwasinthering.org.