Jane Addams (1860–1935) was a Progressive reformer and the most prominent advocate for the settlement house movement, which was dedicated to improving social conditions for immigrants and other r...

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the final push for the vote before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. She al...

Carry A. Nation (1846–1911) was a deeply religious temperance activist in Kansas. Nation secured a place for herself in the history books when she traded her seemingly ineffective Women's Christi...

Alice Paul (1885–1977), suffragette and founder of the National Women's Party, was a central figure in the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage and one of the most radical...

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) was a prominent African-American activist who served as president of the National Association of Colored Women, the only national organization that represented Bla...

William Marcy Tweed (1823–1878), commonly known as Boss Tweed, led Tammany Hall, New York City's notorious Democratic political machine. During the 1860s and '70s, Tweed and his Tammany associate...

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the 26th President of the United States, a leader of the Republican Party and, later, the Progressive movement. He was the first president to become a truly "po...