In the News

To arrange a media appearance, email Barbara at Barbara.F.Berenson@gmail.com.

Interviews

Radio, Podcasts and Television

• Women's Rights After the Nineteenth Amendment
• Waiting for Liberty Podcast Series
• The 19th Amendment was not the End of the Story, Tufts University Website Interview Commemorating Centennial
• Hub History Podcast January 19, 2020
• Historian, Borderland: The Life & Times of Blanche Ames
• After Suffrage: A 20/20 Perspective on Equal Rights, NewTV  
• ​Berenson discusses Women's Suffrage on Books and Beyond, October 2019 
• Author To Talk Massachusetts Suffragist Movement At Williams
  Berkshire Public Radio WAMC (also heard on nationally syndicated show 51%)
• Discovering The Law: Womens Suffrage
  Boston Cable TV, July 11, 2019
• Barbara Berenson & Suffrage History For ERA: Same Tactic, Different Century
  Woman's Journal 2.0 Episode 4; Equal Means Equal Podcast
• Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers
  Presentation at Westborough Public Library, March 19, 2019, Westborough TV
• Revolutionary Reformers: MA in the Woman Suffrage Movement
  Presentation at the Wellesley Free Library, March 14, 2019, Wellesley Public Media
• Massachusetts' Forgotten Role In The Women's Suffrage Movement
  Radio Boston, WBUR with Meghna Chakrabarti, May 1, 2018
• Deeds Not Words
  Interview with Bradley Jay on WBZ Radio, April 8, 2018
• How Massachusetts Women Played a Role in Changing History
  NECN, March 6, 2018​
• Revolutionary Reformers, Weston, October 2019

Newspapers

• After 100 Years of Voting, What's Next for Women's Rights
  Tab Newspapers, Wicked Local, August 18, 2020
• South Shore women helped lead the way to suffrage
  Patriot Ledger, August 18, 2020
• Why Mass.’s role in the suffrage movement is often overlooked
  The Boston Globe, June 27, 2019​
• Berenson to Talk on Equal Rights Amendment, Boston Globe, September 29, 2019    ​
• Massachusetts' Overlooked Suffrage Movement, Hyde Park Bulletin, Fall 2019  
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• Newton Author Barbara Berenson Chronicles Women's Rights Movement
  Newton Patch, Jun 20, 2019​
• Mass. as the cradle of women’s rights
  Boston Sunday Globe, April 8, 2018 (scroll to second review)
• GETTING THE VOTE: New book highlights Massachusetts suffragettes
  Patriot Ledger, March 31, 2018
• The Suffragists and Their Descendants
  Letter to the Editor, New York Times, August 3, 2018
• New book highlights women leaders behind the Massachusetts women’s suffrage movement
  ​Newton Tab, March 7, 2018
  Brookline Tab, March 4, 2018
• Women’s groups seeking change through alliances
  Worcester Telegram, June 28, 2018​

Musings

• The Danger of Donald Trump: Prejudice Can Fuel Gross Miscarriages of Justice
  Made by History, Washington Post, Wednesday April 15, 2020
• Learning from the Suffragists
  ​Newton Tab, June 26, 2019
• Politicians beware: Crossing women comes at a hefty cost
  Made by History, Washington Post, Wednesday, October 15, 2018

Announcements

• Berenson is expert educator for Bill of Rights (virtual) summer institute Justice and the Judiciary for educators, July 2020. 
• Berenson to be Expert Educator summer 2020 at Smithsonian at Chautauqua: The Battle for Women’s Suffrage (event postponed due to Covid-19).
• Berenson's book wins Editor's Choice Award from the Historical Journal of Massachusetts (summer 2019).
• Berenson's book special edition for 2020 centennial:  

At the start of the 20th century, suffragists set out to change public perceptions of the movement. Courtesy, Library of Congress.

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