The Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S.

Primary Sources, Reform Essays, and the Fight for Women's Enfranchisement in AmericaBy Harriot Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Addams, Ida Husted Harper, Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Matilda Gage
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The Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. gathers speeches, historical reflections, polemics, and political testimony into a capacious account of the long struggle for women's enfranchisement. Moving from constitutional argument and abolitionist-inflected reform to organizing strategy and critiques of entrenched social power, the volume reveals suffrage as both a legal demand and a transformative cultural project. Its standout documents preserve the urgency of convention rhetoric, campaign writing, and retrospective history, while registering tensions over citizenship, race, religion, labor, and political equality. The collection unites foundational organizers, theorists, public lecturers, journalists, and historians whose work shaped American feminist activism across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, and their contemporaries helped articulate a radical language of rights; Jane Addams and Anna Howard Shaw broadened suffrage's social-reform horizons; Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida Husted Harper, and Alice Stone Blackwell illuminate the movement's later organizational and documentary labor. Together, these voices situate woman suffrage within abolitionism, Progressivism, and the wider international currents of democratic reform. Essential for students and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually rich encounter with a movement speaking in many registers. Readers will find historical evidence, intellectual debate, and persuasive prose in productive dialogue, gaining both a broad chronology and a deeper appreciation of the unresolved questions that animated the campaign for political equality.

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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length393 hrs 30 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Heavenly Twins (Annotated)
2History of Woman Suffrage (1848-1920)
3Volume 1: 1848-1861
4Preface.
5Introduction.
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6CHAPTER I. Preceding Causes.
7CHAPTER II. Woman in Newspapers.
8CHAPTER III. The World's Anti-Slavery Convention, London, June 12, 1840.
9CHAPTER IV. New York.
10CHAPTER V. Reminiscences.
11CHAPTER VI. Ohio. (pt. 1)
12CHAPTER VI. Ohio. (pt. 2)
13CHAPTER VII. Reminiscences By Clarina I. Howard Nichols.
14CHAPTER VIII. Massachusetts. (pt. 1)
15CHAPTER VIII. Massachusetts. (pt. 2)
16CHAPTER VIII. Massachusetts. (pt. 3)
17CHAPTER IX. Indiana and Wisconsin.
18CHAPTER X. Pennsylvania. (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER X. Pennsylvania. (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER X. Pennsylvania. (pt. 3)
21CHAPTER XI. Lucretia Mott.
22CHAPTER XII. New Jersey.
23CHAPTER XIII. Reminiscences.
24CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 1)
25CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 2)
26CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 3)
27CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 4)
28CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 5)
29CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 6)
30CHAPTER XIV. New York. (pt. 7)
31CHAPTER XV. Woman, Church, and State. (pt. 1)
32CHAPTER XV. Woman, Church, and State. (pt. 2)
33APPENDIX. (pt. 1)
34APPENDIX. (pt. 2)
35APPENDIX. (pt. 3)
36Volume 2: 1861-1876
37Preface.
38CHAPTER XVI. Woman's Patriotism in the War. (pt. 1)
39CHAPTER XVI. Woman's Patriotism in the War. (pt. 2)
40CHAPTER XVI. Woman's Patriotism in the War. (pt. 3)
41CHAPTER XVII. Congressional Action. (pt. 1)
42CHAPTER XVII. Congressional Action. (pt. 2)
43CHAPTER XVIII. National Conventions in 1866-67. (pt. 1)
44CHAPTER XVIII. National Conventions in 1866-67. (pt. 2)
45CHAPTER XIX. The Kansas Campaign—1867.
46CHAPTER XX. New York Constitutional Convention. (pt. 1)
47CHAPTER XX. New York Constitutional Convention. (pt. 2)
48CHAPTER XXI. Reconstruction.
49CHAPTER XXII. National Conventions—1869. (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER XXII. National Conventions—1869. (pt. 2)

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