Baker, Jean H

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Votes for women

The struggle for suffrage revisited
In Votes For Women , Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party, the essential elements of this tumultuous story emerge in these finely-tuned chapters. So too do the themes and historical controversies about suffrage and its leaders, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Alice Paul. Contributors focus on how the suffrage battle was interwoven with constitutional issues at the federal and state level and how the suffrage struggle played out in different regions, especially the West and the South, as well as the activities of opponents to women's voting. Baker's introductory essay sets the stage for revisiting suffrage by making explicit the similarities and differences in interpretations of suffrage and shows how the movement intersected with other events in American history and cannot be studied in isolation from them. This volume is essential reading for those interested in American politics and women's formal participation in it.

Margaret Sanger

a life of passion
2012
A biography of feminist Margaret Sanger, an influential advocate for birth control and women's rights.

Building America

the life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
2020
Chronicles the life and career of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the United States Captiol building,the White H ouse, and the Navy Yard.

Mary Todd Lincoln

a biography
2008
A biography Mary Todd Lincoln, discussing her childhood as an orphan in Kentucky, her marriage to Abraham Lincoln, their children and family life, the criticism she endured as first lady, and the rumors of mental instability that plagued her later years.

Sisters

the lives of America's suffragists
2006

Votes for women

the struggle for suffrage revisited
2002
A collection of essays that explore women's suffrage in the context of the national and international history of citizenship and the expansion of democracy.

Mary Todd Lincoln

a biography
1989
A biography of the privileged daughter of a proud family who married President Lincoln and never recovered from his death.

James Buchanan

2004
Chronicles the life of James Buchanan, the fifteenth president, discussing his forty-year political career, the impact he had on the American government, his role in the Civil War, and the impact his stubborn personality had on his presidency.

Margaret Sanger

a life of passion
2011
A biography of feminist Margaret Sanger, an influential advocate for birth control and women's rights.
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