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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is now available for purchase as a six folume set. Together the volumes in this set offer and extensive and in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.
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"Ann Gordon's shrewd selections, meticulous editing, and deeply-researched annotations make these volumes an extraordinary gift to historians for generations to come."
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"Ann Gordon’s brilliance in unearthing and preserving the Stanton-Anthony heritage will inform feminist scholarship for generations. These volumes are our history: factual, fair, and like the women themselves, often very funny. Read them with pride."
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"A handful of women ignited and fueled one of the world's most significant, ongoing revolutions, and thanks to Dr. Gordon's insightful and rigorous scholarship, these women come alive to challenge us today."
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"This six-volume collection is a valuable addition not only to our knowledge of Stanton and Anthony, but of nineteenth-century women’s activism as well."
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National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 is the third of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause of woman suffrage.
The third volume of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opens while woman suffragists await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases testing whether the Constitution recognized women as voters within the terms of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. At its close they are pursuing their own amendment to the Constitution and pressing the presidential candidates of 1880 to speak in its favor. Through their letters, speeches, articles, and diaries, the volume recounts the national careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights, their protests during the Centennial Year of 1876, and the launch that same year of their campaign for a Sixteenth Amendment.
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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Volumes I - VI are now available for purchase as a six volume set. Together the volumes in this set offer an extraordinary collection that tells a story-both personal and public, about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage and provides the most extensive in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of two of America’s most important social and political reformers. Readers will enjoy over 2,000 letters, speeches, articles, and diaries excerpts transcribed from their originals, the authenticity of each confirmed or explained, with notes to allow for intelligent reading.
Volume I opens when Stanton was twenty-five and Anthony was twenty. Volume 6 concludes when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause and their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world.
About the Author
Ann D. Gordon is a research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University. She is the editor of this six-volume series.