Author: Judith Wellman
Judith Wellman is professor emerita, History Department, State University of New York at Oswego, and principal investigator, Historical New York Research Associates, where her work focuses on historic sites relating to women’s rights, the Underground Railroad, and African American life.
What Can Historic Sites Tell Us about the Movement for Women’s Suffrage in New York State?
New York, then the nation’s most populous state, generated reform movements in the nineteenth century that swept across the country like whirlwinds, changing the face of America. Among them was the women’s rights movement. We all know the names of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Carrie Chapman Catt. The first …
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