Tag Archives: Susan B. Anthony
Tender Hands: Rediscovering the Sculptor
For years, gathering dust and love in equal measure, the hands lay upon whatever flat surface could be found in overcrowded offices of people editing the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. No one we talked to … Continue reading
“Being Then & There a Person of the Female Sex”: A Citizen’s Right to Vote
On January 23, 1873, one hundred and forty-four years ago, a federal grand jury of men, in Albany, New York, indicted Susan B. Anthony for being a female. It was one moment in a chain of events that led not … Continue reading
Universal Suffrage–Now That Would be Something to Celebrate! Thoughts on the 19th Amendment and “Women’s Equality Day”
It happened again in this summer of woman suffrage: someone emailed me to ask, “Did either Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton write the 19th Amendment?” There are two possible answers to this query: first, “What’s to write?” and … Continue reading
“You Got a Right, I Got a Right”: What If We Team Up, 1903
Susan B. Anthony, age eighty-three and traveling with her sister and her doctor, reached New Orleans by train on the night of March 17, 1903. No longer an elected leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she could arrive … Continue reading
“Set the wild echoes flying”: Helen Potter Impersonates
The letter’s dateline reads Hazleton, Sunday, October 21, 1877. “My dear Miss Potter,” the writer begins, As you are to imitate Mrs Stanton here I thought I would tell you how I was dressed last night that you may come … Continue reading
“To Celebrate Worthily”: When Birthdays Are No Longer Your Own
Susan B. Anthony’s 80th birthday, 115 years ago today, coincided with her retirement from the presidency of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association at its annual convention in Washington, D.C. Elaborate birthday celebrations kept returning to the topic of race in … Continue reading
Under the Snow, Politics Flourishes
The original caption to this photograph taken near Cooper Lake, Wyoming, reads, “Six Passenger Trains Snowed in on the Laramie Plains. Union Pacific Railway, Winter of 1869-70.” Passengers were snowed in for weeks. Grenville Dodge, the engineer who surveyed and … Continue reading
Rochester 1904 / French Teenager Takes in Top Tourist Attractions
Some historical details are simply unexpected encounters, unusual convergences, or just the fact that records of a story survive. Fifteen-year-old Hélène Stanton hopped off the 9 p.m. train in Rochester, New York, on 7 November 1904, while visiting the U.S. … Continue reading
From Leavenworth, Lincoln’s Assassination
When the subject is Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, attention is usually focused on Washington, D.C. Perhaps you remember that the assassin John Wilkes Booth leapt from the president’s box in Ford’s Theater to the stage after committing murder on a Friday … Continue reading
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