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Susan Ware

Auteur van America's History: Since 1865

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Susan Ware is the author of American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction and Letter to The World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century, and the Editor of the Library of America's American Women's Suffrage: Voices From the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965. She has written many toon meer women back into history as general editor of the American National Biography. Ware is Honorary Women's Suffrage Centennial Historian at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. toon minder

Werken van Susan Ware

America's History: Since 1865 (1987)sommige edities140 exemplaren
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 109 exemplaren
Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon (2007) 14 exemplaren

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Women, Politics, and Change (1990) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren

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American Women’s Suffrage is the newest edition in the Library of America’s incredible collection of American literature and historical writings. In this collection, advocates and opponents of women’s suffrage from 1776 to 1965 are heard once again. It’s an extensive anthology and took me quite some time to read as I tended to read one or two pieces and then read something else.

We first hear from Abigail Adams as she fruitlessly encouraged her husband to ensure women’s rights. We also hear from him citing the still common, and false, assertion that women actually are in charge. “We are the subjects. We have only the Name of Masters, and rather than give up this, which would compleatly subject Us to the Despotism of the Peticoat.” There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun.

The last person we hear from is Fannie Lou Hamer who described how she was dispossessed of her home, arrested, and beaten for registering to vote to the credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee.

In between, many women write of their desire for suffrage, to be full citizens in their country. We hear from Black women organizing and speaking for women’s suffrage even before the Civil War, not just during the Civil Rights Era. This book does an excellent job of restoring women to their place in history. We also hear from the men, the editorials moaning about all the terrible consequences. Seriously, Rush Limbaugh is unimaginative compared to the 1852 “New York Herald.”

American Women’s Suffrage is excellent. It has the comprehensive coverage I expect from the Library of America. It fills in the gaps and erasures in the story of organizing for the vote. In this year where turnout exceeded all expectations in spite of so many things that could have suppressed the vote, it seems an ideal time to study how women won the right to vote.

I received an e-galley of American Women’s Suffrage from NetGalley.

American Women’s Suffrage at the Library of America
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Tonstant.Weader | Jan 9, 2021 |
This is an interesting book which covers the lives and historic contributions to American history of some fairly unknown and forgotten people. Most were unknown to me, which is the purpose of reading the book. However, I was distressed that their contribution was actually only covered tangentially in explaining the situation. For example, George Druillard, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition--most time was spent on L&C, not the subject, George. Good book, though.
 
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buffalogr | Nov 12, 2018 |
I loved this book about a once-hugely famous broadcasting celebrity (think Oprah) who is virtually unknown today. I love reading about radio and TV broadcasting history, and this was a really interesting biography of a personality who had a huge impact on the daily lives of millions of ordinary Americans.
 
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scribe-214 | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 7, 2018 |
This volume brings entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1999. The era they shared coincides with the great expansion of opportunities for women in the twentieth century.
 
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baroondita | Jan 30, 2018 |

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