Oregon Blue Book
Author | : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Oregon |
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Author | : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Oregon |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maroula Joannou |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719048609 |
Presents the best of recent feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity, richness and diversity.
Author | : Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465010148 |
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.
Author | : Martha S. Jones |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807888907 |
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights. Unlike white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black women, Jones explains, often organized within already existing institutions--churches, political organizations, mutual aid societies, and schools. Covering three generations of black women activists, Jones demonstrates that their approach was not unanimous or monolithic but changed over time and took a variety of forms, from a woman's right to control her body to her right to vote. Through a far-ranging look at politics, church, and social life, Jones demonstrates how women have helped shape the course of black public culture.
Author | : Michael Waldman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982198931 |
On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Author | : Lynn Sherr |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-09-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307765296 |
“Susan B. Anthony didn’t live long enough to see women get the vote, but her tireless dedication shines through on every page.”—The Washington Post Book World Failure Is Impossible brings together—for the first time—a wide-ranging, spirited collection of Susan B. Anthony’s speeches, letters, and quotes, linked by contemporary reports and Lynn Sherr’s insightful biographical commentary. By allowing the legendary suffragist to speak for herself, Sherr brushes the dust off of the Susan B. Anthony icon, introducing a new generation to the brave, brilliant, funny, and, most of all, prescient woman she really was. “Lynn Sherr has done us all a great service by bringing to spectacular light the too long neglected story of one of our greatest patriots—a genuine hero who helped change for the better the lives of a majority of American citizens.”—Ken Burns
Author | : Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 067497414X |
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Sidonie A. Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299220532 |
The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition—some well known, some forgotten over generations—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections—from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches—span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency. "This rich new anthology sets in motion an inter-textual conversation of remarkable vitality that will change the ways we understand gender, class, ethnicity, culture, and nation in nineteenth-century America."—Susanna Egan, author of Mirror-Talk