The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV

This is not history written from a distance. This is the movement telling its own story, in its own words, as it happened. Volume IV of The History of Woman Suffrage captures the critical decades of 1883 to 1900, when American women pushed harder than ever against the boundaries of a democracy that excluded them. Here are the speeches, the petitions, the convention proceedings, and the private letters of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and dozens of others who refused to accept that citizenship meant anything less than full participation. The volume documents the strategic pivot after setbacks, the state-by-state campaigns, the debates over strategy that would shape the movement for decades, and the relentless work of keeping the cause alive when progress seemed impossibly slow. It is primary source material at its most vital: messy, passionate, strategic, and human. Anyone who wants to understand where the vote came from must start here, with the women who fought for it when winning seemed impossible.