The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI

This final volume closes one of the most ambitious historical projects in American letters: a six-volume, 5700-page chronicle of the seven-decade struggle for women's right to vote. Ida Husted Harper completed this monument to the suffrage movement that Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage began, capturing the movement from its contentious origins through the triumphant ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Volume VI documents the final push for victory: the strategic campaigns, the bitter factional disputes, the speeches that roused crowds, and the letters written from prison. Harper preserves the movement in its own words, revealing the human cost of a public crusade fought across decades. This is not merely an archive but a testament to what organized determination can achieve against formidable opposition. For historians, researchers, and anyone curious about how rights are won, this volume offers the raw material of American democracy in progress.