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Ua77/4 Uniting The Spirit, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Alumni Relations
Ua77/4 Uniting The Spirit, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Alumni Relations
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by WKU Society of African American Alumni and Minority Student Support Services to promote homecoming events.
Bigger Than A Ballot Box, Joanne Goodwin
Bigger Than A Ballot Box, Joanne Goodwin
History Faculty Research
The relationship between the histories of woman suffrage and U.S. politics suffered from a reluctance on the part of both fields to include the other until recently. Political historians refrained from in-depth discussions of the eighty-year movement to gain the vote for women until the new political history expanded the definition of political actors and activities. Women's historians (with a few notable exceptions) discussed the suffrage movement as a type of voluntarist reform activity, rather than contextualizing it within political institutions and systems. Ellen Carol DuBois's study of suffrage through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments departed significantly …