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On A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An age was busy declaring the rights of man, and Mary Wollstonecraft asked the obvious next question that almost no one was willing to hear: what about the rights of...
On A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An age was busy declaring the rights of man, and Mary Wollstonecraft asked the obvious next question that almost no one was willing to hear: what about the rights of...
On Considerations on Representative Government
If On Liberty is Mill on the freedom of the individual, Considerations on Representative Government is Mill on the machinery of self-rule, how a free people actually governs itself through...
On Considerations on Representative Government
If On Liberty is Mill on the freedom of the individual, Considerations on Representative Government is Mill on the machinery of self-rule, how a free people actually governs itself through...
On The Declaration of Sentiments
At Seneca Falls in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton did something both simple and audacious: she took the cadence of the Declaration of Independence and turned it to a new purpose.
On The Declaration of Sentiments
At Seneca Falls in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton did something both simple and audacious: she took the cadence of the Declaration of Independence and turned it to a new purpose.
On The Speeches of Susan B. Anthony
Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? Susan B.
On The Speeches of Susan B. Anthony
Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? Susan B.
On Give Us the Ballot
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often treated as an ending, the triumphant close of the civil-rights movement's fight for the ballot.
On Give Us the Ballot
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often treated as an ending, the triumphant close of the civil-rights movement's fight for the ballot.
On One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson set out to document voter suppression as deliberate policy rather than accident, and One Person, No Vote, published in 2018, makes the case with the precision of a...
On One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson set out to document voter suppression as deliberate policy rather than accident, and One Person, No Vote, published in 2018, makes the case with the precision of a...