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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a Reading Room essay

On A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...

Considerations on Representative Government, a Reading Room essay

On Considerations on Representative Government

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...

The Declaration of Sentiments, a Reading Room essay

On The Declaration of Sentiments

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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.

The Speeches of Susan B. Anthony, a Reading Room essay

On The Speeches of Susan B. Anthony

Michael Fowler

Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? Susan B.

On The Speeches of Susan B. Anthony

Michael Fowler

Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? Susan B.

Give Us the Ballot, a Reading Room essay

On Give Us the Ballot

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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.

One Person, No Vote, a Reading Room essay

On One Person, No Vote

Michael Fowler

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

Michael Fowler

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...