Led by: Prof. Catherine Clinton (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Course Number: AMHI 633
Semesters: Fall 2020, Spring 2025
Image: Woman suffrage poster featuring an Abraham Lincoln quote, published in Seattle, 1910. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09103)
More than a century ago, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified making it illegal (and unconstitutional) to deny or abridge American citizens’ right to vote based on their gender. This course will concentrate on the civic campaigns and political battles for women to win the franchise while trying to answer the questions of how and why the struggle for women’s suffrage took over a century. We will examine women’s involvement in reform as well as the intersection of gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the years leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
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Catherine Clinton, Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio
Catherine Clinton, a professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is a pioneering historian of American women, the American South, and the Civil War. A founder of the Biography International Organization, she has published biographies of Fanny Kemble, Harriet Tubman, and Mary Todd Lincoln and is the co-author of the Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century and editor of Sisterly Networks: Fifty Years of Southern Women’s Histories. Clinton has taught previously at Harvard University, Wesleyan University, Brown University, and Queens University in Belfast.
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