American Women Win the Vote

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This course examines the woman suffrage movement from the demand for enfranchisement in the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. We will study primary and secondary sources focusing on arguments for and against women\2019s enfranchisement, suffragists\2019 political strategies, and the relationship of the women\2019s rights movement to other social and political movements. Course Attributes: Historical Perspectives, Peace & Justice Studies Minor College of Arts & Sciences History