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This brief history of the woman suffrage movement shows how various suffragists believed the right to vote for women was a human right that all American citizens should possess, while other suffragists viewed their struggle as one for respect and protection from abusive men. These differences are particularly salient in the fraught role of black woman suffragists, who, while dedicated to the cause, were frequently unwelcome in the white-dominated state and national movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Suffrage is the most significant political development within modern Liberal states. Despite this fact, it is curious as to why suffrage movements have so little history. This article focuses on the creation of an edited volume that seeks to address the women's suffrage story across the Americas. While the intellectual process of the project is discussed in some detail, this article is predominantly a reflection on the process of developing a collaborative project and the challenges inherent to a transnational approach. This project reveals both the significance of suffrage and simultaneously the fractured landscape within individual countries, suffrage movements and the body politics as countless individuals and groups were excluded from the concept of 'citizenship.' It has become clear at this juncture that although significant gaps within women's history across the hemisphere remain, attempting to compile a hemispheric story such as this one would have been unthinkable even a few decades ago and this type of project could also have not happened much earlier in the historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses historical details about the granting of the right to vote to Native Americans in Montana. Topics explored include the voter qualifications based on the nineteenth century U.S. Constitution which prevented tribal citizens to vote, the granting of citizenship to tribal nation members, and the impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the taxpayer voting requirement of Montana.

Was there a distinct Mid-Atlantic region for either women or gender relations? An examination of women and politics between the early eighteenth century and the early twentieth century suggests the answer is no, there was not. A regional definition for politically active women encompassed the entire northeast, not just the mid-Atlantic and became the center of the suffrage movement. As late as 1915, however, the anti-women's rights forces were dominant and it was the far west that led in the movement for the vote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integration of women and African Americans into the politically active southern electorate in the 1960s and the 1970s was a turning point in the rise of the "New South" and essential to the establishment of a democratic political process in the region. Whereas there are numerous studies of the reenfranchisement of African Americans in the South in the literature, temporal changes in the gender gap in southern political participation have received less attention. Gender inequality in voting has historically been greatest in the South and was more resistant to change over time. This study is the first to examine the intersection of gender and racial inequality in political participation in the South over a period spanning several decades. Building on previous theories of political participation, including the civic voluntarism model and the strategic mobilization perspective, we develop and test a conceptual model based on the interplay between individual characteristics and the broader institutional context. Using data from the American National Election Studies, we examine racial differences in the gender gap in southern political participation over time using hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical implications for the study of gender and racial inequality in political participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Features the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association and the grassroots strategies of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S. in 1913-1919. Use of popular culture to center a political issue within social values; Development of campaigns that expressed the issue in familiar metaphors; Development of own political style and a unique expression of popular politics.

Discusses a proposed 18th-century amendment to the constitution of the State of New York that set out to limit universal male suffrage in municipal elections. Anti-democratic proposals in the polarized world of urban politics in the Gilded Age of the U.S.; Breadth and depth of upper-class New Yorkers' hostility toward popular suffrage; Ideology and politics of New York's economic elite.

Examines suffrage restriction efforts in Texas between the collapse of Reconstruction in 1873 to 1874 and the passage of a poll tax restriction on the franchise in 1902 and 1903. Reasons why Democratic politicians and editors agitated for suffrage restriction; Black constituents of Republican politicians that were a chief focus of disenfranchisement efforts.

Discusses Walt Whitman's support for Reconstruction and negro suffrage in his essay `Democratic Vistas.' Walt Whitman's comment on the impending election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency; Republicans' support for blacks' enfranchisement; `Democratic Vistas' as Whitman's response to Thomas Carlyle's criticism against democracy.

Focuses on the question of political participation in the wake of white male suffrage raised by the article `Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America,' by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin. Altschuler-Blumin challenge to the reigning paradigm of antebellum politics.

Examines United States House roll call voting patterns on the Nineteenth Amendment in the context of Progressive Era legislation. Association of suffrage to the issue of social justice and civil rights; How to best understand the issues surrounding the Progressice Era legislation.

Presents a history of women and the United States Constitution. Founding; Antebellum era; Reconstruction; Suffrage revolution.

Chronicles the establishment of the Woman's Peace Party (WPP), a suffragist organization for peace in the United States during the interwar years from 1919 to 1941. WPP agenda; States where WPP chapters existed; Organizations created from the mother group; Disagreements among suffragist peace activists.