Voting and the spirit of American democracy : essays on the history of voting and voting rights in America / edited by Donald W. Rogers in collaboration with Christine Scriabine.
1992
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Title
Voting and the spirit of American democracy : essays on the history of voting and voting rights in America / edited by Donald W. Rogers in collaboration with Christine Scriabine.
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Copyright
©1990
Call Number
JK1846 .V68 1992
ISBN
0252019180 (cl)
0252062477 (pbk.)
0252062477 (pbk.)
Description
ix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24214113
Note
"This collection of essays is the product of a public lecture series held at the University of Hartford during the academic year 1988-89 ..."--vii
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references
Record Appears in
Original Version
Originally published: University of Hartford. 1990
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction--The Right to Vote in American History / Donald W. Rogers
3
1
The American People as Christian White Men of Property: Suffrage and Elections in Colonial and Early National America / Christopher Collier
19
2
Property and Power: Suffrage Reform in the United States, 1787-1860 / Sean Wilentz
31
3
Defining Citizenship: Immigration and the Struggle for Voting Rights in Antebellum America / Paul Kleppner
43
4
From Slavery to Citizenship: Blacks and the Right to Vote / Eric Foner
55
5
Taking Law into Their Own Hands: Voting Women during Reconstruction / Ellen Carol DuBois
67
6
Constitutional Politics and the Feminist Movement / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
83
7
The Constitution and the Civil Rights Movement: The Quest for a More Perfect Union / Linda Faye Williams
97
8
Participation in American Elections / Everett Carll Ladd
109
About the Authors
121