Harriot stanton blatch biography of abraham lincoln

August 18, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Amendment. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was integral to the effort to get New York state to allow women full voting rights in 1917, and her work helped to regain momentum for the successful ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.Today’s post is from Jen Johnson, curator at the National Archives at Kansas City.

“Women can save civilization only by the broadest cooperative action, by taking part in greater numbers in government, by daring to think, by daring to be themselves. The world is calling for women of vision and courage. May the women of the world hear the call and go forward!”

—Harriot Stanton Blatch, Challenging Years, 1940

A second-generation suffragist and reformer, Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was destined for the woman suffrage movement. She was born in 1856 in Seneca Falls, New York, to Henry Brewster Stanton, an abolitionist, and Elizabeth

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Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton

First and foremost, Marvel’s study rests on prodigious research, and his biography of Edwin M. Stanton will be the scholarly standard on this important historical figure for years to come. As Marvel points out, despite Stanton’s outsized historical importance, the secretary of war under President Lincoln has not received as much scholarly attention as one would expect, and Harold Hyman’s two-generations-old biography (begun by noted Lincoln biographer Benjamin P. Thomas) only continues to show its age.¹ Not only does Marvel update our understanding of Stanton’s life in the context of decades of scholarship that Hyman and Thomas could not have benefited from, but he also draws from a far more thorough base of research.

Marvel portrays Stanton as a duplicitous and unprincipled autocrat, concerned primarily with the acquisition of political power and economic security for himself and his family. Stanton’s difficult personality is

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Woman Suffrage in the Mid-Atlantic

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Butler, Amy E. Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921–1929. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Dubois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Dudden, Faye E. Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Free, Laura E. “‘To Bury the Black Man and the Woman in the Citizen’: The American lika Rights Association and the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867.” In Ridarsky and Huth, Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights, 59–85.

———. Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Fry, Amelia R. Mabel Vernon: Speaker for Suffrage and Petitioner for Peace. Berkeley: University of California, Regional Oral His