February 18, 2009   to syllabus Paper Topic Instructions and Options

New: questions on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's rights

History 350: American Radicalism

I. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    A. Privilege and Limitations

    B. Marriage, Family and Activism
1. Trouble with Henry?
2. Private and Public, Personal and Political

II. Women's Rights, Women's Roles and the Anti-Slavery Movement

    A. William Lloyd Garrison and the Rise of Immediatist Abolitionism

    B. Sarah and Angelina Grimké
        1. Privilege and Conversion
        2. Angelina Grimké and Anti-Slavery Lecturing
Catharine Beecher opposes abolitionist women    Angelina Grimké replies to Beecher

    C. Women's Roles, Politics and a Divided Abolitionism Movement

III. Cady Stanton and the Seneca Falls Convention 1848 (PBS website on Stanton and Susan B. Anthony)
(Stanton-Anthony Papers Online) (Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions)

IV. Women's Rights and African Americans' Rights

  Elizabeth Cady Family Home, Upstate New York                    Cady Stanton with Daughter, 1856

Cady Stanton in her Later Years                                        Susan B. Anthony