Feb. 25, 2009 to syllabus Paper Topic Instructions and Options

History 350: American Radicalism

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Notes: 1. After today's class, I'll stay to answer questions you may have about the paper assignment that's due March 4.
            2. Possible essay questions and instructions for the final exam will be ready and online by Monday, March 9.

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I. Women's Rights and African Americans' Rights

    A. 14th and 15th Amendments: "The Negro's Hour"? (14th Amendment) (15th)

    B. Kansas campaigns: 1867 (brief bio of George Francis Train)

II. Women Suffrage and Women's Equality
(Library of Congress Women's Suffrage Images)
(website for HBO film, "Iron Jawed Angels")

A. Suffrage as a Right Susan B. Anthony put on trial for voting!

B. Suffrage as Social Policy (biography of Frances Willard, temperance advocate and feminist)

C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a Changing Women's Movement
        1. The Solitude of Self    (link to her 1892 speech)
        2. The Woman's Bible

    D. Was the struggle for women's suffrage a mistake?

Cady Stanton and Anthony with George Washington in Heaven

Anti - Suffrage Cartoon

Voting as Consumerism/Consumerism as Voting