Ellen Carol DuBois is the author of numerous histories of suffrage and women's rights, in the U.S. and internationally. She is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and resides in Los Angeles.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Third EditionPart One. 1815–1861Introduction: Before Seneca FallsDocument 1. Stanton, “Address Delivered at Waterloo New York about Seneca Falls Convention of July 19, 1848,” September 1848Document 2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass, First Meeting, c. 1840; Douglass at Seneca Falls Convention, 1848Document 3. “Immediate Causes of the Demand for Women’s Political Rights” History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1, eds., Stanton, Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1881Document 4. Anthony, Letter on Temperance, August 26, 1852; Stanton, “Appeal for the Maine Law,” January 21, 1853Document 5. Stanton and Anthony, Letters, 1852–1859Document 6. Stanton, “Address to the Legislature of New York on Women’s Rights,” February 14, 1854Document 7. Anthony, Diary of a Lecture Tour with Ernestine Rose to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, 1854Document 8. Stanton, “Speech to the Anniversary of the American ­Anti-Slavery Society,” 1860Part Two. 1863–1878IntroductionDocument 9. The Woman’s National Loyal League, May 1863Document 10. Stanton, “Speech at Lawrence, Kansas,” 1867Document 11. Stanton, “Manhood Suffrage,” The Revolution, December 24, 1868Document 12. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Debate the Fifteenth Amendment at the May 1869 American Equal Rights AssociationDocument 13. Anthony, “Constitutional Argument,” 1873Document 14. Stanton, “Speech to the ­McFarland-Richardson Protest Meeting,” May 1870Document 15. Anthony, “Suffrage and the Working Woman,” 1871Document 16. Stanton, “Home Life,” c. 1875Document 17. Anthony, “Homes of Single Women,” October, 1877Part Three. 1880–1906Introduction: Anthony and the Consolidation of the Women’s MovementDocument 18. Stanton on Fredrick Douglass’ Second Marriage; Douglass Response, 1884Document 19. Anthony, “Organization Among Women,” Columbian Exposition, 1893Document 20. Anthony and Ida B. Wells, Friendship, 1894–1895Document 21. Stanton, “Address to the Founding Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association,” February 1890Document 22. Stanton, “Educated Suffrage Justified”; Harriot Stanton Blatch, “An Open Letter to Mrs. Stanton,” 1894Document 23. Stanton, “The Solitude of Self,” January 18, 1892Document 24. Stanton, “Introduction” and Commentaries on Genesis, Chapters 1–4, The Woman’s Bible; Anthony, Response to the NAWSA Resolution Disavowing The Woman’s Bible; Stanton, Draft of “Criticism of Bigotry of Women”Document 25. Anna Howard Shaw, “The Passing of Aunt Susan”; Helen Gardener, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex