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Ken Burns covers an important story in women's history An article by Jone Johnson Lewis, Women's History Guide |
On November 7-8, PBS will present a documentary on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing. Portrait from the Library of Congress. |
Anthony, who never married, was often freer to travel, giving stump speeches for women's rights. Stanton, married with seven children (only one predeceased her), traveled when she could, but often stayed in New York and wrote speeches and articles, including some of the speeches delivered by Anthony. Anthony was considered to be the strategist, and Stanton the idea-person. Anthony was reserved and focused; Stanton's disposition was more joyful and her interests were quite diverse.
Ken Burns, whose documentaries on Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Civil War, have helped bring history to life, looks at the relationship of these two very different women, whose commitment to women's rights helped lay the groundwork for many changes in society that outlived them.
I look forward to this notable television event, when women's history takes center stage.
Text copyright 1999-2001
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Update, 11/9/99: Impressed by the moving speech by Stanton, "Solitude of Self," I've dug up a copy and put it on this site. Read it here. I've also included an excerpt written by Stanton from The Woman's Bible.
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Links
About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Biography from your About.com Guide to Women's History, plus links to many more Stanton resources on this site and on the web.About Susan B. Anthony
Biography from your About.com Guide to Women's History, plus links to many more Anthony resources on this site and on the web.PBS Online: Not For Ourselves Alone
This site supplements the broadcast of the Ken Burns documentary on Anthony and Stanton with educational material, essays, more.Ken Burns: Uncovering American History
Update 11/15/99: An interview with the filmmaker, reflecting on the November 1999 presentation of the Stanton/Anthony documentary, and on women's history.The Long Road to Suffrage
Article on this site on the many-decades-long struggle in the US for woman suffrage. From your About.com Guide to Women's History.Suffrage Resources
From your About.com Guide to Women's History, an exhaustive list of links to net resources for further reading on the woman suffrage movement."Comments on Genesis" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An excerpt from Stanton's The Woman's Bible in which Stanton comments on the first few chapters of Genesis and the role of women.Ken Burns on Mark Twain
Jim Zwick interviews coproducer Dayton Duncan.
More on this topic:
- About Susan B. Anthony
- About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- "Solitude of Self" (Stanton)
- "Comments on Genesis" (Stanton)
- Woman Suffrage: Resources
- The Long Road to Suffrage
- Voices of 1920 Heard Today
- Considering Woman Suffrage 1905
