Emphasizing the long struggle that had culminated in this moment, newspapers heralded the so-called Anthony Amendment “as a living monument to its dead framer, Susan B. Anthony.” Women in the United States, it was said, had finally won the vote. Errors abounded.
Author: Lisa Tetrault
Lisa Tetrault is Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History. She specializes in the history of U.S. women and gender, and her research and teaching focus on the history of social movements, particularly feminism, and the politics of memory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of History. Her first book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, won the Organization of American Historians' inaugural Mary Jurich Nickliss women's history book prize. Lisa has received long-term fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Newberry Library and the Smithsonian Institution. The American Historical Association and the Library of Congress awarded her the 2007 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship, then given for the most promising book by a young historian. She has also received funding from the Huntington Library, the Schlesinger Library, the Sophia Smith Collection and many others.