Join us Monday, June 10 at 1 pm for our final Monday Lecture Series presentation of the 2023-2024 season! This month’s lecture, “Enforcing Gender at the Polls: Transing Voters and Women’s Suffrage before the American Civil War,” is presented by Andrew Wender Cohen, Professor of History at Syracuse University and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, and Carol Faulkner, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Before Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872, individuals deemed women by society dressed in men’s clothes and went to the polls, defying the gender divide that characterized the nineteenth-century American electoral system. Based on more than seventy newspaper articles, and twenty-eight distinct cases, this presentation explores the significance of these illicit voters for American democracy and debates over women’s suffrage in the decades before the Civil War.
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