...Barbara J. Steinson Book Reviews 373 Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870 1920. By Sara Egge. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018. 242 pp. $85.00, paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-557-6. Sara Egge s examination of women s activism in Clay County, Iowa, Lyon County, Minnesota...

... a strategic move for political activists like woman suffragists. In the American Midwest, vast spaces and difficult travel conditions hindered frequent face-to-face conversations, and advocates for woman suffrage recognized the power of paper as an inexpensive means to reach isolated rural voters. An analysis...

...Nicholas J. P. Williams 374 Agricultural History With campaigns for state suffrage amendments in 1890 and 1898, the example of South Dakota is particularly revealing. Blaming the 1890 loss on immigrants and temperance, NAWSA leaders in particular Susan B. Anthony cut off support for the South...

... project? I am 99 percent done with my dissertation! The project explores the woman suffrage movement in the Midwest. I ground my study in the local contexts of three counties in three different states Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota. Many historians of woman suffrage have ignored the Midwest because...

... Society , 2005 ), 27 – 63 ; E. Claire Jerry , “Clara Bewick Colby and the Woman's Tribune , 1883-1909: The Free Lance Editor as Movement Leader,” in A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910 , ed. Martha M. Solomon ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1991 ), 110...

... and the American Civil War ends its narrative, a critical mass of the white American electorate had endorsed the abolition of slavery, approved of the incorporation of African Americans into the republic as citizens, and signed off on the constitutional right of Black men to suffrage. We all know how the retreat...

... Illinois University ReadingSouthernPovertybetweenthWe ars, 1918-1939.Edited byRich ardGodden andMartin CrawfordA. thens:UniversityofGeorgia Press, 2006. 264 pp., $39.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-8203-2708-2. During urban America's "roaring '20s," rural America slid into a depres sion.White men granted suffrage...

..., Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). Michael Lewis Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United...

..., progressive rural reform, and woman s suffrage) while one addresses the period between the 1870s and the 1930s (municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio), and three examine 1960s reform efforts (religion and race, the relationship between African-American and Mexican-American civil rights advocates...

... not formally endorse the women's suffrage movement, Populists at the grassroots level questioned the narrow options of a patriarchal society. Populists also saw the Southern culture of manliness that required the subjection of women as a flawed definition of an honorable man. Instead, Populists defined manly...

... within a capitalistic system shaped and defined such concepts as natural rights and civil rights. Of the book s eight essays, four focus upon Texas before 1920 (African-American conventions, railway workers, progressive rural reform, and woman s suffrage) while one addresses the period between the 1870s...

... to universal male suffrage for French citizens under the Third Republic (1871 1940). Foresters in France increasingly compromised with the diminishing number of pastoralists there, who became figments of popular nostalgia and national lore, at the same time that Algerian pastoralists faced violent repression...

... the universal male suffrage established by the Constitution of 1853. The federalism enshrined by both the Constitution of 1858 and the Constitution of Rionegro of 1863 emphasized state sovereignty as the ideal liberalism, a shift that reinforced elite control over society. The final chapter charts these themes...

... examination of how, when class tensions reached an untenable high after the Civil War of 1854, both Liberals and Conservatives backed away from supporting the universal male suffrage established by the Constitution of 1853. The federalism enshrined by both the Constitution of 1858 and the Constitution...

... history, his journal included few observations regarding suffrage, elections, or the rise of abolitionism. He apparently found public service intrusive. His whole world centered on the farm and his religious faith. Even the sectional crisis and secession largely pass unremarked upon. Nevertheless Bushman...

...Matthew Noellert 498 Agricultural History growing chasm in elite understandings of pastoralism in Provence and Algeria following the move to universal male suffrage for French citizens under the Third Republic (1871 1940). Foresters in France increasingly compromised with the diminishing number...

...," rural America slid into a depres sion.White men granted suffrage towhite women, while scientific racism and eugenics hardened lines of race and class. In the US South, white supremacy and class divisions congealed as increasing numbers of white smallholders fell into the rural laboring class...

..., the invisible line between the states-one still northern and the other southern in their orientation - continued to demarcate clear dif ferences in such things as political party affiliation, prohibition, woman suffrage, and issue of black and white, even though "shared notions of white supremacy" were...

... scarcity of land. In this context, strong agrarian movements developed across the region from the beginning of the twentieth century. Their influence particularly grew after World War I, when universal or full male suffrage was introduced in most of the newly IVAN HRSTI , PhD, is a research associate...

... , The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890–1920 ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1992 ), 4 ; Report , 117 . 29. Report , 106 . 30. Ibid., 79 – 81 . 31. “Our National Farm Home Inquiry,” Good Housekeeping 48 ( Feb. 1909 ): 219 ; Bowers...