Officially, American women began an organized fight for the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention convened by abolitionists Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. While the movement experienced ebbs and flows, fractious in-fighting, and splintered competing organizations,…
This exhibit is a project by students in the Spring 2018 course Troubling Memory: Rhetoric and Public Memory[ies]. Throughout the semester, we followed contemporary news about the development and revision of public memory spaces. From public discussion of removing Confederate memorials and…