Historian Ann D. Gordon discusses the history and legacy of the years 1776 to 1807, when all “inhabitants” with sufficient money could vote in New Jersey regardless of citizenship, sex or race.
From 1776 to 1807, New Jersey allowed “inhabitants” with sufficient money to vote, regardless of citizenship, sex, or race. This virtual talk - held on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 205th birthday - will examine how historical memory of those years, when women in the state could vote, was transmitted across generations, embraced by a women’s rights movement, and incorporated into a political culture shared by the state’s suffragists.
This event will be presented using Zoom. Registration is required.
Ann D. Gordon is research professor emerita of history, retired from Rutgers University. A graduate of Smith College, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Early American history. From 1982 until her retirement, she edited the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, published first as a 45-reel microfilm edition; she completed a six-volume Selected Papers from the collection in 2013. She has written numerous articles in women’s history and biography, and edited a collection of essays by scholars of black history, African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (1997). Gordon served on a panel of historians advising the National Archives Museum on its exhibition, Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote.
This program is presented in partnership with the Historical Society of Princeton.
