How the Vote Was Won Tamara Cofman Wittes Sallanches

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--Paul HirstBirkbeck College

The choice of gun can be as personal as the car one drives or the person one marries

It is likely to be the most distinctive novel you read this year

an English doughboy in the trenches

How the Vote Was Won Tamara Cofman Wittes SallanchesUncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African American men were systematically