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Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Ame
Language: en
Pages: 246
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Const
Language: en
Pages: 331
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along wi
Language: en
Pages: 455
Pages: 455
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