The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers project was an academic undertaking to collect and document all available materials written by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 ...
and
Susan B. Anthony, two early leaders of the women's rights movement. The project began in 1982. In 1991, after nine years of research, the project published the materials it had collected as a 45-reel microfilm edition under the editorship of Patricia G. Holland and
Ann D. Gordon
Ann Dexter Gordon (1944 – March 19, 2025) was an American research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University and editor of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a survey of more than 14,000 papers relat ...
. It included 14,000 documents gathered from 202 libraries and government offices, 671 different newspapers and other periodicals, and three dozen private collections.
The microfilm edition more than doubled the sources that previously had been available.
In 1992 the project moved to
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
to begin the work of producing ''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony'', which was published in six volumes. Gordon, the project director, completed the work with the help other professional historians and also graduate assistants and students. With Gordon as editor, the first volume was published in 1997 and the last in 2013. The project was inactivated after the last volume was published.
Publications
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (1997).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840 to 1866'' Vol. 1 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2000).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873'' Vol. 2 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2003).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880'' Vol. 3 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2006).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880–1887'' Vol. 4 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2009).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895'' Vol. 5 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
* Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2013).
''The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906'' Vol. 6 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. .
References
External links
including the ''Microfilm Edition'' along with its ''Guide and Index'', and the six volumes of the ''Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony''.
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