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Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580 USA, phone: 425-775-1130. ee excelsior editions THE SUFFRAGENTS THE SUFFRAGENTS How Women Used Men to Get the Vote How Women Used Men to Get the Vote Brooke Kroeger The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote. The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York’s most powerful men formed the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with Brooke Kroeger the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement’s female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s strategic decision to accept their organized SEPTEMBER help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot 372 pages soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such Trim size: 7 x 10 213 b/w photographs luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, $24.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6630-9 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the $80.00 hardcover 978-1-4384-6629-3 League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and NEW YORK executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince HISTORY waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to “…Kroeger gives us the first history support the women’s demand. Together, they swayed the course of history. of the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, the ‘Gentleman’s Auxiliary’ “Brooke Kroeger shows how the suffragist movement, engineered of the women’s movement … they by women from top to bottom, cleverly stitched in the involvement supported gender equality, as we of men from all walks of professional and political life, directed by all should, because it’s quite simply women who used neither gun nor blade to direct the men, but the the right thing to do. With this gift, weapons of intelligence, cleverness, and when necessary, subterfuge.” Kroeger gives us back a bit of — James McBride, author of The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute our history.” to His White Mother and The Good Lord Bird — Michael S. Kimmel, coeditor of Brooke Kroeger is Professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men Journalism Institute. Her books include Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, www.sunypress.edu in the United States, 1776–1990: Feminist and Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst. A Documentary History 1 ee excelsior editions VOTES FOR WOMEN Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial Jennifer A. Lemak and Ashley Hopkins-Benton C elebrating Chronicles the history of the women’s rights and suffrage movements in New York State and examines the important role the state played in the VOTESnew york’S national suffrage movement. S uffrage FOR The work for women’s suffrage started more than seventy years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention WOM centennialEN in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred jennifer A. Lemak and supporters signed the Declaration of Sentiments asserting that “all men and ashley Hopkins-Benton women are created equal.” This convention served as a catalyst for debates and action on both the national and state level, and on November 6, 1917, New York State passed the referendum for women’s suffrage. Its passing in New York signaled that the national passage of suffrage would soon follow. NOVEMBER On August 18, 1920, “Votes for Women” was constitutionally granted. 190 pages Trim size: 8 ½ x 11 Votes for Women, an exhibition catalog, celebrates the pivotal role the 334 color photographs, 94 b/w photographs state played in the struggle for equal rights in the nineteenth century, $29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6730-6 the campaign for New York State suffrage, and the ratification of the NEW YORK Nineteenth Amendment. It highlights the nationally significant role of state WOMEN’S STUDIES leaders in regards to women’s rights and the feminist movement through AMERICAN HISTORY the early twenty-first century and includes focused essays from historians on the various aspects of the suffrage and equal rights movements around “There is something intimate, New York, providing greater detail about local stories with statewide inspiring, and strengthening about significance. seeing words created by and names in the handwriting of women who The exhibition of the same name, on display at the New York State fought the earlier stages of the Museum beginning November 2017, features artifacts from the New York struggle for equality and shared State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as historical institutions and humanity that is so crucial today. private collections across the state. I’m grateful for this exhibit and catalogue that are just the kind of Jennifer A. Lemak is Chief Curator of History at the New York State www.sunypress.edu reminder we need to keep going.” Museum. Ashley Hopkins-Benton is a Senior Historian and Curator at — Gloria Steinem the New York State Museum. 2 ee excelsior editions A SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE New York State in the First World War Aaron Noble, Keith Swaney, and Vicki Weiss Focuses on the posters of World War I as a medium to interpret the tremendous role played by New York State and its citizens in the war effort. A companion catalog to the New York State Museum exhibition of the same name, A Spirit of Sacrifice documents the statewide story of A SPIRIT OF New York in World War I through the collections of the State’s Office SACRIFICE of Cultural Education comprised of the New York State Museum, NEW YORK STATE Library, and Archives. Within these world-class collections are the nearly IN THEFIRST WORLD WAR 3,600 posters of the Benjamin W. Arnold World War I Poster Collection AARON NOBLE, KEITH SWANEY, and VICKI WEISS at the New York State Library. By interweaving the story of New York in the Great War and utilizing the tremendous artifacts within the pictorial history revealed by the posters of the era and primary source DECEMBER documentation, this exhibition catalog serves as both a display of poster 225 pages Trim size: 8 ½ x 11 art and a more comprehensive examination of the primacy of the state’s 447 color photographs, contributions to America’s foray into World War I. Posters and objects 178 b/w photographs from museums, libraries, and historical societies from across New York $29.95/T paperback 978-1-4384-6778-8 State as well as iconic artifacts and images are all included here. NEW YORK Brought together they tell the story of New York State’s essential role HISTORY in the First World War. “A Spirit of Sacrifice, both as an Aaron Noble is a Senior Historian and Curator at the New York State exhibit and as a stand-alone Museum and the coauthor (with Robert Weible and Jennifer A. Lemak) publication, is a wonderful resource of An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War, also published for those studying New York’s history. by SUNY Press. Keith Swaney is an Archives and Records Management The book, with clarity and an array Specialist at the New York State Archives. Vicki Weiss is a librarian in the of superb photos from the exhibit, manuscripts and special collections unit of the New York State Library delves fully into the story of New and the coauthor (with Paul Mercer) of The New York State Capitol and the Yorkers and the Great War and firmly Great Fire of 1911. establishes New York as the engine that drove the US war effort.” — Devin R.