Split over the 15th Amendment and Frederick Douglass

In celebration of Women’s History Month, award-winning historian Ellen DuBois, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life, joins to discuss the life, ideas, and legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the decades-long struggle for women’s suffrage. Thomas Donnelly, lead scholar of the National Constitution Center, moderates. 

This conversation was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on March 23, 2026. 

Resources 

• Ellen Carol DuBois, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life (2026)
• Ellen Carol DuBois, Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote (2020) 
• Ellen Carol DuBois, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (2020) 
• Minor v. Happersett (1875) 
• National Constitution Center, The 19th Amendment

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