Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and the author of Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France. She lives in Hyattsville, Maryland. Twitter @KCLemay
"Winner, Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Congress of
Scholars"
"Richly illustrated. . . . The catalog, to debut with the
exhibition, is the first scholarly examination of the entire
American women’s suffrage history in one book."
*ARTFIX daily*
"The show’s ample 289-page catalog provides rigorously-researched
evidence that the history we’ve relied on for decades, delivered in
grade school civics classes was in part myth, and, a literal
white-washing of some of the movement’s key players."---Alicia
Ault, Smithsonianmag.com
"[An] excellent and extensive catalogue."---Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post
"Votes for Women! A Portrait of Persistence . . . [is an] important
contribution to the history of women’s rights. . . . [The] visuals
include stunning portraits of movement leaders, action shots of
major suffrage milestones such as the March suffrage procession in
DC, and even examples of suffragists’ rich material culture, such
as sashes and dinnerware. . . . By centering a diverse array of
women, including images and material culture, and presenting
classic and cutting-edge scholarship, Votes for Women provides one
of the most valuable contributions to the centennial outpouring of
new work on the suffrage movement."---Kimberly A. Hamlin, Journal
of American Studies
"Votes for Women! [is] a handsomely illustrated volume edited by
Kate Clarke Lemay. The book straddles popular and scholarly history
while simultaneously providing a complex, rather than merely
celebratory, view of the suffrage movement and its legacies. [The
book] is a hybrid creature—part scholarly essays written to be
accessible to a general audience, part historical narrative, and
part gorgeous and ambitious exhibition catalog with the easy visual
appeal of a coffee-table book."---Victoria Olwell, Journal of
American History
"Votes for Women is a compelling visual biography of the suffrage
movement through artifacts and rare photographs. Tracing the
movement through time, Clarke Lemay brings readers on a cinematic
journey through the many chapters of the movement, marked by its
various alliances with abolitionists, Native American land-rights
activists, and even advocates for the temperance movement. Perhaps
most importantly, Votes for Women removes suffragists like Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper, Zitkala-Sa, Sarah Parker Remond and Fannie
Lou Hamer from the cold pages of archives, underscoring to readers
that women activists have always come from diverse
backgrounds."---Emma Levy, Seattle Times
"Full of intriguing references to how much more there is to know. .
. . [A] thoughtful, appealingly-designed book."---Eve M. Kahn,
Nineteenth Century
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