Sally Roesch Wagner
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is the founder and executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York. One of the first women to receive a doctorate in the US for work in women’s studies, she is a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs. An author and lecturer, Dr. Wagner appeared in the Ken Burn’s PBS documentary “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide. Sally Roesch Wagner joins Deborah Hughes in a special program at the Rosendale...
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Susan B. Anthony: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, women’s rights campaigner. MORE.
Read MoreVotes for Women 2020 theatrical performance
BRIMSTONE, BOOZE AND THE BALLOT Our provocative theatrical program in March 2013 explored why one suffrage leader was written out of history. The buzz associated with the “Brimstone, Booze, and the Ballot” program: Preview of the program. New York History overview. New Paltz blog highlights. Women voters and lovers of American history discovered the inside story of two of the suffrage movement’s founders during Women’s History Month when the background struggle between suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage was revealed on stage at the Rosendale...
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Read MoreMatilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a progressive visionary of women’s rights, human liberation, and an often unacknowledged leader who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote the arguments, inspired the passions, and organized the political action of the 19th century woman suffrage movement in the United States. MORE. The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Matilda Joslyn Gage’s work and its power to drive contemporary social change. Visit the Gage home and foundation in Fayetteville, New...
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