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9 Νοε 2009 · Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) was a lawyer and politician who served as Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war during the Civil War (1861-65). A native of Ohio, Stanton briefly served as ...
20 Μαρ 2024 · Who was the real Edwin Stanton, and what was his role in the true story behind Apple TV+’s new historical drama series Manhunt? We explore the facts behind Stanton’s legacy and more, unpacking the fascinating and complicated truth…
Chief philosopher of the suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman's rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century. Read more about her on womenshistory.org.
Edwin M. Stanton (born December 19, 1814, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.—died December 24, 1869, Washington, D.C.) was the secretary of war who, under Pres. Abraham Lincoln, tirelessly presided over the giant Union military establishment during most of the American Civil War (1861–65).
Stanton also pressed Congress for legislation, ultimately passed in early 1865, to create within the War Department a Freedmen’s Bureau, to look after the black women and children. For Stanton this was a moral issue; the federal government could not just free the slaves and leave them on their own to cope, without resources and without education.
Abstract: Materials relating to Stanton's work for woman suffrage, abolition, temperance, and other social causes. Includes family and professional correspondence, biographical and autobigraphical material, transcripts of her speeches, and photographs. Also includes material by others, including her daughter Margaret Stanton Lawrence, about the ...
Plaskow distinguished Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible as a historical predeces-sor to their own work as feminist theologians. Citing Stanton’s insight that the biblical view of woman had played a key role in women’s oppression, Christ and Plaskow insisted that the time had come to face “squarely” issues Stanton
