Not for Ourselves Alone | Not for Ourselves Alone

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Author: Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: History, biography, and women’s issues
Time of Work: 1815-1920
Setting: Mainly New York and the eastern United States, but also Kansas and the West
Principal Characters: Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Politics, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, New York City, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Political conventions
Locales: New York, Kansas, East (U.S.), West (U.S.)

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is a lavishly illustrated accompaniment to the film by the United States’ premiere documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Geoffrey Ward, author and screenwriter, has worked previously with Burns and the team at Florentine Films on the miniseries The Civil War and Baseball. It has been said that more Americans get their history from Ken Burns than from any other source, and that forty million Americans have watched The Civil War. If that is so, then readers should be glad about the...

Not for Ourselves Alone | Not for Ourselves Alone

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