"I would encourage everyone interested in nineteenth-century politics to buy these books. The materials selected for inclusion-letters, diary entries, speeches, articles-provide a window on the debates that were crucial to the formation of American political culture before, during, and after the Civil War. Presented chronologically, introduced with editorial headings, and superbly annotated, each document stands on its own, and together they tell many stories."-Melanie S. Gustafson, New York History

"This is one of the great historical projects of our generation. Long after current narratives, biographies, and monographs have faded into the realm of the 'old-fashioned,' the forthright voices of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will still ring clear. Ann Gordon and the insightful editors guide us through the politics and society in which these remarkable leaders flourished. These volumes are a compelling read, and indispensable to an understanding of modern democracy."-Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

"The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is an extraordinary scholarly achievement. It has restored these unparalleled historical figures to their deserved national reputations. Now, all can appreciate the richness and profundity of their historical contributions."-Ellen Carol DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles

"The Stanton-Anthony Papers project has my unbounded admiration. The scholarship is remarkable, the documents a treasure, and the history altogether magnificent."-Vivian Gornick

National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 is the third of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause of woman suffrage.

The third volume of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opens while woman suffragists await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases testing whether the Constitution recognized women as voters within the terms of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. At its close they are pursuing their own amendment to the Constitution and pressing the presidential candidates of 1880 to speak in its favor. Through their letters, speeches, articles, and diaries, the volume recounts the national careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights, their protests during the Centennial Year of 1876, and the launch that same year of their campaign for a Sixteenth Amendment.

Ann D. Gordon is a research professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University. She is the editor of this six-volume series.