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On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson s inauguration, leaders of the Americansuffrage movement organized an enormous march through the capital that served as an importantsalvo on the long road to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Coinciding with thewidespread rise of photography in daily newspapers and significant shifts in journalism, theparade energized a movement that had been in the doldrums for nearly two decades. In "Seeing""Suffrage," James G. Stovall combines a detailed account of the parade with more than 130photographs to provide a stunning visual chronicle of one...

All Alabama elections are colourful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was undergoing a tectonic political shift as white voters in...