Ellen Carol DuBois

San Francisco - Bookshop West Portal: Ellen Carol DuBois discusses her new biography
2026-03-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Ellen Carol DuBois discusses her new biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Bookshop West Portal has long been a fan of Ellen Carol DuBois and her work on the US women’s suffrage movement. We are delighted to celebrate the release of her new biography on Elizabeth Cady Stanton with her. Don’t miss out on hearing from a leading historian and professor at UCLA.
Calling all suffragettes, this will be your jam!

ABOUT THE BOOK:
The definitive biography of American suffragist and women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to her death in 1902, a full fifth of America’s history. Yet her legacy has been marked by controversy. In this landmark biography, eminent historian Ellen Carol DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible.
Born in 1815 into a family deeply marked by the tumult of the American Revolution and surging evangelicalism, Stanton was captivated by Enlightenment ideas about individual freedom and transformed by early experiences in what she called “the school of antislavery.” Though most remembered for her fight for the vote, she was also an early crusader for women’s reproductive autonomy and reforming the institution of marriage, and against Christianity’s subordination of women. Her rifts with Black reformers and embrace of nativist ideas tarnished her reputation, but her words still have the ability to move and agitate people today.
Building upon exhaustive archival research and a deep engagement with Stanton’s copious writings, Elizabeth Cady Stanton brilliantly captures a crucial reformer in all of her intelligence, moral ambiguity, and power.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the US woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Suffrage, & the Legacy of the 19th Amendment
2026-03-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Suffrage, and the Legacy of the 19th Amendment

Date
Monday, March 23
Time
10:00 am – 11:00 am (PST)
price
Free, Online

To register, please click here.In celebration of Women’s History Month, constitutional scholar Reva Siegel joins award-winning historian Ellen DuBois, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life, to discuss the life, ideas, and legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the decades-long struggle for women’s suffrage. Thomas Donnelly, lead scholar of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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Mystic Noank Library: Ellen Carol DuBois Author Talk and Signing
2026-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Mystic Noank Library: Ellen Carol DuBois (Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life) Author Talk and Signing

Bank Square Books and the Mystic and Noank Library present an author talk and signing with Ellen Carol DuBois for her book Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life. Ellen will be in conversation with Lisa Wilson.

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About the Book
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to her death in 1902, a full fifth of America’s history. Yet her legacy has been marked by controversy. In this landmark biography, eminent historian Ellen Carol DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible.
Born in 1815 into a family deeply marked by the tumult of the American Revolution and surging evangelicalism, Stanton was captivated by Enlightenment ideas about individual freedom and transformed by early experiences in what she called “the school of antislavery.” Though most remembered for her fight for the vote, she was also an early crusader for women’s reproductive autonomy and reforming the institution of marriage, and against Christianity’s subordination of women. Her rifts with Black reformers and embrace of nativist ideas tarnished her reputation, but her words still have the ability to move and agitate people today.
Building upon exhaustive archival research and a deep engagement with Stanton’s copious writings, Elizabeth Cady Stanton brilliantly captures a crucial reformer in all of her intelligence, moral ambiguity, and power.
About the Author
Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the US woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.
About Lisa Wilson
Lisa Wilson focuses her present research on North America and the Caribbean. She has recently begun a project comparing the experiences of seventeenth-century women in Barbados, Bermuda, Virginia and New England. She has published on topics such as widowhood, manhood, and stepfamilies in Early America.

Boston, MA – Harvard Book Store / In conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust
2026-03-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Ellen Carol DuBois at Harvard Book Store

presenting
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life
in conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust

Ellen Carol DuBois (Photo Credit Scarlett Freund)
Drew Gilpin Faust

Date

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 – 7:00pm

Location

Harvard Book Store

1256 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Ticket

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes Ellen Carol DuBois—distinguished professor of history at UCLA and preeminent historian of women’s suffrage—for a discussion of her new book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life. She will be joined in conversation by Drew Gilpin Faust—award-winning American historian and former President of Harvard.
About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The definitive biography of American suffragist and women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to her death in 1902, a full fifth of America’s history. Yet her legacy has been marked by controversy. In this landmark biography, eminent historian Ellen Carol DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible.
Born in 1815 into a family deeply marked by the tumult of the American Revolution and surging evangelicalism, Stanton was captivated by Enlightenment ideas about individual freedom and transformed by early experiences in what she called “the school of antislavery.” Though most remembered for her fight for the vote, she was also an early crusader for women’s reproductive autonomy and reforming the institution of marriage, and against Christianity’s subordination of women. Her rifts with Black reformers and embrace of nativist ideas tarnished her reputation, but her words still have the ability to move and agitate people today.
Building upon exhaustive archival research and a deep engagement with Stanton’s copious writings, Elizabeth Cady Stanton brilliantly captures a crucial reformer in all of her intelligence, moral ambiguity, and power.
Praise for Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton still has much to teach us. The invented prisons of race, sex, and class are still with us, but learning about successful past struggles against them can help to equalize the future.” —Gloria Steinem
“A major figure deserves a matching biographer, and here, in this book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton has found hers. Out of a mind and spirit rich in knowledge and devotion, Ellen Dubois has fashioned a distinguished biography that secures Stanton’s unique place, once and for all, in the American movement for women’s rights. A pleasure to read.” —Vivian Gornick
“DuBois’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a must-read biography! This lavish accounting and analysis of one of the most important women in U.S. history and women’s history by one of the nation’s most brilliant historians of women opens up a world of domesticity and activism, as well as personal, social, and national evolution that is a layered revelation to anyone interested in U.S. history. DuBois is a seasoned researcher and excellent writer who brings new insight into the personal life, political growth, and social world of this essential pioneer in women’s rights across many decades of America’s evolution as a nation of many peoples, voices, and struggles.” —Brenda E. Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
“At once critical and empathetic, Ellen Dubois’s biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton revives a leading American intellectual and feminist whose devotion to women’s rights, liberal individualism, and natural law increasingly came into conflict with beliefs in racial and human equality. By exploring Stanton’s intellectual evolution, Dubois reveals much about both the nineteenth-century and modern United States.” —Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands
Bios
Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the US woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.
Drew Gilpin Faust grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania. She served on the faculties of Penn and Harvard for nearly a half century and was President of Harvard from 2007 to 2018. She is author of seven books, including National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Her most recent book is a memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury (2023). In 2018 Faust was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
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Seneca Falls, NY – Women’s Rights National Historical Park
2026-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Women’s History Weekend will feature a special guest speaker and living history programs; ranger talks in the Wesleyan Chapel; fun make-and-take activities; and more to honor the legacies of the women organizers of the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
On Saturday, there will be a special guest presentation and book singing with Dr. Ellen Carol DuBois on “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life.”

Rochester, NY – National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 6:30 PM
2026-03-05 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
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Join us on Thursday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion and book signing with historian Ellen Carol DuBois celebrating her latest book, a comprehensive, definitive biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life.
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New York Public Library / In conversation with Julie Suk, 7 PM ET
2026-03-03 19:00 - 20:00 (Asia/Karachi) | The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York 10018, NY, NY, 10018, United States
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Fight for Women’s Rights

Tue, Mar 3rd, 20267:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

Celeste Auditorium (Lower Level), The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018

Event Details

A new biography of the feminist pioneer, written by Ellen Carol DuBois, explores Stanton’s legacy.

In Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life, historian Ellen Carol DuBois presents a definitive portrait of one of the most influential figures in the American struggles for women’s suffrage and rights. From the 1840s until her death in 1902, Stanton fought for women’s emancipation, advocating on issues that went far beyond the vote. Drawing on archival research and Stanton’s writings, DuBois traces her advocacy for reproductive rights, marriage reform, and challenges to religious hierarchies, while also examining Stanton’s conflicts with Black reformers and her support of nativist ideas—highlighting the contradictions that continue to complicate her legacy.
DuBois, in conversation with legal scholar Julie Suk, discusses the reformer whose words still provoke—and whose struggles helped shape contemporary feminism. Click here to RSVP: https://www.showclix.com/tickets/ellen-carol-dubois/tag/guest
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the U.S. woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage; and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.
Julie Chi-hye Suk is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform, feminist constitutional movements, and the law, policy, and institutions that shape equality and democracy in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author of three books, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020); After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023); and The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (forthcoming, Fall 2026).

Book Signing Santa Monica, CA: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life" - Diesel
2026-03-01 15:00 - 2026-03-13 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Diesel Bookstore, 225 26th St, Santa Monica, CA, 90402, United States
Ellen Carol Dubois discusses and signs “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life”

Join us on Sunday March 1st at 3:00 pm as we welcome Ellen Carol DuBois to the store to discuss and sign Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life. Joining her in conversation will be Brenda E. Stevenson.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood.
Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat.
Ellen Carol DuBois Event Reservation
The definitive biography of American suffragist and women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a singular leader, thinker, and organizer whose fight for women’s emancipation stretched from the 1840s to her death in 1902, a full fifth of America’s history. Yet her legacy has been marked by controversy. In this landmark biography, eminent historian Ellen Carol DuBois paints a fresh portrait of this complex crusader whose tireless work made contemporary feminism possible.
Born in 1815 into a family deeply marked by the tumult of the American Revolution and surging evangelicalism, Stanton was captivated by Enlightenment ideas about individual freedom and transformed by early experiences in what she called “the school of antislavery.” Though most remembered for her fight for the vote, she was also an early crusader for women’s reproductive autonomy and reforming the institution of marriage, and against Christianity’s subordination of women. Her rifts with Black reformers and embrace of nativist ideas tarnished her reputation, but her words still have the ability to move and agitate people today.
Building upon exhaustive archival research and a deep engagement with Stanton’s copious writings, Elizabeth Cady Stanton brilliantly captures a crucial reformer in all of her intelligence, moral ambiguity, and power.
Ellen Carol DuBois is distinguished professor of history at UCLA. Her pioneering works on the US woman suffrage movement include Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, and Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. She lives in Los Angeles.
Brenda E. Stevenson is an internationally recognized scholar of race, slavery, gender, family and racial conflict. Her specific intellectual interests center on the comparative, historical experiences of women, family, and community across racial and ethnic lines. Race and gender—the ways in which these two variables interact, intersect, collide with, emphasize, run parallel to and sometimes isolate one another—are at the center of her work. Her book length publications include: The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke (Oxford 1988); Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (Oxford 1996); The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots(Oxford 2013); and, What is Slavery? (Polity 2015).
Professor Stevenson’s research has garnered numerous prizes including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book in race relations (U.S.) for The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, the Ida B. Wells Barnett Award for Bravery in Journalism, and the Gustavus Meyer Outstanding Book Prize for Life in Black and White. Her research has been supported by, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She also is the recipient of the 2014 UCLA Gold Shield Award for outstanding scholarship, teaching and service and the John Blassingame Award for Mentorship and Scholarship from the Southern Historical Society. Professor Stevenson is the past Chair of the Departments of History and the Interdepartmental Program in African American Studies at UCLA. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for both the Organization of American Historians and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Her interviews and commentaries can often be heard on NPR affiliates and other media outlets.
