This conversation was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on March 23, 2026.

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This episode was produced and mixed by Bill Pollock. With production support from Charles Sahm. Research was provided by Anna Salvatore, Trey Sullivan, and Tristan Worsham.

Participants

Ellen Carol DuBois, distinguished professor of history at UCLA, is the author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life. Her other pioneering works on the woman suffrage movement in the United States 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.

Thomas Donnelly is lead scholar at the National Constitution Center. Prior to joining the Center in 2016, he served as counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and as a law clerk for Judge Thomas Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.