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History Professor Earns $1,000 FellowshipBy Summer A. Evans - June 28, 2005 - 8:03 amEmail this article | Printer friendly page | Media Inquiries
Westcott will spend one week at the institute where he will continue his research on "Territorial Holy War: The Moneka Women's Rights Movement of the Mid-Nineteenth Century." He states in his application that history has failed to document the contributions and leadership to the crusades of abolitionism, territorial suffrage and racial free-statism in the Kansas Territory. "The current historiography of antebellum gender contributions focuses primarily on eastern participants, with rare mention of western advocates," said Westcott. Westcott hopes that his research will further fashion an appreciation and understanding that the antebellum movement of suffrage and abolitionism were national in origin and sustainable on the frontiers of America. |
