New on CorrectionHistory.Org:

"Foursome of Ticket Firsts: Sarah Palin, Geraldine Ferraro . . . Katharine Bement Davis? Mary M. Lilly? -- Intersections of Suffrage & Correction Histories"

The relatively brief "Introduction" page serves as a kind of executive summary explaining the teaser headline. 

The first two names, of course, are "firsts" on the major party national tickets. The third and fourth names come out of Correction History and were 'firsts" on New York State and New York City major party tickets, respectively. 

The latter two ladies also played roles in gaining Woman Suffrage in the U.S.  The five-chapter presentation explores their intersections in Correction and Suffrage Histories.

Glancing through the chapter boxes' section titles, at the bottom of the "Introduction" page, will give the reader a good indication of the ground covered -- more than seven decades from the first (1848) Women's Rights Convention role of Correction Commissioner Davis' grandmother to Blackwell's Island Dept. of Correction Workhouse warden Lilly's role in NYS ratification (1918) of the equal suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The five chapters and a Source Notes (100+ cites) page can be accessed from the Introduction page.

The "Introduction" can be accessed from the new presentation's icon link near the top of the New York Correction History Society home page at 

http:///www.correctionhistory.org

Tom McCarthy
NY Correction History Society (NYCHS)
http://www.correctionhistory.org
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