Introduction : the right to vote in American history / Donald W. Rogers -- The American people as Christian white men of property : suffrage and elections in colonial and early national America / Christopher Collier -- Property and power : suffrage reform in the United States, 1787-1860 / Sean Wilentz -- Defining citizenship : immigration and the struggle for voting rights in antebellum America / Paul Kleppner -- From slavery to citizenship : blacks and the right to vote / Eric Foner -- Taking law into their own hands : voting women during reconstruction / Ellen Carol DuBois -- Constitutional politics and the feminist movement / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein -- The constitution and the civil rights movement : the quest for a more perfect union / Linda Faye Williams -- Participation in American elections / Everett Carll Ladd.