Law and Altar: The Timely and Timeless Struggle of Matilda Joslyn Gage

Wagner discusses how the threat to religious freedom created a rift between the most prominent figures in the women's suffrage movement of the late 19th century, and how examining that obscured rupture reveals an inconvenient truth about the historical circumstances of women's suffrage in the US. She also tells the story of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the political catastrophe she attempted to prevent and the morally compromised future resulting from society's failure to heed her persistent warning that the ends do not always justify the means.