The second edition includes four new chapters, additional historic photos, and appendices, in addition to the material that was in the first edition of One Woman, One Vote. This is the companion book to the PBS American Experience documentary by the same name. (The updated video, produced by the Educational Film Center, includes an intro by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.) The first edition, published in 1995, continues to be the most comprehensive collection of writings on the woman suffrage movement in the U.S. and is used in university, college, and advanced high school classes.

There are twenty-three chapters in the new edition, focusing on different aspects of the woman's suffrage movement, emphasizing the racism, sexism, and political struggle for the vote and for equality.

Through their engaging essays, scholars in the fields of History, American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, help readers "rediscover" the suffrage movement in all its diversity and complexity, offering intriguing and sometimes contradictory interpretations.

New material in the Second Edition includes an in-depth piece on the international history of suffrage and its influences on the U.S. fight for woman suffrage. Also, how women worldwide collaborated across national borders-many of them women of color fighting equality and for the right to vote.

New chapter on the Southern states' resistance to the woman's vote, "Bringing in the South: Southern Ladies, White Supremacy, and State's Rights in the Fight for Woman Suffrage." Spruill describes the long and often frustrating campaign to build support for woman suffrage in a decidedly inhospitable climate-an effort shaped by widespread ideas about white supremacy and state's rights among white Southerners.

Above all, the essays in this book illustrate that the vote was not "given" to women when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920: generations of suffragists labored long and hard to win the right to vote in the United States.