Ann D. Gordon

Ann Dexter Gordon
Education	Doctorate
Alma mater	Smith College, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation	Historian, author, editor
Employer	Rutgers University
Known for	Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Ann Dexter Gordon is a research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University and editor of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a survey of more than 14,000 papers relating to the pair of 19th century women's rights activists. She is also the editor of the multi-volume work, Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and has authored a number of other books about the history of the women's suffrage movement. She worked with popular historian Ken Burns on his 1999 book and appears in his documentary film about Stanton and Anthony. Since 2006, Gordon has repeatedly weighed in on the Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute stating that "Anthony spent no time on the politics of abortion. It was of no interest to her."

Gordon received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Smith College in Massachusetts, then went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for post graduate work. While there, the editors of The New York Review of Books published a letter she wrote in May 1967 as a sharp response to a Paul Goodman piece sympathetic to draft-card burning by isolated individuals. She earned a Master of Arts degree and a doctorate in American history, writing in 1975 a doctoral dissertation entitled The College of Philadelphia, 1749–1779: Impact of an Institution.

Between 1975 and 1982, Gordon worked on the editorial staffs of two projects, one publishing the papers of Jane Addams, the first American woman Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the other the papers of President Woodrow Wilson.

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