Susan B. Anthony: Birthday Toast and Cartoon Roast? By Barbara Orbach Natanson Susan B. Anthony. Photo by C. M. Bell, 1891 March 2. http://bit.ly/2tpnjsm No one relishes being made fun of, especially when celebrating a birthday. But Susan B. Anthony, who was born February 15, 1820, will perhaps not turn over in her grave if we acknowledge just how prominently she appeared in cartoons during the years she actively campaigned for and wrote about the history of women's suffrage. Historian Lisa Tetrault, in The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), argues that Susan B. Anthony, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, actively and strategically shaped the collective memory of the women's suffrage movement. In doing so, Anthony came to occupy a central role in the story—so much so that Tetrau...