A collection of primary source documents for the American women's history course, "Modern American Women: A Documentary History" focuses on events and developments involving women from 1890 to the present. New material includes: documents on anti-lynching activism and Indian relocation; excerpts from "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler; and ...
Title IX represents a watershed in the history of girls' and women's education. In 1971, the year before Title IX was passed, fewer than 295,000 high school girls and 30,000 college women participated in their schools' athletic programs. By 2001, those numbers had increased to 2.8 million and 150,000, respectively. Through this rich collection of ...
Describes the experiences of American women during the Depression and examines women's role in education, industry, the feminist movement, literature, art, and popular culture
The New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt brought an unprecedented number of women to Washington to serve in positions of power and influence. "Beyond Suffrage" is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan Ware discusses the network they established, their attitudes toward feminism and social reform ...
One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and ...
The publication of the first volumes of "Notable American Women" in 1971 was a watershed event in women's history. By uncovering and documenting the enormous contributions that women had made--previously overlooked or underappreciated--this important reference work changed the way historians thought and wrote about American history. This latest ...
For "Forgotten Heroes", a few of the country's leading historians were invited to choose their favorite stories of under appreciated Americans--from Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy, to Alfred Kazin on "the failed president" John Quincy Adams, to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses". ...
Description: An 8vo pamphlet of 10p. Fine. "for the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America". Address on the 60 year anniversary of A. E. 's disappearance. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library of the...
Description: A 4to paperbound book of 261p. Corners rather rolled; 1" slip containing former owner's name clipped from top of Front Cover; about Good. read more
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