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| Gender, Race and Class in the Colonial Era | |
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| Anne Hutchinson, Trial 1638) | |
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| Sor (Sister ) Juana Ines de la Crux, "Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess, Sor Filotea De La Cruz" | |
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| Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children (c.1650) | |
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| Assembly of Virginia, Statute Outlawing Interracial Unions (1691) | |
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| Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Trial of Susanna Martin (1692) | |
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| Benjamin Wadsworth, A Well-Ordered Family (1712) | |
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| Chrestien Le Clercq, The Customs and Religion of the Indians (1700) | |
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| Mary Jemison, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison | |
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| Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter from an Indentured Servant 1756) | |
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| Eliza Pinckney, Birthday Resolutions (c.1750) | |
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| Phillis Wheatley, Letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom (Feb.11, 1774) | |
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| Judith Cocks, Letter to James Hillhouse (1795) | |
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| From Revolution to Republic: Moral Motherhood and Civic Mission | |
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| Anne Hulton, Letter of a Loyalist Lady 1774) | |
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| Esther DeBerdt Reed, Sentiments of an American Woman 1780) | |
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| Molly Brant Letter to Daniel Claus (June 23rd, 1778) | |
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| Abigail Adams, Letters to John Adams and His Reply (1776) | |
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| Molly Wallace, The Young Ladies, Academy of Philadelphia (1790) | |
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| Eulalia Callis, Petition to Divorce her Husband Pedro Fages (1784-85) | |
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| Abigail Abbot Bailey, Excerpt from Memoirs (1788-89) | |
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| Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) | |
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| Letter from Paul Revere on Behalf of Deborah Sampson Gannet (1804) | |
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| Ladies Society of New York, Constitution (1800) | |
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| Colored Female Religious and Moral Society of Salem, Massachusetts, Constitution 1818) | |
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| Emma Willard, Plan for Female Education (1819) | |
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| John S. C. Abbott, The Mother at Home 1833) | |
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| Emerging Industrialization and Expanding Roles: the Intersection of Opportunity and Domestic Ideals | |
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| Prudence Crandall, Advertisement in The Liberator, "Regarding the Opening of A High School | |
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| For Young Colored Ladies and Misses" (1833) | |
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| Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke Seminary, Letter to Mrs. Cooley, Feb. (1843) | |
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| Barilla Taylor, Letter to Her Family (1844) | |
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| Harriet Hanson Robinson, LowellTextile Workers (1898) | |
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| Letters to the Voice of Industry (1846) | |
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| Sarah Bagley, Letter to Mrs. Martin (March 13, 1848) | |
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| Ellen Monroe, Letter to the Boston Bee (1846) | |
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| Female Labor Reform Association,Testimony Before the Massachusetts Legislature (1845) | |
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| Catharine Beecher, The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children (1846) | |
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| Sarah Josepha Hale, Godey's Lady's Book, Editor's Table, Copy of Petition sent to Congress, Jan. (1856) | |
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| Sarah Josepha Hale, Godey's Lady's Book, Editor's Table, Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Received a | |
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| Medical Education (1857) | |
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| "We Are Not Slaves," New York Times, Female Shoe and Textile Workers Strike Marblehead, Massachusetts, (Feb. 28th 1860) | |
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| Betsy Cowles, Report on Labor, Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) | |
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| Caroline Dall, Women's Right to Labor (1860) | |
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| From Moral Reform to Free Love and Voluntary Motherhood: Issues of Vulnerability and Sexual Agency | |
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| Female Moral Reform Society NYC, Excerpt from First Annual Report: "Licentious Men"(1835) | |
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| Important Lectures to Females (1839) | |
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| Friend of Virtue, Died in Jaffrey, N.H., Aged 27 (1841) | |
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| Caroline Healy Dall, Letter to Paulina Davis and the Woman's Rights Convention (1851) | |
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| Dr. William W. Sanger, Excerpt from the History of Prostitution, Its Extent, Causes, Effects throughout the | |
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| World (1859) | |
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| Lucy Stone, Letter to Antoinette Brown Blackwell (July 11, 1855) | |
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| Paulina Wright Davis, Letter to Women's Rights Conference, Akron, Ohio (1851) | |
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| The Unwelcome Child (1845) | |
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| Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Address: the Whole World's Temperance Convention, September (1853) | |
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| A Temperance Activist (1853) | |
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| Victoria Woodhull, And the Truth Shall Make You Free (1871) | |
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| Harriot Stanton Blatch, "Voluntary Motherhood", Speech, the National Woman's Council (1891) | |
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| Winnifred Harper Cooley,The New Womanhood (1904) | |
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| Enslaved Women: Race, Gender and the Plantation Patriarchy [New Chapter] | |
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| Benjamin Drew, Narrative of an Escaped Slave (1855) | |
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| Harriet Tubman, Excerpts from A Biography by Her Contemporaries c.1880) | |
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| Bethany Veney, The Autobiography of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889) | |
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| Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) | |
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| Elizabeth Keckley, Excerpt from Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) | |
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| State v. Celia, a Slave, Excerpt from her Trial for Murder, Missouri (1855) | |
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| Rose Williams, Interview, Texas, W.P.A., (1930's) | |
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| Fanny Kemble, Journal Excerpt (1838) | |
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| Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861) | |
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| Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Excerpt from The Secret Eye (Sept. 17, 1864) | |
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| Letitia Burwell, A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (1895) | |
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| Abolitionist Women and the Issue of Racial Equality [New Chapter] | |
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| Maria M.Stewart, Farewell Address to my Friends (Sept. 21st 1833) | |
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| Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Letter to The Liberator (1836) | |
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| Sarah Mapps Douglass, Letter to William Basset, a Lynn Massachusetts abolitionist (1837) | |
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| Lydia Maria Child, Excerpt from the Appeal: "Prejudices Against People of Color, and our Duties in Relation to this Subject" (1833) | |
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| Pastoral Letter to New England Churches (1837) | |
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| Sarah Grimkÿ, Reply to Pastoral Letter (1837) | |
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| Angelina Grimke Weld, Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838) | |
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| Angelina Grimkÿ, An Appeal to the Woman of the Nominally Free States (1838) | |
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| Julia Hardy Lovejoy, Letter to the Independent Democrat, Concord New Hampshire (August 1st, 1855) | |
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| Elizabeth Jennings Graham, "A Wholesome Verdict" New York Tribune, 23rd Feb. pp.7: 4 (1855) | |
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| Frances Watkins Harper, Excerpt from Speech (1857) | |
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| Sarah Remond, Excerpt from her Autobiography (1861) | |
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| Women's Rights and the Contest over Woman's "Place" | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments 1848) | |
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| Catharine Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism in Reference to the Duty of American Females, 1837 | |
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| Caroline Gilman, Recollections of a Southern Matron (1838) | |
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| Lucretia Mott, Discourse on Women 1849) | |
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| Emily Collins, Reminiscences of the Suffrage Trail (c.188 ) | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, On Marriage and Divorce (c.1850) | |
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| Sojourner Truth, A'n't I a Woman? (1851) | |
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| Ernestine Rose,This Is the Law but Where Is the Justice of It? (1852) | |
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| Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell,Marriage Contract (1855) | |
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| Rebecca Gratz, Unsigned letter on Behalf of Founding a Jewish Orphanage (1850) | |
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| Elizabeth Smith Miller "Reflections on Woman's Dress and the Record of a Personal Experience" (1892) | |
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| Frances Willard "A Wheel within a Wheel; How I Learned to Ride a Bicycle" (1895) | |
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| Western Expansion: Diverse Stories, Different Viewpoints [New Chapter] | |
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| Nancy Ward and Cherokee Women Petition their Tribal Leaders (1817) | |
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| Ladies of Steubenville Ohio, Petition Against Indian Removal (Feb.15th 1830) | |
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| Harriet L. Noble, Excerpt from her Recollections recorded in Elizabeth Ellet, Pioneer Women of the West (1852) | |
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| Journal of Narcissa Whitman, Letter to her Mother (May 2nd 1840) | |
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| Guri Olsdatter, Letter to her Family (1866) | |
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| Eulalia Perez, Reminiscences Transcribed, 1877 | |
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| Isadora Filomena, Testimony of the Widow of Prince Solano (1874) | |
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| Rosalia Vallejo Leese, "Hoisting of the Bear Flag" (1877) | |
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| The Biography of Guadalupe Lupita Galligos Federal Writers' Project,( Oct. 27, 1938) | |
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| Luzena Stanley Wilson'49er, "Memories Recalled for her Daughter, Correnah Wilson Wright" (1881) | |
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| Mary Ballou California Gold Rush, "Hogs in my Kitchen"(1852) | |
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| Bridget (Biddy) Mason (1818-1891), Court Trial, Mason v. Smith (1856) | |
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| Labor Contract for Chinese Prostitutes, (1886) | |
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| Civil War, Reconstruction, Racial and Gender Politics | |
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| Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Letter to the Hon. William H. Seward Nov. 1, 1861 | |
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| Clara Barton, Nursing on the Firing Line (c.1870) | |
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| Phoebe Yates Levy Pember, A Southern Woman's Story 1879) | |
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| Charlotte Forten, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1862) | |
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| Elizabeth Packard, Excerpt from the Prisoner's Hidden Life or Insane Asylums Unveiled (1868) | |
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| Frances Watkins Harper, "We Are All Bound Up Together," Address to the 11th National Women's | |
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| Convention, New York (1866) | |
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| Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Why Women Should Not Seek the Vote (1869) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony, Proceedings of the Trial (1873) | |
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| Edward H. Clarke, Sex in Education; Or a Fair Chance for the Girls (1873) | |
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| Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) | |
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| Amelia Barr, Discontented Women (1896) | |
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| Separate Sisterhoods: Identity and Division | |
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| Anna Julia Cooper, Address to the World's Congress of Representative Women, Chicago (1893) | |
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| M. Carey Thomas, Present Tendencies in Women's Education (1908) | |
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| Anna Manning Comfort, Only Heroic Women Were Doctors Then (1916) | |
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| Martha E.D. White, Work of the Woman's Club (1904) | |
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| Grover Cleveland, Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs (1905) | |
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| National Association of Colored Women, Club Activities (1906) | |
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| Frances Willard, On Behalf of Home Protection (1884) | |
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| Zitkala���Sa, The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900) | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Bible and Church Degrade Women (1898) | |
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| Ida Wells Barnett, A Red Record (1895) | |
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| Selena S. Butler,The Chain Gang System | |
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| Women's Roles: Americanization and the Multicultural West | |
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| Martha (Mattie) Virginia Oblinger, Letter to her Family (June 16th 1873) | |
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| Sarah Thal, Recollections of a German-Jewish Woman in North Dakota (1882) | |
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| Helen Hunt Jackson, Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor (1883) | |
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| Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883) | |
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| Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) Dependent Races, National Council of Women (1891) | |
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| Sister Blandina Segale, Excerpt: At the End of the Santa Fe Trail | |
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| Johanna July, Interview, Federal Writers Project (1936-1940) | |
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| Emmeline Wells "Is It Ignorance?" Woman's Exponent (July 1st, 1883) | |
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| Fanny Stenhouse , Tell It All: A Woman's Life in Polygamy (1875) | |
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| Elizabeth Piper Ensley, Suffrage Victory in Colorado (1893) | |
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| Mary McGladery Tape A Chinese Mother Protests School Segregation in San Francisco, Letter to | |
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| School Board (1885) | |
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| Elinoir Pruitt Stewart, Letter from a Woman Homesteader,"Filing a Claim"(1911) | |