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Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
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Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women’s eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman’s war. The “women of the army” toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to k… More >>
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
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Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
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When famed historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent Thomas Savage, Henry Cerruti, and Vicente Perfecto Gómez out to gather the oral histories of the pre-American gentry of the new state of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, Savage, Cerruti, and Gómez collected the stories of the women of the household, almost as an afterthought: these were archived at the University of California; some were never even translated int… More >>
Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
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Women in American History
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Table of Contents: Documents – Native American Women – European American Women – African American Women – Mexican American Women and Asian American Women… More >>
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