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"A Female Candide": U.S. Empire, Racial Cartographies, and the Education of Grace Halsell, 1952–1986
"A Piece on Cancer While the Water Boils": Women and Their Magazines
A Black Women's History of the United States
A Chicana in China
A History of, and on, Their Own: Jewish Women in America
A Maine Midwife Goes West
A Society of Patriotic Ladies: The Edenton Ladies Tea Party
A Sporting Chance: Title IX and Women's History
A Transatlantic View of Women's Rights: Judith Sargent Murray and the "Vindication" of Mary Wollstonecraft
A Women's Peace Dividend: Rethinking Women's History after World War II
Abortion Care as Moral Work
Across the Divide: Women and the Twentieth Century Interracial Movement
African American Women and Electoral Politics from Reconstruction to the New Deal
African American Women's Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
African American Women's Business History: Who, What, When, How, and Why?
African American Women's History
African American Women, "Citizenship Rights," and Politics
After Griswold and Roe: Public Funding for Sexual Privacy in the 1960s and 1970s
Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism
American History as Women's History
American Women and Marriage in the Twentieth Century
American Women and World War I
American Women during the Civil War
An American Woman in World War II Europe
An Epidemic, "Deformed Babies," and the Early Roots of the Modern Disability Rights Movement
Are Women People? A History of the Equal Rights Amendment
B
"But Some of Us Are Brave": Coloring Women's History and Engendering African American Studies
Behind the Scenes: Women Leaders and Conservative Movement Politics, 1950-1965
Betsy Ross: The Life Behind the Legend
Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Atlantic Travelogues
Beyond the Sex Wars: Histories of Antipornography Feminism
Black and White Women in the Old South
Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights: Rethinking the Women's Movement
Black Women and Children Refugees in the Civil War
Black Women and Freedom
Black Women's Cultural Production and Racial Politics
Black Women's Memories: Monuments, History, and the Louisiana Sugar Plantations of Beyonce's Lemonade
Black Women, Labor, and Citizenship from the Postbellum Period to Early Twentieth Century
Black Women, the Politics of Respectability and the Urban North
Black Women’s Writings, Diasporic Politics, and Pan-African Discourses
Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients, and the FDA Regulation of Depo Provera
Breadwinners: Working Women in the Early Struggle for Gender Equality
Breaking the Highest Glass Ceiling: Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, and the Future
Bridging across the Academic/Public History Chasm
Brown Sugar Melts: African American Women at the Turn of the Millennium
Building a Woman's Movement and Becoming Citizens: A California Story, 1880-1920
C
"Class Acts": Latina Feminist Traditions, 1900-1930
"Colored Citizens": African American Women and Northern Reconstruction
Capitalists with Rooms: A Social and Economic Analysis of Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century West
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: Sailors' Wives and Widows in Nineteenth-century America
Captured at Sea in 1863: Lucy Lord Confronts Confederate Captains and Chinese Corsairs
Coming Home: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth
Conservative among Progressives: Woodrow Wilson in the Golden Age of American Women's Higher Education
Creating an Elite Black Female Intelligentsia: The Case of the Forten Women
D
Daughter of the U.S.-Mexican War: The Origins of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the 1846 Invasion of Mexico
Deported But Not Defeated: Emma Goldman during World War I
Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics
Doing Women's History in Public: Using Tangible Resources to Enliven our Understanding
Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
Dolley Madison: A Case Study of Female Leadership in the Early Republic
Domestic Workers Organize, Past and Present
Doris Miller, Hero of Pearl Harbor and Catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement
Dreaming Women's Equality: Past and Present Possibilities
E
'East Unites with West': African American Women's Visions of Japan in the Twentieth Century
Partus Sequitur Ventrum: Slave Law and the Histories of Women in Slavery
Ecstatic Utopians: The Radical Women's Liberation Movement, 1960-1980
Eleanor Roosevelt, Women, and Power
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kim Davis, and the Changing Meaning of "Religious Freedom"
Ella Baker: The Woman who Invented the Civil Rights Movement
F
Faith, Sex, Congress, and Celebrity: How Clare Boothe Luce Shaped American Culture
Federal Mothers: What Happened When Women Went to Work in the U.S. Indian Service
Female Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South
Feminism and the Civil Rights Revolution
Feminists, Social Constructivists, and Well-Meaning War Criminals: Redefining American Science in the 1970s
Fifty Years of Feminism: Where Have We Come from since the 1960s? Where Are We Going?
Fighting over Susan B. Anthony: A Modern-Day Abortion Controversy
Fine, Strong Women
For the Many: America's Progressive Politics and the Global Women Who Made It
Founding Mothers: How Women Shaped the American Revolution
Free Them All: African American Women Exiles in Cuba
From One Generation to Another: Mothers, Daughters, and Women's History
From Sophie Tucker to Sarah Silverman: The Subversive Tradition of Jewish Women Comedians
From Widow to Welfare Queen: Race and the Transformation of Economic Support for Poor Women
G
Generations of Protest: Women and the Struggle for Puerto Rico's Independence
Geographies of Pain and Pleasure: Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Gertrude Stein, Race, and the New Woman
Gloria Richardson
God, Race, and Religion: Black Women and Africa
H
"How Powerful is the Ideal, Sweeping across Space and Time": Emma Goldman and Anarchist Precedents to the Global Occupy Movements
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
History, Memoir, Maternity
Home, Cooking: The Uses of Women's History in Contemporary Food Politics
I
"I'm Still Surviving": Toward a Women's History of HIV/AIDS
Images of Diverse Womanhood in Late Twentieth-Century Urban America: The Case of Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin
Intimate Strategies: Civil War Military Commanders and Their Wives
Is Birth Control Moral? Margaret Sanger and Changing Views of Contraception
J
Jeannette Rankin: Her Visible and Invisible Legacy
Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists
L
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Learning to Stand and Speak: Educating Women for Public Life
Lincoln and the Widow Bixby
Losing the Battle but Winning the War: Sandra Day O’Connor, Ronald Reagan, and the Rise of the New Right
Low-Income Black Women's Struggles for Justice
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"Mother of All the Living": Motherhood, Religion, and Political Culture at the Ojibwe Village of Fond du Lac, 1835–1839
#MeToo, Carry Nation, and Why It’s Time to Revisit the History of the Temperance Movement
Mainstreams and Cutting Edges: Women and the Grand Narrative of U.S. History
Modesta Avila and Other Women on the Borderlands
Mother Is A Verb: Unconventional Histories of the American Past
Mrs. Dred Scott
Mrs. Madison's War: Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
Mrs. Maggie Walker and Her Independent Order: African Americans Defy Jim Crow
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"No Crystal Stair": Three Centuries of Black Women's Work in America, 1619–2019
Natalie Scott of New Orleans: Race and Gender on the Western Front
National Parks and Historic Sites: American History
Native American New Women in the Jazz Age
Neoliberalism, Domestic Work, and New Models of Labor Organizing
No Permanent Waves: Reimagining Histories of U.S. Feminism
Not Just the Facts: Approaches to the History of Women and Gender
Not Your Father's Liberty: Reproductive Freedom and the Fourteenth Amendment
Not Your Grandmother's Grandmother: Changes in Popular Culture Images of the American Grandmother in the Twentieth Century
O
Object Lessons: Rewriting the History of Clothing and Community in Federal New England
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"Perpetually Propagating Patriarchs": Estelle Lawton Lindsey and the Sensational Journalism in the 1910s Los Angeles Record
Passion, Politics, and Free Expression: The Legacy of Emma Goldman
Patsy for President: Patsy Takemoto Mink, Cold War Liberalism, and the Viet Nam War
Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America
Pelagie Farribault's Island: Marriage and the American State in Early Nineteenth-Century Dakota Country
Performing "Civic Decency": The Black Women and Girls who Desegregated American Schools
Power, Place and Identity: Women in Public, 1890-1930
Practicing Public History: Feminist Projects and Prospects
Puerto Rican Women's Feminism in New York City and Beyond
Q
Quaker Wives and Cape Horn Widows: Colonial Women in New England Seaports
R
Reading Abigail Adams's Mail
Ready to Turn the World Upside Down: Radical Feminism and the Politics of Jewish Identity
Rearing Black Girls for Leadership during the Jim Crow Era
Reassessing Eugenic Sterilization: The Case of North Carolina
Reexamining the Pelvic: Medical Education and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Remembering the 1968 Women's Liberation Miss America Protest, Fifty Years Later
Remembering the Ladies in the Story of the Founding
Rethinking Nina Simone as an Icon in an Age of Black Lives Matter Activism
Rethinking the "Feminine Mystique": American Women in the 1950s
Rosa Parks, the Radical
S
"Single Girl, Married Girl": Feminism in Country Music
"Southern Horrors": Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching in the American South
Seamstresses and Whores: Working Women and Women's Work in the Industrial Century
Searching for Mother Jones
Sexy from the Start: Female Sexuality and the Second Wave of Feminism
Sister Sailors and Hen Frigates: American Women at Sea in the Age of Sail
Sisters and Rebels: Inventing Modern Lives from the Shadow of the Confederacy to the Great American Inquisition
Slaveholding Mistresses and Enslaved Women in the Plantation Household
Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Motherhood
Society Ladies and Political Parties: A Study in American Women's History
Solving the Servant Problem: Domestic Service and Labor Reform during the Progressive Era
Southern Women on the Left
Suffrage at 100: Women's Suffrage Activism since 1920
T
"The Importance of Being Chisholm": Race, Gender, and Politics in the Life of Shirley Chisholm
"The Maid and Mr. Charlie": Black Women and Sexual Violence in the Jim Crow South
"The Most Hated Woman in America": Madalyn Murray O'Hair's Atheist Crusade Against Religion
"Too Wretched for Women": Agriculture, Modernization, and Gender at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
The "New Woman" in the 1920s
The 1950s: Feminine Mystique or Feminist Movement?
The Afterlives of Josephine Baker
The Challenge of Feminist Biography
The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Women's History
The Dynamics of Modern Marriage in the United States and Beyond
The First Ladies during the Civil War
The Gender of Poverty: How Women Overseas Became the Deserving Poor
The Great White Mother: Maternalism and Settler Colonialism in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940
The Historical Legacy of American Jewish Mothers
The History of Women's Freedom Struggles in the United States
The Impact of Racial and Sexual Politics on Women's History
The Impact of the Women's Movement on Athletes and Athletics
The Invisible Battle: Women at Gettysburg, 1863
The Long View: Birth Control and Reproduction in America since the Seventeenth Century
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's Health and Second-Wave Feminism
The Many Lives of Mary Lincoln
The Montgomery Bus Boycott as a Women's Movement for Dignity
The Politics of Enslaved Women's Self-Liberation
The Politics of Womanhood: From the Progressive Era to Trump World
The Real Sister Act: Confronting the Uneasy History of Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life
The Real Story of Josefina Montoya, American Girl: Women, Property, and Conquest on the Mexican Frontier
The Rise of the Modern First Lady: Edith Kermit Roosevelt, a Victorian Modern in the White House
The Role of Women in Twentieth-Century Immigration Strategies
The Slave Female World of Sally Hemings
The Social Gospel and Women's Interracial Coalitions
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America
The U.S. Congressional Women's Tour of China: Women's Internationalism and Cold War Diplomacy
The Woman behind J. P. Morgan's Library: Belle da Costa Greene in the Age of Collecting
The Women Jefferson Loved
The Women's Committee: International Labor, Gender, and the Cold War
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at 100
To Dream of Becoming a Judith: The Jewish Roots of Emma Goldman's Anarchism
“This Is Our Message”: How Women’s Leadership Built the New Christian Right
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U.S. Women's Legal Status
Understanding and Interpreting a Life: Helen Gurley Brown
V
Virginia Foster Durr: From Southern Belle to Radical Democrat
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We Are a College at War: American Women in World War II
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
What is Work? Who is a Worker? Homeworkers, Household Workers, and Poor Single Mothers
What Women Want: A Comparison of the Way Black and White Women Approach Postmodern America
What's Laundry Got to Do with It?
When Abortion Was a Crime: The American Past, and Present?
Who Was a Suffragist? A More Diverse View
Why Women's History Matters
Why Women's Movements Matter
Witches Everywhere: Witchcraft in the Early Modern World
Woman of Two Worlds: Anna Chennault, Informal Diplomacy, and U.S.-Asian Relations
Women and Early Industrialization: The Lowell Example
Women and Feminism in the Trump Era
Women and Modern Conservatism
Women and Oklahoma Statehood
Women and the All-Volunteer Force
Women and the American Civil War
Women and the Civil Rights Movement: A History of Feminism in Black Freedom Struggles
Women and the Civil War "Homefronts"
Women and the Rise of the Surveillance State in the Progressive Era
Women and the West
Women and the Work of Empire: Housewives, Servants, and Others in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1914
Women before the Bar: Snapshots of Early American Courtrooms
Women in the Civil War
Women in the Civil War South: Battle on the Homefront
Women on the Margins of Freedom in the Early American South
Women's Associations and Civil War Memory
Women's Labors as the World's Work: The Transnational Reach of U.S. Labor Feminism
Women's Legal History
Women's Rights and Reproductive Justice
Women, Religion, and Agency: Some Reflections on Writing American Women's Religious History
Women, World War I, and the Emergence of Modern America
Women’s History as American History
Work, Women, and Wobblies: The IWW Strikes in Colorado's Coal Fields, 1927
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"You Just Had to Depend on Yourself": Self-Reliance and the Healing Work of Enslaved Women
You Are What You Shop: Women Against the Sweatshop, Past and Present
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45 Years of Arguing about Reproduction Control
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