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Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles

Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles

information about Civil War women

Excellent resource for statistics on women in office

Another one of the precious collections provided by that most excellent of libraries, Harvard University Library. It's so great that they don't just lock it up and be snobs. Good on them.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and image

A collection of primary sources from women in the US Civil War.

Ohio presidents and women candidates including Victoria Woodhull and Marie Brehm

This website, mantained by Catherine Lavender, Department of History, College of Staten Island, includues sections on liberty rhetoric during the revolutionary period, during the textile mill strikes by women during 1834 and 1836, and during the formulation of the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848

Excellent collection of primary source sets on women's suffrage. Interestingly, it shows the counter-movement against women's suffrage by some women. Fascinating stuff.

"The future men and women will have no fear of their clothes clashing with the color schemes of their apartments, as they are changeable at will by means, of multi-colored masked lamps."

Youtube Playlist Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War's long-term economic and intellectual impact. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865 narrates the history of the American Civil War. While the course examines individual engagements and the overall nature of the military conflict, the focus is less on the battlefield than on political, social, and economic change in the Union and the Confederacy. Central to the account are the road to emancipation, the role of black soldiers, the nature of Abraham Lincoln's wartime leadership, internal dissent in both the North and South, the changing position of women in both societies, and the war's long-term economic and intellectual impact. We end with a look at the beginnings of Reconstruction during the conflict. This course is part of the series, The Civil War and Reconstruction, which introduces students to the most pivotal era in American history. The Civil War transformed the nation by eliminating the threat of secession and destroying the institution of slavery. It raised questions that remain central to our understanding of ourselves as a people and a nation - the balance of power between local and national authority, the boundaries of citizenship, and the meanings of freedom and equality. The series will examine the causes of the war, the road to secession, the conduct of the Civil War, the coming of emancipation, and the struggle after the war to breathe meaning into the promise of freedom for four million emancipated slaves. One theme throughout the series is what might be called the politics of history - how the world in which a historian lives affects his or her view of the past, and how historical interpretations reinforce or challenge the social order of the present. See other courses in this series: The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1850-1861 The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1865-1890 "The Civil War and Recons

Seems to be more of a guide to primary source research rather than a source site itself.

Nice interactive map of the Dayton Accords.  It includes the ethnic distribution in Bosnia before and after the war, as well as maps of the various peace proposals, in addition to the Dayton Accords themselves

The Freedom Center museum tells the dramatic story of the enslaved crossing over that river on the journey to freedom, assisted by men and women of all backgrounds who hated slavery and had created a secret network of escape routes that came to be called 'the Underground Railroad.'

'On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States.'

A set of digital source collections centring mainly on alcohol and society, music, New Jersey, Italy, Late Medieval period, women and environmentalism.

I wonder what everyone else thinks of this type of criticism of education today. Are we watering-down the curriculum due to ideological pre-occupations?

"The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States." There you go.

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