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Coming Soon. A database of Primary Sources, organized chronologically, is also available. To learn more about the raw materials of history, link to over 300 historical documents and images, including pages of Martha Ballard's diary and photographs of women in the Civil Rights Movement. Your instructor may ask you to examine various documents and write your own interpretation of them. You can also use the documents on your own in conducting research for a paper or in preparing a presentation.





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Women and the American Experience: A Concise History 2/e                               
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Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900 2/e  

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Women and the American Experience 3/e

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Modern American Women: A documentary History 2/e

 

 

 

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Nineteenth Century


Read the famous 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions at http://www.closeup.org/sentimnt.htm.

Read a letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony written at Seneca Falls at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/797;hf=0. 

Look at Susan B. Anthony’s accounts of the American Anti-Slavery Society at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/36017;hf=0. 

See Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s 1860 original “The Slave’s Appeal” at http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@Generic__BookTextView/36149;hf=0. 

View the 1860 “Appeal to the Women of New York” by the New York State Women’s Rights Committee at  http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/sa/@ebt-link;hf=0?target=%25N%15_28018_START_RESTART_N%25#X.

Women led the struggle for their own rights.  How did men react?  How did they get involved?  Find links to 19 documents discussing men in the women’s rights movement of the 1850s at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/malesupp/doclist.htm. 

Many women served as nurses in the Civil War.  Learn about their duties and struggles by reading an excerpt from a Confederate nurse’s diary at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/filmmore/ps_diary_nurses.html.

Rose Greenhow ignored feminine conventions and participated in the Civil War as a Confederate spy.  Find 10 links to her original letters at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/roseindex.html.

Look at a photograph of nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission from Virginia at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cwar:4:./temp/~ammem_iJhL::displayType=1:m856sd=cwp:m856sf=4a39585:@@@

Florence Kelley led the push for labor laws in Chicago in the 1890s.  Find links to 19 documents regarding her fight against sweatshops and the mistreatment of women and children workers in Illinois in the 1890s at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/factory/doclist.htm.

Read through the 1862 Morrill Act at http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/www/morrill.html.  It established land grants colleges in rural areas, enabling many women to earn low-cost college degrees.

White women dominated the WCTU.  Look at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wctu2/doclist.htm to find links to 23 documents regarding African-American women and the WCTU.

View photographs of Hull-House at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/jane.addams/hull-house.htm. 

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