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  • Founding Radicals

    Frances Wright and the Women Who Shaped a Young America

    by Eleanor Rust, Tristra Newyear ...
    Meet the underappreciated and yet fascinating early nineteenth-century women who dared to pursue America’s cherished values of liberty and justice for allFounding Radicals tells the eye-opening stories of American radical speaker, newspaper editor, and philosopher Frances Wright along with a dozen other historically impactful women who were active in the first decades of the American republic. In ... Read more

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  • The Season

    A Social History of the Debutante

    by Kristen Richardson ...
    **A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2019“Sparkling.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR**Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries, letters, and interviews conducted at contemporary balls. Richardson takes the reader from Georgian England to colonial Philadelphia, from the Antebellum South and Wharton ... Read more

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  • Oneida

    From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

    by Ellen Wayland-Smith ...
    A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Plantation Mistress

    by Catherine Clinton ...
    This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary ... Read more

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  • A History of Women in America

    From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

    by Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman ...
    From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society.Note: This edition does not include photographs. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • From These Roots

    My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

    by Tamara Lanier ...
    One woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors’ history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard UniversityTamara Lanier grew up listening to her mother’s stories about her ancestors. As Black Americans descended from enslaved people brought to America, they knew all too well how fragile the tapestry of a lineage could be. As her ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Weeping Time

    Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

    by Anne C. Bailey ...
    In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, ... Read more

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  • CITY OF WOMEN

    by Christine Stansell ...
    In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen ... Read more

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  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Read more

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  • Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

    Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights

    by Sylvia D. Hoffert ...
    A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage.Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter to wed an aristocrat. This resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good ... Read more

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  • Southern Honor

    Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

    by Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...
    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    by Teresa Anne Murphy ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD