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    Inventing the American Constitution

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  • The Child in the Electric Chair

    The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South

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  • Civil War Wives

    de Carol Berkin ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding ... Leer más

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  • Women in Early America

    The fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic.Women in Early America goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women―both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant―who lived and worked in not ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionary Mothers

    Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

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    **A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence—for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (**Los Angeles Times Book Review).The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In ... Leer más

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  • The Bill of Rights

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  • Wondrous Beauty

    The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

    de Carol Berkin ...
    From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage ... Leer más

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  • A Sovereign People

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  • In the Words of Women

    The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765 - 1799

    In the Words of Women brings together the writings-letters, diaries, journals, pamphlets, poems, plays, depositions, and newspaper articles-of women who lived between 1765 and 1799. The writings are organized chronologically around events, battles, and developments from before the Revolution, through its prosecution and aftermath. They reflect the thoughts, observations and experiences of women ... Leer más

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  • First Generations

    Women in Colonial America

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  • Clio in the Classroom

    A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women's History

    Over the last four decades, women's history has developed from a new and marginal approach to history to an established and flourishing area of the discipline taught in all history departments. Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin, Margaret ... Leer más

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    Revolutionary Mothers

    Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

    de Carol Berkin ...
    Narrado por Donna Postel ...

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    6 hora 42 minutos

    The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle.Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. We see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, ... Leer más

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