" Engaging... With a novelist's eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an... enthralling
book."—David W. Blight, Chicago Tribune The last battle of the Civil War wasn't fought at …

Best known as the first woman graduate from MIT, and the founder of Home Economics,
Ellen Swallow Richards was a Progressive Era reformer who applied social science …

WEB Du Bois was a leading advocate for granting women the right to vote. This aspect of his
political activism, although highly significant, does not receive nearly as much attention as it …

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.
Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women …

Centuries of pejorative and dismissive commentary, however, provide ample evidence that
the Gothic has not always been so fortunate in its literary critics.[...] fairly recendy, and as a …

Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth
century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended …

In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-
century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious …

This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to
modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in …

19 世纪末20 世纪初, 在美国工业化与城市化的推动下, 美国社会初步实现了从传统农业社会向
现代化工业社会的巨大转型, 并由此产生了大量就业机会. 与此同时, 在众多海内外女性移民涌向 …

Abstract Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823–1896) founded the first correspondence school in the
United States, the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. In the fall of 1873 an educational …