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Sisters of Suffrage: British and American Women Fight for the Vote
The dominant narrative of the entire women’s...
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The Legal Status of Women, 1776–1830
State law rather than federal law governed women’s rights in the early republic. The authority of state law meant that...
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When the Past Speaks to the Present: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in, and historical scholarship about, American...
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Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow
Satchel Paige was pitching in the Negro Leagues in California when he got the news he had been anticipating for two decades. Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey had just signed...
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Lincoln and Abolitionism
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Two Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Connections between the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution
The late eighteenth century saw two successful anti-colonial revolutions unfold in the...
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The US and Spanish American Revolutions
If one says “American Revolution” in the United States today, it is assumed that what is being referred to is the North American liberation struggles against the British Empire in...
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The Spectacles of 1912
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The Impact of Title IX
One of the great achievements of the women’s movement was the enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The law states...
