Women in U.S. History: A Resource Guide

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Bloomsbury Academic, Nov 15, 2000 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 344 pages
Discover the best books, Web sites, audiovisual items, and other materials to research notable women of the United States. Learn about women from Colonial times to the present day who have made strides in many fields of endeavor including the arts, literature, politics, religion, science, and sports. Materials listed feature women from all regions of the country and from many American cultural groups. The guide concentrates on materials published or produced during the 1990s, and its final section outlines the field of women's history in terms of its historiography, theory and methodology, and its place in education.

Contents

An Overview
1
2The Female Experience
2
6Transcended Education
6
General
20
Salem Witchcraft
26
Victorians to Voters 1820 to 1920
35
Industrial Revolution and the Labor Movement
44
NonBook Material
50
NonBook Material
169
3The Province of Women continued
174
Literature
186
Politics
197
Religion
204
Science and Technology
210
NonBook Material
218
Work
239

Reform
79
V
84
2
92
World War I
98
New Milieu to New Millennium 1920 to 2000
104
The 1920s
112
NonBook Material
120
NonBook Material
127
General and Regional Materials
136
NonBook Material
147
European Americans
154
Native Americans
163
4Historiography of Women in the United States
251
Changes in the Twentieth Century
263
Womens History Boom
270
Classroom As Curriculum
307
SingleSex Classrooms
313
AuthorTitle Index
319
259
324
173
332
Subject Index
335
5Womens History Theory and Methodology
337
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LYDA MARY HARDY is a school library media specialist, Gunnison High School, Colorado.

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