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The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women’s Suffrage
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Sylvester Graham and Antebellum Diet Reform
“Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.” So begins Michael Pollan’s 2009 book, In Defense of Food. Pollan has made a career...
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Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States
The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven...
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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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Appropriation to “civilize” American Indians
Congress enacted a statute providing the first appropriation (of $10,000) for “civilizing” American Indians. The “civilization fund” was continued annually until 1871.
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First high school for girls
In Troy, New York, Emma Hart Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary, the first institution in the United States to offer a high school education for girls.
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First secular utopian community
In Indiana, Robert Owen established New Harmony, the first secular utopian community.