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Glossary Term – Event

First private meeting between Lincoln and Douglass

In the first private meeting between Frederick Douglass and President Lincoln, Douglass demanded equal treatment and pay for black soldiers.

Primary Source

People’s Party campaign poster, 1892

In July 1892, the Populist Party (or People’s Party), formed by farmers and labor supporters, held its first convention...

Teaching Resource

Examining Women’s Roles through Primary Sources and Literature

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How were the ever-changing roles of women in American society chronicled?

Background

Joseph Heller writes in his book The Feminization of Quest-Romance that “American Literature equates the very essence of what it means to be American with the essence of what it means to be male. [Thus] women’s roles are identified only in relation to the male heroes whose identities they strengthen.” It can be argued that throughout much of American history, American women had few rights or...