Spotlight on: Primary Source The struggle for married women’s rights, circa 1880s Government and Civics In the early nineteenth century, married women in the US were legally subordinate to their husbands. Wives could not own their own property, keep their own wages, or enter into contracts. Beginning in 1839, states slowly began to...
History Now Essay Women in American Politics in the Twentieth Century Sara Evans Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ At the beginning of the twentieth century, women were outsiders to the formal structures of political life—voting, serving on juries, holding elective office—and they were subject to wide-ranging discrimination that marked them as... Appears in: 7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006
History Now Essay The Legal Status of Women, 1776–1830 Marylynn Salmon Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ State law rather than federal law governed women’s rights in the early republic. The authority of state law meant that much depended upon where a woman lived and the particular social circumstances in her region of the country. The... Appears in: 7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006
News National Poetry Month, Part 3: Poem on a Civil War Death In the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Virginia, on October 21, 1861, the 1st Minnesota Volunteers had just one casualty: a man named Lewis Mitchell. Mitchell was “only a private,” one of the approximately 750,000 casualties in the Civil War....
Essay History Times: The Industrial Revolution Gilder Lehrman Institute K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 A Changing Nation The second half of the nineteenth century can be described as a time of innovation, invention, and rapid growth—a period known as the "Industrial Revolution." Many inventions from this period never caught on or have...