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"The Map Proves it"

Collection Item

circa 1919

The Map Proves It [Women's suffrage map]

One map entitled "The Map Proves it" published circa 1919. This map illustrates the United States with different shading and colorizations of each state. The patterns and colors illustrate the status of the states in regards to women's suffrage...

GLC09773

Collection Item

Newspaper clipping

August 31, 1944

Kelpe, Omer H., 1905-1975

These Women

One newspaper clipping sent by Omer H. Kelpe to Virginia Heidt Kelpe in a letter dated August 31, 1944. The clipping features a comic of a man and woman walking down a street. The woman is in a dressing gown with her hair undone. The caption for the...

GLC10047.01.398.02

History Now Essay

Women’s Leadership in the American Revolution

Rosemarie Zagarri

What did it mean for women to exercise "leadership" in the American Revolution? Before that conflict, the question itself would probably have baffled most American women and men. Living within a staunchly patriarchal society, they...

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47 | American Women in Leadership Winter 2017

Lesson Plan

"Contagious Liberty": Women in the Revolutionary Age

Government and Civics

Background The American Revolution, a byproduct of events both on the North American continent and abroad, unleashed a movement that focused on egalitarianism in ways that had never been seen before. Even John Adams commented on these...

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American History 1493-1945

American History 1493-1945 This subscription-based database provides immediate access to images of more than 50,000 documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and is available at schools, libraries, and colleges around the world....