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History Now Issue

American History in Visual Art

#45 Summer 2016

Program/Event

Teaching Literacy through History Videos

History Now Essay

The First Generation: America’s Women Voters, 1776–1807

Marcela Micucci

Most histories of women gaining the right to vote in the United States begin in July of 1848, when hundreds of activists gathered in Seneca Falls to hold the first women’s rights convention and sign the Declaration of Sentiments. The...

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56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020

Collection Item

circa 1920-1947

unknown, fl. 1920-1947

[Photograph of two Japanese-American women outside a railway car]

One undated black-and-white photograph depicting two Japanese-American women outside a railway car.

GLC09860.001

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The Education of Women: On This Day, 1735

On May 19, 1735, the New-York Weekly Journal republished an article from England’s The Guardian on the reasons to educate women . Most notably, the author (most likely Joseph Addison) states that women, though they have different...