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Women’s History Month Resources

March is Women’s History Month, a time to commemorate the significant role women played in shaping American history. The Gilder Lehrman Institute has numerous essays, primary sources, lesson plans, videos, and more on American women’s...

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The History of Women’s Baseball

Kerry Candaele

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

From 1943 to 1954, "America’s pastime" was a game played in skirts. At its peak in 1948, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) fielded ten teams in midwestern towns like Rockford, Illinois (Peaches); South Bend,...

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23 | Turning Points in American Sports Spring 2010

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Celebrate Black History Month with Inside the Vault

This February Inside the Vault , the online program that highlights unique primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, celebrates Black History Month with explorations of major Black writers and orators of the eighteenth and...

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Re-envision Women's History with Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton

Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton have revolutionized the field of American women’s history in their academic careers. Berkin struggled against a generation that believed incorrectly that there were no primary sources to...

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Black History Month Resources

In celebration of Black History Month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute highlights resources for studying Black history in America through curated groupings of documents and accompanying materials. Frederick Douglass Resources The Gilder...

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1924

Levine, Louis, fl. 1924

The Women's garment workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

First edition with half-tone photographs and appendices. Published by B. W. Huebsch.

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Explore Black History Month Resources

In celebration of Black History Month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute highlights resources for studying Black history in America through curated groupings of documents and accompanying materials. Frederick Douglass Resources The Gilder...

History Now Issue

Women's Suffrage

#7 Spring 2006

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History U | Black Women's History

Black Women's History This History U course focuses on African American women’s history in the United States with certain aspects of Black women’s activism and leadership within the African Diaspora. Course Instructor : Professor Kellie Carter...

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1886

Pamphlet

"Mormon" women's protest.

Title continues: "an appeal for freedom, justice and equal rights. The ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protest against the tyranny and indecency of federal officials in Utah, and against their own disfranchisement without...

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