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      • 1492-1734 Early Encounters
          • Nicolás Enríquez de Vargas (artist), Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ca. 1750. Oil on canvas. Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City.

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            • Dutch Colonies
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      • 1692-1783 Settler Colonialism and the Revolution
          • François (Franz) Fleischbein (artist), Portrait of Betsy, 1837. The Historic New Orleans Collection, acc. no. 1985.212.

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            • Settler Colonialism
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            • The American Revolution
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      • 1776-1831 Building a New Nation
          • Jarena Lee, 1849. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee: giving an account of her call to preach the gospel, frontispiece. Engraving. New-York Historical Society Library.

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            • Navigating the New Government
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            • American Woman
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            • Early Expansion
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      • 1828-1869 Expansions and Inequalities Coming 2022!
          • Unknown photographer, A Typical Boomer Family, ca. 1890. New-York Historical Society.

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            Expansions and Inequalities, 1820-1869 examines what Westward Expansion meant to the diverse women living within and outside of the expanding nation’s borders, how women responded to the burgeoning immigration debate, and the roles women played in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

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      • 1832-1877 A Nation Divided
          • Unidentified African American woman in uniform, 1861. New-York Historical Society Library.

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            • Antebellum
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      • 1866-1904 Industry and Empire
          • Cihak and Zima (photographer), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, ca. 1893-1894. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center.

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            • Labor and Industry
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            • Fighting for Equality
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            • Expansion and Empire
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      • 1889–1920 Modernizing America
          • Gertrude Kasebier (photographer), Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, c. 1898. Gertrude Kasebier, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

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            • Modern Womanhood
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            • Fighting For Social Reform
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            • Woman Suffrage
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            • Xenophobia and Racism
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      • 1920–1948 Confidence and Crises
          • Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor of physics at Columbia University, 1963. Smithsonian Institute Archives Image # SIA 2010-1509.

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            • Jazz Age
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      • 1948–1977 Growth and Turmoil
          • “Oportunidades Iguales Para Las Mujeres En El Trabajo y La Educaccion”, Women’s Strike for Equality, New York, Fifth Avenue, 1970, Eugene Gordon photograph collection, 1970-1990. New-York Historical Society Library.

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            • Cold War Beginnings
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            • Feminism and the Backlash
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      • 1974-2018 The Information Age Coming 2022!
          • Sarah Atwood Yale (maker), “I march against…” embroidered sign carried at Women’s March on Chicago, 2017. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Sarah Atwood Yale.

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            The Information Age, 1974-2018 looks at the experiences of women as technology, globalization, and increasingly polarized politics shaped the nation.

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American Culture

  • White Settler Women
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    White Settler Women

White Settler Women

Excerpts from a travel journal that illustrate what life was like for the earliest women settlers in the western territories.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T13:24:28-04:00
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  • Life Story: Charity and Sylvia
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    Life Story: Charity and Sylvia

Life Story: Charity and Sylvia

Charity and Sylvia were recognized as a married couple in Weybridge and eventually celebrated as models of lifelong companionship.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T12:40:47-04:00
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  • Life Story: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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    Life Story: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Life Story: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

The story of a leader in science and education.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T12:21:49-04:00
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  • Life Story: Asenath Smith
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    Life Story: Asenath Smith

Life Story: Asenath Smith

The story of the woman whose experiences inspired the nation’s first abortion law.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T12:13:13-04:00
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  • Life Story: Jarena Lee
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    Life Story: Jarena Lee

Life Story: Jarena Lee

The story of a Black woman preacher of the Second Great Awakening.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T11:48:06-04:00
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  • Quilting
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    Quilting

Quilting

A new American folk art is born from an abundance of cotton and the new textile mills.

Lee Boomer2021-11-11T00:12:59-05:00
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  • Early American Consumers
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    Early American Consumers

Early American Consumers

This object illustrates how women consumers helped boost the new nation’s economy.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T11:01:18-04:00
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  • Observations of the New Nation
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    Observations of the New Nation

Observations of the New Nation

Two foreign visitors capture the spirit and culture of the new nation.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T10:34:49-04:00
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  • Silhouettes
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    Silhouettes

Silhouettes

An example of the “democratic” portrait style made by one of the Federal period’s most famous silhouette makers.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T10:18:49-04:00
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  • Novel for a New Era
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    Novel for a New Era

Novel for a New Era

An excerpt from the first bestseller of the Federal period reveals prevailing attitudes about women’s sexuality.

Lee Boomer2021-11-08T14:32:56-05:00
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