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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.

          • Coming in 2022!

            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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Immigration, Migration, and Settlement

  • Life Story: Sacagawea
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    Life Story: Sacagawea

Life Story: Sacagawea

The story of the young Shoshone woman who assisted Lewis and Clark during their expedition through the Louisiana Territory.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T16:46:12-04:00
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  • Settling Texas
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    Settling Texas

Settling Texas

A document that records an American woman’s petition for a land grant from Mexico.

Lee Boomer2021-11-04T16:39:14-04:00
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  • 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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  • Daughters of Erin in America
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    Daughters of Erin in America

Daughters of Erin in America

An excerpt from an account of the War of 1812 shows how Irish immigrant women contributed to their new nation.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T11:18:33-04:00
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  • Life in the Arizona Territory
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    Life in the Arizona Territory

Life in the Arizona Territory

The diary of a schoolteacher who worked in a remote town in the Arizona Territory.

Lee Boomer2021-11-03T16:44:39-04:00
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  • Life Story: Polly Bemis
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    Life Story: Polly Bemis

Life Story: Polly Bemis

The story of a Chinese immigrant who became a pioneer in Idaho.

Lee Boomer2021-11-05T14:34:28-04:00
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  • Life Story: Mary Ellen Pleasant
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    Life Story: Mary Ellen Pleasant

Life Story: Mary Ellen Pleasant

The story of a Black entrepreneur who made her fortune in the West.

Lee Boomer2021-11-11T15:46:18-05:00
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  • Indigenous Resistance to Relocation
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    Indigenous Resistance to Relocation

Indigenous Resistance to Relocation

A speech by an Omaha activist about the government’s forcible removal of Indigenous tribes.

Lee Boomer2021-11-04T10:19:51-04:00
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  • Page Act, 1875
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    Page Act, 1875

Page Act, 1875

Excerpt from the Page Act, which almost completely banned Chinese women immigrants.

Lee Boomer2021-11-10T09:28:18-05:00
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  • Exodusters
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    Exodusters

Exodusters

A quilt and illustration that depicts the experiences of Black pioneers.

Lee Boomer2021-11-10T09:59:05-05:00
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