Life Story: Elizabeth Key Grinstead (ca. 1630 – ca. 1665)
This is the story of a sachem of the Pocassett people who led her warriors in support of Metacom/King Philip’s war against the Puritans.
Life Story: Cockacoeske (unknown – 1686)
This is the story of a sachem of the Pocassett people who led her warriors in support of Metacom/King Philip’s war against the Puritans.
Life Story: Isabel Hernández (ca. 1602-12 – unknown)
The story of the wife of the governor of New Mexico, who was arrested by the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Women’s Labor Agreements
Queen Isabella I’s instructions on the governance of Hispaniola in 1501 were the blueprint for the development of the Spanish colonies of the Americas.
Life Story: Tecuichpotzin “Isabel” Moctezuma (ca. 1509 – 1551)
The story of the wife of the governor of New Mexico, who was arrested by the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Diary of Úrsula de Jesús
Queen Isabella I’s instructions on the governance of Hispaniola in 1501 were the blueprint for the development of the Spanish colonies of the Americas.
Life Story: Juana, la Virreina de Matudere
The story of the wife of the governor of New Mexico, who was arrested by the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Petition for Freedom
Queen Isabella I’s instructions on the governance of Hispaniola in 1501 were the blueprint for the development of the Spanish colonies of the Americas.
Populating the Colonies
Excerpts from the French legal code governing enslaved people that deal specifically with enslaved women and reproduction.
Media Treatment of Monica Lewinsky
Media Treatment of Monica Lewinsky Newsstand with Lewinsky covers Jon Levy, Newsstand photo, 1999. Jon Levy/AFP via Getty Images. Poll: Public remains unsympathetic to Lewinsky “Poll: Public remains unsympathetic to Lewinksy,” AllPolitics, March 5, 1999. Monica Lewinsky took an unpaid summer internship at the White House in 1995 after she graduated from college. Later that year, she took on a paid position at the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with President Bill Clinton. News of the affair became public in January 1998, causing a major media stir. The House of Representatives impeached President Clinton in December 1998 over lying
