Defining and Debating Equality
The Equal Rights Amendment, presented to Congress in 1923, and a broadside by the National Woman’s Party arguing in favor of the Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment, presented to Congress in 1923, and a broadside by the National Woman’s Party arguing in favor of the Amendment.
A pair of posters encouraging women to vote.
The story of a Puritan girl taken captive in a war with the French and Wabanaki.
The story of a Tongva wise woman who led a rebellion against a Spanish mission in Alta California.
The story of an enslaved Native woman caught up in the Salem witch hysteria.
The story of an enslaved black woman caught up in the hysteria of the 1741 slave uprising.
This letter demonstrates that Russian colonial efforts relied on intermarriage between Russian traders and Native women.
This drawing of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo shows the setting of Spanish efforts to convert and Europeanize Native populations in Alta California.
Margueritte Wiltz’s petition to marry a Spanish soldier captures the early expressions of white supremacy in Spanish Louisiana.
This engraving illustrates George Washington’s meeting with Seneca leader Queen Aliquippa, an important ally of the British during the French and Indian War.