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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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Science, Technology, and Medicine

  • 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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  • Diary of a Midwife
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    Diary of a Midwife

Diary of a Midwife

Excerpts from a midwife’s diary reveal information about women’s role in medicine in the Federal period.

Lee Boomer2021-11-11T00:06:28-05:00
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  • Mill Girls
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    Mill Girls

Mill Girls

An advertisement for the new jobs available to women in textile factories.

Lee Boomer2021-11-02T13:40:28-04:00
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  • Life Story: Florence Merriam Bailey
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    Life Story: Florence Merriam Bailey

Life Story: Florence Merriam Bailey

A scientist and writer who studied birds and fought to protect wildlife.

Lee Boomer2021-11-03T13:07:46-04:00
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  • The Environmental Movement
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    The Environmental Movement

The Environmental Movement

Rachel Carson’s testimony before Congress about the danger of pesticides.

Lee Boomer2021-06-24T16:49:25-04:00
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  • The Pill
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    The Pill

The Pill

A case designed to hold and distribute birth control pills.

Lee Boomer2021-06-24T12:47:15-04:00
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  • Life Story: Katherine Johnson
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    Life Story: Katherine Johnson

Life Story: Katherine Johnson

The story of a mathematician whose calculations contributed significantly to the United States’ achievements in space exploration.

Lee Boomer2021-06-24T12:53:21-04:00
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  • Life Story: Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy
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    Life Story: Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy

Life Story: Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy

The story of the enslaved women who were forced to undergo experimental surgeries that laid the foundations for modern gynecology.

Lee Boomer2021-06-17T21:50:29-04:00
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  • Nursing
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    Nursing

Nursing

Four primary sources that illustrate the experiences of women nurses during the Civil War.

Lee Boomer2021-06-17T21:56:49-04:00
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  • Life Story: Elizabeth Blackwell
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    Life Story: Elizabeth Blackwell

Life Story: Elizabeth Blackwell

The story of the first woman to graduate from a U.S. medical college.

Lee Boomer2021-06-21T17:54:40-04:00
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