Articles with keyword "Women"
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Women of Influence
NEH Chairman Bruce Cole talked recently with ABC and NPR news analyst Cokie Roberts about her most recent book, Founding Mothers, and the role women played in the early days of the Republic.
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Defining Freedom
Civil War surgeon Mary Walker began her battle for equality in the women's dress reform movement.
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“Little Sure Shot”: the Saga of Annie Oakley
A new film describes how a ladylike demeanor and deadeye aim made Phoebe Anne Moses famous.
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A Patchwork of History
Eleven thousand quilts go online and offer clues about their creators.
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Teensy-Weensy, Itty-Bitty Shoes
Women's shoes in the early nineteenth century were ideal for doing nothing.
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Incognito in the Infantry
The story of Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier.
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Father Secchi's Dim View
From Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science, Renée Bergland’s NEH-supported biography of one of America’s first professional astronomers.