The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Editor/Author
Felder, Deborah G.
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-57-859636-2
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count:
532
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This essential book illustrates the important events and figures surrounding the suffrage movement; literature, art, and music; business leaders and breakthroughs; political history and office holders; advances in science and medicine; and other vital topics.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Sources
- Timeline
- Introduction
- The Arrival of Women in America
- The Arrival of Women in America
- Women and the First European Settlements
- Colonial Women in America
- The Arrival of Women in New England
- Courtship, Marriage, and Motherhood in the Colonies
- The Struggle for Equality: The First Women's Rights Movement
- The Abolitionist Movement and Equal Rights for Women
- The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
- Seneca Falls to the Suffrage Movement
- The Final Battle for Suffrage
- The Suffrage Parade of 1913
- American Women Win the Right to Vote
- Biographies
- Women at Work
- Women at Work
- The Mill Girls
- The First Women's Labor Movement
- Early Twentieth-Century Women's Labor Movement
- Garment Workers and the Great Uprising
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- The Protocol of Peace
- Women at Work in Wartime
- “We Can Do It!”: World War II
- The President's Commission on the Status of Women
- Biographies
- The Second Women's Rights Movement
- The Second Women's Rights Movement
- Literature and Liberation
- National Organization for Women
- The Miss America Protests
- The Equal Rights Amendment
- The Legalization of Abortion
- Postfeminism
- Biographies
- Literature
- Literature
- Biographies
- Art and Applied Arts
- Art and Applied Arts
- Biographies
- Media and the Performing Arts
- Music, Dance and Theater
- Film
- Television
- Biographies
- Sports
- Sports
- Biographies
- Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Biographies
- Politics, Government, and the Law
- Politics, Government, and the Law
- Biographies
- Religion
- Religion
- Biographies
- Activists for Social Change
- Activists for Social Change
- The Temperance Movement
- The Settlement Movement
- The Woman's Peace Party
- The Birth Control Movement
- Biographies
- Education
- Education
- Biographies
- Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
- Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
- Biographies
- The Military
- The Military
- Biographies
- Explorers
- Explorers
- Biographies
- Further Reading
- About the Author
- Also from Visible Ink Press