While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America's religious practitioners, their roles…
Source: Jarena Lee, Religious Experience (Philadelphia: 1849). Between four and five years after my sanctification,[1]…
Source: Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (Washington, D. C., 1879). We…
Source: Julia A. J. Foote, A Brand Plucked from the Fire (Cleveland, W. F. Schneider:…
Source: Susan B. Anthony, The History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. IV 1883–1900 (Indianapolis, 1902), 128–133.…
Source: Hannah Whitall Smith, My Spiritual Autobiography or How I Discovered the Unselfishness of God…
Source: Frances Willard, Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance…
Source: Fannie Lou Hamer, “We’re On Our Way,” Speech before a mass meeting held at…
Source: [Amy Eilberg], “Exploring the Link between Womanhood and the Rabbinate: Lilith Interviews the First…
Source: The Elisabeth Elliott Newsletter, November/December 1990. Men, Women, and Biblical Equality A few months…
Source: Amina Wadud, “Citizenship and Faith,” in Woman and Citizenship, Marilyn Friedman, ed. (New York:…
Source: McCarthy spoke from a prepared text, but he apparently deviated from it at points…
Source: “Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War?” G. I. Roundtable Series,…
Source: United States Army Women’s Auxiliary Corps, “73 Questions and Answers About the WAAC,” World…
Congressional Record, May 21, 1969, Extensions of Remarks E4165-6. Available from Duke University Digital Repository.…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “The Need for the Equal Rights Amendment,” American Bar Association Journal, 59…
McCarthy spoke from a prepared text, but he apparently deviated from it at points and…
Political cartoon showing the Florida Senate result of ERA vote. 1982. Black & white photoprint,…
Anti-ERA Demonstration, 1975. Black & white photonegative, 8 x 10 in. State Archives of Florida,…
The Indian’s Friend, A Monthly Published by the Women’s National Indian Association, Vol. IV, Philadelphia,…
This collection of documents presents American history from 1865 to 2009 as a series of…
Angelina Grimké, Appeal to Christian Women of the South (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836).…
Orestes Bronson, The Laboring Classes: An Article from the Boston Quarterly Review, (Boston: Benjamin H.…
Massachusetts House Document no. 50, March, l845, reprinted in John Commons, ed., A Documentary History…
[caption id="attachment_24251" align="alignleft" width="806"] Time table of the Lowell mills, to take effect on and…
Lowell Offering, April 1841 (Lowell, Mass.: Printed by A. Watson), p. 32. Courtesy American Antiquarian…
Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives, J. Adams to…
Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 25, 1871, pp. 13-15. Bound for New England.…
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: We have been speaking before Committees of the…
To the Legislature of the State of New York: "The thinking minds of all nations…
A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas…
I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman's rights.…
I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you at this time, having never before…
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the…
O Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee to temper man, We had been Brutes without…
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: The year that has elapsed since I last stood before you…
Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests, fellow…
The conscience of the people, in a time of grave national problems, has called into…
Although the Temperance cause has been in progress for near twenty years, it is apparent to…
An Act to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal…
The SPEECH of Miss Polly Baker, before a Court of Judicature, at Connecticut in New…
My dear Friend, I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations…
My dear Marquis: In reading your very friendly and acceptable letter of 21st. December 1787,…
I wish you would ever write me a letter half as long as I write…
I suppose something may be expected from me upon this charge that is befallen me,…
