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Nantucket's Curious Coffins
All about the Nantucket family "Coffin", one of the founding families of the island, and one of the most influential families on Nantucket to this day.
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Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States
A brief history of the Suffragists fight for the right to vote. Lydia Taft, Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft's writings helped influence the attitudes and philosophies of nineteenth-century women's rights activitsts despite her radical and scandalous life.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woman's Rights Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped found the American woman's rights movement, led the Seneca Falls Convention, wrote The Woman's Bible and brought about change for women.
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Famous Descendants of Quaker Families
Quaker families produced many famous descendants, including politicians, artists and eight U.S. presidents.
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The Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
When the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1920, American women won the right to vote. This was a hard-won victory.
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Women's Suffrage
The rights of women have improved significantly over the course of the 20th century. Here is a brief introduction to the suffrage movement.
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From Republic to Democracy
The proclamation that all men are created equal took a long time to fulfill in a nation that originally denied political rights to all but propertied white males.
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The 19th Amendment
It all began in upstate New York in 1848 when five women organized the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
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Biography of Elizabeth Oakes-Smith
Like so many talented Americans, Elizabeth Oakes-Smith left this world without knowing the full impact of her life and work on society.
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I'm Thankful To Be A Woman
Thanksgiving Special! Why should a woman be thankful for not being a man? Even though women may have difficult issues to deal with, there are LOTS of reasons to be thankful to be a woman.
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Individualist Feminism- A Different Kind Of Women's Movement
This article outlines the history of a less well-known group of feminists, the individualist feminists, and where their libertarian spirited philosophy stands now.
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Remember the Ladies: The Women's Rights National Historical Park
1998 marked the 150th anniversary of the First Womens' Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. This brief overview provides a description and history of the Women's Rights Historical Park located in Seneca Falls, New York, authorized in 1980, to preserve and protect those sites that played such a key role during the Convention.
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Sarah Hale, Mother of Thanksgiving
If one knows that Sarah Hale is the famous author of "Mary had a Little Lamb", one may wonder, after reading this, why turkey is the mainstay of Thanksgiving Dinner!
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The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
A gathering that would spark an organized movement to change the status of women in America
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150 Years Of The Women's Rights Movement (Part 1)
1998 marks the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention. Women have a lot to celebrate about what they have achieved in such a short period of time.
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Friends (Quakers) and Women
Discussion of the role of women in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), highlighting a number of prominent Friends' women.
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William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator Roars
A look at the life of William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper, the "Liberator." This controversial man was in the midst of a heated debate not only of slave emancipation but of what freed slaves could be in our country.
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First Civil War Training Camp for Black Soldiers
Camp William Penn was the first and largest of 18 federal training camps for black soldiers, who were officially designated United States Colored Troops (USCT).
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