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These 11 essays on the struggle of American women for the suffrage depict the efforts in popular culture to restore to America's national past the story of how women got the vote. They illuminate aspects of the battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920.

An exploration of Latinas in the United States from the 1800s, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of fifteen remarkable individuals who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. This anthology profiles Victoria Reid, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, and more.

These 11 essays on the struggle of American women for the suffrage depict the efforts in popular culture to restore to America's national past the story of how women got the vote. They illuminate aspects of the battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920.

Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.

Theda Perdue offers a collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the 17th century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries.

This study examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the 1960s, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights, to the student and women's movements, and to the Johnson presidency.

This study examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the 1960s, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights, to the student and women's movements, and to the Johnson presidency.

In 'Sifters', the first volume in the 'Viewpoints on American Culture series, Native American and women's historian Theda Perdue brings together a group of scholars to introduce the lives of Native American women through individual biographies. They ranging chronologically from colonial times to the present.

This collection of 12 original essays brings together two themes of American culture - law and race. Cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.

In this volume in the Viewpoints on American Culture series, senior and junior scholars, as well as one former Reagan official and a leading record executive, assess the cultural, social, economic, and political significance of the 1980s.

In this volume in the Viewpoints on American Culture series, senior and junior scholars, as well as one former Reagan official and a leading record executive, assess the cultural, social, economic, and political significance of the 1980s.