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Gender History

1. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

   Deborah Gray White

   "Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, EmergeMore

2. Woman in the Nineteenth Century

   Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds

   The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations.More

3. Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart

   Randall Brink

   "In this book, I deal only with the truth about Amelia Earhart's last flight, a truth withheld by our government because of a tenuous peace with Japan in the Pacific and concerns for the national security at home. . . . Those who knew the truth, and held it close, knew that Earhart and Noonan had survived. They believed it was their duty to hide the truth, and so they did."—from the IntroductionMore

4. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860

   Suzanne Lebsock

   In this book, which has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century?More

5. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920

   Aileen S. Kraditor

   "An important contribution to the history of women and the intellectual history of the United States." —Carl N. Degler, Stanford UniversityMore