Northampton Book Group - Herstory | South Hadley Public Library

1) Good wives: image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750

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This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden-and not always stoic-face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In this book we encounter the awesome burdens-and the considerable power-of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising-and, all too often, mourning-her children, and even attaining...

2) Betsy Ross and the making of America

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Miller, Marla R

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Book, Audiobook CD

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Presents a portrait of the iconic Revolutionary War figure that draws on new sources to describe the fabled creation of the first flag while reconstructing her true life behind her seamstress legend and offering insight into the roles of period artisan families.

3) First ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role

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Abrams, Jeanne E

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How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America. America's first First Ladies--Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison--had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks new ground by examining their lives as a group. From...

4) Margaret Fuller: a new American life

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Marshall, Megan

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Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle

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Explores the life and career of the 19th-century American journalist, intellectual, and advocate of personal liberation. The author tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent, Fuller took...

5) Incidents in the life of a slave girl

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Jacobs, Harriet A

Series

Oxford world's classics

6) Sojourner Truth: a life, a symbol

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Painter, Nell Irvin

7) Why they marched: untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote

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Ware, Susan

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Book, Audiobook CD, Playaway

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"Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land. For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story...