Primary Sources - United States: Women

This introductory reader in American politics and government and political communication explores fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric, from the Declaration of Independence to today. Selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from the founders to elected public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives of historic movements for social change.

An anthology of womens writings.

Over 200 documents ranging from diaries, letters, medical records, wills, and much more. Four parts covering aspects of the life cycle: Girl, Adult Woman: Personal Life, Adult Woman: Work, and Older Woman.

Collection of women's primary documents, thematically arranged.

Over 400 letters organized by time period. Subject index in the back.

Part intellectual history, part advice book, and part polemic, this collection of original essays and poetry presents a defense and celebration of the achievements--moral, material, intellectual, and artistic--of black women in Victorian America. Writing as a Christian, a mother, and a wife, Mrs. Mossell held exemplary models of black womanhood before the public eye, called for the end to caste and color discrimination, and challenged the so-called "cult of true womanhood." A source of instruction and inspiration in its own time, The Work of the Afro-American Woman today remains a valuable document of black American cultural and intellectual history and forges a powerful link between past and present.