Presents a history of the women's suffrage movement, and examines the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, suffrage leaders including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, and the nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to vote.
Describes the work performed by Southern women during the Civil War as nurses, spies, and soldiers and on the home front, and discusses Sherman's march.
Profiles the life of Paul Revere, silversmith and patriot, best known for his ride through the Massachusetts countryside, warning that the British were coming.
Examines the lives of some of the great women of the Old West, including Native Americans, African-Americans, Spanish settlers, and pioneers; and includes photographs and engravings, a glossary, listings of important dates and people, and an index.
Examines the roles some women played during the American Revolution including Lydia Darragh who spied for the Americans, Sybil Ludington who warned Patriots about a British attack, and Mary Hays McCauley, known as Molly Pitcher, who took her husband's place at a canon.
Presents biographical sketches of women from the period of westward expansion of the United States, including doctors, social reformers, and trailblazers.
