Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the Revolutionary period.

In this groundbreaking work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading ...

When Peggy McAllister learns about the Rattletop Award for "excellence in eighth grade social studies," she is determined to win it with a research paper on a Great American Hero.

Discusses women at sea throughout history in both feminine and masculine roles, including those of pirate, warrior, whaler, trader, and the greatly expanding roles of recent times.

Discusses the circumstances of New Jersey women in Revolutionary times, particularly the extent to which their lives were affected by the men's enlistment in the army and the presence of British troops.

In 1963 after her father dies, Elizabeth finds her world changing and expanding as she does volunteer work in Dominica and enters public rather than private high school.

The First Federal Congress Project (FFCP), a chartered University Research Center affiliated with the Department of History in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University, has a dual mission: collecting ...