Officially, American women began an organized fight for the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention convened by abolitionists Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. While the movement experienced ebbs and flows, fractious…
Mary Leslie Newton, born in 1874 and raised in Xenia, Ohio, was a prolific writer throughout her life. This exhibit focuses on one particular genre and period: letters written during her teenage years. As Jane Greer observes inGirls and Literacy in…
Soyez les bienvenus dans notre galérie virtuelle faisant affiche des diverses possibilités de s'engager, s'amuser et s'instruire dans le Midi de la France. Ce site sert de portail numérique à la ville de Montpellier et ses alentours. (A brief…
This resource looks at the Darktown series—a group of racist lithographic prints produced by the nineteenth-century firm Currier & Ives. Utilizing primary source materials from the Library of Congress, the study discusses these images in relation…
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, massive social, economic, and political shifts forced a radical reorientation of American identity. Mass immigration, rapid industrialization, and the rise of American imperialism occasioned new…
Welcome to this local German-American perspective on World War I, published shortly after the United States entered the war. These texts from the Rochester Abendpost (May 5, 1917) have never been translated. During Spring Semester 2018, a team of…