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How Did Women's Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828-1856?

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?

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How Did Women Sculptors Contribute to and Draw Support from the Antislavery and Woman's Rights Movements, 1855-1875?

How Did Gender and Family Divisions among Shoeworkers Shape the 1860 New England Strike?

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Why Did African-American Women Join the Woman's Christian Temperance Union between 1880 and 1900?

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Elizabeth Glendower Evans and Progressive Reform: From Minimum Wage to Sacco and Vanzetti and the American Civil Liberties Union, 1907-1938

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How Was the Relationship between Workers and Allies Shaped by the Perceived Threat of Socialism in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910? How Did Cross-Class Alliances Shape the 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike? How Did Elisabeth Freeman's Publicity Skills Promote Woman Suffrage, Antilynching, and the Peace Movement, 1909-1919? The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living? How Did Belle La Follette Oppose Racial Segregation in Washington, D.C., 1913-1914? How Did the National Woman's Party Fund Its Activities, 1913-1940? How Did Women Activists Promote Peace in Their 1915 Tour of Warring European Capitals? How Did Animosity Between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett Shape the Movement to Legalize Birth Control? Why Did the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Campaign against Chemical Warfare, 1915-1930? Why Did Congressional Lobbying Efforts Fail to Eliminate Contraception from Obscenity Laws, 1916-1937? What Lobbying Tactics Did Suffragists Use to Obtain Congressional Approval of a Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1917-1920? What Infant and Maternal Health Services Did Middle-Class Clubwomen Provide for Immigrant Women and Children in New York City, 1917-1920? How Did Texas Women Win Partial Suffrage in a One-Party Southern State in 1918? How Did Black Women in the NAACP Promote the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923? How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924? How Did the Republican Party Respond to Woman Suffragists' Entry into Electoral Politics, 1919-1926? Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s: How Was the Debate Shaped by the Expansion of the American Military? Who Won the Debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s?

How Did Women Shape the Presentation of Norwegian American Ethnicity at the 1925 Norse-American Centennial?

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How Did Rank and File Women Construct the "New Negro Woman" within the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s? What Perspectives Did African American Advocates Bring to the Birth Control Movement and How Did Those Perspectives Shape the History of the Harlem Branch Birth Control Clinic? How Did Women Shape the Discourse and Further Interracial Cooperation in the Worldwide Mass Movement to Free the Scottsboro Boys? How Did Women Needleworkers Influence New Deal Labor Policies in Puerto Rico? How Did Mexican Working Women Assert Their Labor and Constitutional Rights in the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike? How Did the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Chinese Garment Workers Unite to Organize the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike?
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