15. Women in United States History (1492-1877)
Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, 1837. Turning the World Upside Down: The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held in New York City, May 9-12, 1837. With an introduction by Dorothy Sterling. New York: The Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1987. (Brief booklet documenting the meeting, reprinting proceedings of each day and recording the participation of several well-known 19th century feminists and female abolitionists, including the Grimké sisters and Lucretia Mott. Also includes excerpts from the convention pamphlet, “An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States.”) RGC: E 449 .A623 1837
Bell, Susan Groag, and Karen M. Offen, eds. Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents. Vol.1, 1750-1880. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1983. (Primary sources chronicling the public debate in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. Testimony on both sides of the central issues of motherhood, women’s legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, and the effect women’s education and work had on social stability. Documents having to do with the United States are 3, 18, 49, 50, 56, 59, 74, 75, 76, 109, 115, 116,137, 138.) RGC: HQ 1588 .W645
Blewett, Mary H. We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen’s Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England. (Documents in American Social History.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. NRG: HD 6073 .B72 U63 1991
Boydston, Jeanne, and others, eds. The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women’s Rights and Woman’s Sphere. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. RVS: HQ 1236.5 .U6 B69 1988
Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, comp. Man Cannot Speak for Her. 2 vols. New York: Praeger, 1989. (Vol. 2 has texts of speeches and other materials by early U.S. feminists, including Angelina Grimké, Elixabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Susan B. Anthony. Years covered: 1832-1920. Vo1. 1, a secondary source, is author’s critical analysis of the texts found in volume 2.) RVS: HQ 1154 .C28 1989
Cashin, Joan, E., ed. Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. RGC: HQ 1438 .S63 O973
Chapman, Helen. News from Brownsville: Helen Chapman’s Letters from the Texas Frontier, 1848-1852. Edited by Caleb Coker. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992. (Correspondence of New Englander wife of quartermaster at Fort Brown. Comments on women’s roles on the frontier, chidcare, diet, slavery, temperance, relationships between Texans and Mexicans.) PIN: F 394 .B88 C47 1992
Cott, Nancy F., ed. Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women. New York: Dutton, 1972. NRG: HQ 1410 .C68
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, ed. Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives. New York: Penguin Group, 1998. (Ten complete narratives spanning period 1682-1892. From the back cover: “The narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by women’s experiences.Many such captivity narratives were fact based but often transformed by authors or editors into spellbinding adventure stories, sentimental tales, spiritual autobiographies, or anti-Indian propaganda.”) NRG: E 85 .W85 1998
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. (Compilation of writings and speeches. Douglass was a strong supporter of women’s rights in the nineteenth century, most especially of the rights of African-American women.) RVS: HQ 1426 .D82 1976
Franklin, Penelope, ed. Private Pages: Diaries of American Women, 1830s-1970s. New York: Ballantine, 1986. (Excerpts. Diaries relevant to History 1613: Deborah Norris Logan, a Quaker who lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania 1832-1839; Eleanor Cohen Seixas, a member of a moderately prosperous Jewish family in Columbia, South Carolina, 1865-1866; Marie Barrows, northern woman living in the South, struggles to divorce one man and marry another, 1876.) NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1410 .P75 1986
Frey, Sylvia R., ed. New World, New Roles: A Documentary History of Women in Pre-industrial America. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. (Time period covered: 17th and 18th centuries.) NRG, RVS: HQ 1416 .F74 1986
Frost, Elizabeth, and Kathryn Cullen-Dupont. Women’s Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. (Covers period 1800 to 1920. Includes quotations from contemporary witnesses through memoirs, letters, and other documents of the period. CYP: JK 1898 .F76 1992
Fuller, Margaret. The Essential Margaret Fuller. Edited by Jeffrey Steele. (American Women Writers Series.) New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992. CYP: PS 2502 .S68 1992
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Other Writings. New York: Norton, 1971. (ACC catalog lists author as Margaret Fuller Ossoli.) RGC: HQ 1154 .08 1971
Gillis, Julia. So Far from Home: An Army Bride on the Western Frontier, 1865-1869. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1993. PIN: F 852 .G49 1993
Goodfriend, Joyce D., ed. Lives of American Women: A History with Documents. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1988. (Each chapter has an introduction and a conclusion, between which are five to six primary source documents. Organization is topical. Subjects are childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Documents are in chronological order. The earliest dates to the 17th century.) RVS: HQ 1410 .L58 1988
Hellerstein, Erna Olafson, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen, eds. Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1981. RGC: HQ 1599 .E5 V5 1981
Holden, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. EVC: F 591 .C79 1995 V. 8
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. EVC: F 591 .C79 1995 V. 8
Humez, Jean McMahon, ed. Mother’s First-born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. NRG: BX 9789 .W7 M68 1993
Keetley, Dawn Elizabeth, and John Charles Pettigrew, eds. Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism. Vol. 1, Beginnings to 1900. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1997. (Earliest document is dated 1637.) PIN: H 11410 .K444 1997 V. 1
Kerber, Linda K., and Jane De Hart-Mathews, eds. Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1426 .W663 1987. (Another edition, with the same call number, is CYP, NRG, and RGC.)
Krichmar, Albert. The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States, 1848-1970: A Bibliography and Sourcebook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972. RGC: HQ 1410 .K75 1972
Langley, Winston E., and Vivian C. Fox, eds. Women’s Rights in the United States: A Documentary History. (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. (Documents 1-64 are relevant to this course.Many of the documents have been excerpted.) NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1236.5 .U6 W68 1994
Lerner, Gerda, ed. The Female Experience: An American Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. NRG: HQ 1410 .L375 1992
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman: A Documentary History. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1981. NRG: HQ 1172 .M372 1981
Martin, Wendy, ed. The American Sisterhood: Writings of the Feminist Movement from Colonial TImes to the Present. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. (Authors and subjects having to do with History 1613: Anne Hutchinson, Sarah Grimké, Seneca Falls Convention, Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, Lucretia Mott, Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Frances Wright, and Margaret Fuller.) RGC, RVS: HQ 1426 .M37
McPhee, Carol, ed. Feminist Quotations: Voices of Rebels, Reformers, and Visionaries. New York: Crowell, 1979. (Entries are organized by subjects.Under each subject, the quotations appear in chronological order. The earliest quotation is from 1776.) NRG, RGC: HQ 1154 .F446 1979. (The NRG copy does not circulate.)
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Cynthia Russett, and Laurie Crumpacker, eds. Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Vol. I: From the Sixteenth Century to 1865. Vol. II: From 1865 to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. CYP, RGC: HQ 1410 .S43 1993
Papachristou, Judith. Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women’s Movement in the United States. New York: Knopf, 1976. (Coverage begins in the 1830s.) NRG, RGC: HQ 1426 .P34
Rakow, Lana. F. and Cheris Kramarae, eds. The Revolution in Words: Righting Women, 1868-1871. (Women’s Source Library.) New York: Routledge, 1990. (Selections from The Revolution, a radical periodical of the Western woman’s movement. Founded 1868. Edited and published by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Parker Pillsbury. Subjects include forced maternity, male domination of church and politics, the suffrage struggle, racism, child-care issues, anti-feminist men and women, etc.) NRG: HQ 1423 .R48
[Research Publications.] Women in America. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1995. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection of primary sources related to women’s history in America.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.)
Rossi, Alice S., ed. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. NRG, RGC: HQ1154 .R746
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. Edited by Ellen Carol Dubois. New York: Schocken Books, 1981. NRG, RGC, RVS: HQ 1412 .S72. (A revised edition, with slightly different title and different publication data, is at PIN.)
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. RGC: E 185.86 .W43 1984
Stone, Lucy. Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93. Edited by Carol Lasser and Marlene Deahl Herrill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. RVS: HQ 1413 .S73 A45 1987
Stone, Lucy, and Henry B. Blackwell. Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853-1893. New York: Dial Press, 1981. RVS: HQ 1413 .S73 A46 1981
Sullivan, Walter, ed. The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South. Nashville, Tenn.: J. S. Sanders, 1995. EVC: E 605 .W275 1995
Thomas, Ella Gerdrude Clanton. The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton. Ed. by Virginia Ingraham Burr. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. (Diary of a Georgia woman.) NRG, RGC: F 213 .S43 1990
Tinling, Marion, comp. With Women’s Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 1775-1918. Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1993. (Selections of writings by women travelers visiting in the United States.) RVS, RGC: E 161.5 W57 1993
Waggenspack, Beth Marie. The Search for Self-sovereignty: The Oratory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Great American Orators, Number 4.) New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. (Part I of this work is a secondary source anaylysis, with many excerpts from Stanton’s speeches and writings. Part II is a collection of seven complete Stanton speeches.) RVS: HQ 1426 .W33 1989
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers. Edited by Lauren Cook Burgess. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (At least 400 women disguised themselves as men and served in the armed forces of the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War. This is the only known published collection of primary source materials from one of them. Seemingly, the letters make no mention of the author being a woman.) PIN: E 628 .W35 1995
(See also: The Colonial Era; Era of the American Revolution; Early National Period, 1789-1828; Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Sectionalism, 1829-1861; The Civil War, Reconstruction, The Frontier and the West; Texas History before Annexation.)