Browse Scholarly Essays - 6 results

American Women Aid Workers in Indochina in the 1960s
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written by Jessica Elkind, fl. 2005 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 20 page(s)
Although U.S. political and military efforts in Indochina ended in failure, the civilian aid workers’ record is more complicated. As the documents included in this cluster suggest, women volunteers’ time in Southeast Asia had a profound and often positive effect on their lives as well as those of some people...
written by Jessica Elkind, fl. 2005 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 20 page(s)
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La Citoyenne in the World: Hubertine Auclert and Feminist Imperialism
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written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
written by Carolyn Eichner, fl. 2004 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 22 page(s)
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Emma Willard and the Mapping of Settler Society in North America
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written by Susan Schulten, fl. 2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 14 page(s)
Emma Willard’s history and atlas are rich documents through which to explore American history as the history of a settler society. Her strong nationalism, combined with her pedagogical experimentation, forcefully influenced contemporary ideas about American history and geography. Her History of the United State...
written by Susan Schulten, fl. 2012 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 14 page(s)
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U.S. Empire, 1820-2004: United States Women Shape Political Culture in the Panama Canal Zone, 1903-1975
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written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
This document cluster explores the role that white U.S. women played in the Canal Zone, the unincorporated territory of the U.S. surrounding the Canal, from the beginning of construction in 1903 to the late 1930s. The primary sources shed light on women’s part in creating the “imperial borderland” around the...
written by Katherine Marino, 1981- (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 29 page(s)
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Women in the South African (Anglo-Boer) War, 1899-1902
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written by Elizabeth van Heyningen, fl. 2010 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 12 page(s)
To what extent was this a women's war? By 1900 British women in Britain and in some British colonies had gained partial access to the franchise and the right to decent work. Substantial numbers of British and colonial women volunteered to nurse in the South African War. Many came out as teachers in the concentra...
written by Elizabeth van Heyningen, fl. 2010 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2016), 12 page(s)
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Women Unionists in Northern Ireland, 1892-1960
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written by Pamela McKane (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 38 page(s)
The 1910s and 1920s were tumultuous decades in Ireland. They were years of great political mobilization, violence, and change. Unionist women in Ulster contributed significantly to the Unionist movement and its constitution of Ulster as distinct from the rest of Ireland culturally, religiously, politically, and ec...
written by Pamela McKane (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2017), 38 page(s)
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