List of Maps and Figures
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Chapter 1: In the Beginning: North America's Women to 1750
Origin Stories
Documenting American Women: The Origin Myth of the Acoma Pueblo
Gender Frontiers
Documenting American Women: Bernal Díaz del Castillo Remembers Doña Marina
Gender and Race in the Early Settlements
Documenting American Women: The Legal Foundations of Slavery
The Daily Contours of Women's Lives
Documenting American Women: Salem Witchcraft
Transatlantic Connections

Chapter 2: Independence Gained and Lost in an Expanding Republic, 1750-1850
Revolutionary Legacies
Documenting American Women: Abigail Adams's Revolutionary Call
Populating a Continent That Was Already Populated
Documenting American Women: Cherokee Women's Petition, 1818
Documenting American Women: Eulalia Perez Remembers Mexican California
The Broad Shadow of Slavery
Documenting American Women: Harriot Jacobs on "The Trials of Girlhood" for Enslaved Women

Chapter 3: Freedom's Ferment, 1830-1865
"The Lady and the Mill Girl"
Documenting American Women: Lowell Mill Girls
The Female World of Benevolence and Reform
The Intertwined Origins of Abolition and Women's Rights
Documenting American Women: Maria W. Stewart Speaks on the "Woman Question" in Boston, 1832
Women's Civil Wars
Documenting American Women: Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of her Service as an Army Nurse
Documenting American Women: A White Southern Woman Reflects on Daily Life during the Civil War

Chapter 4: Reconstruction and Beyond, 1865-1890
Reconstructing a Fractured Nation
Documenting American Women: Anna J. Cooper's "A Voice from the South"
The Multicultural West
Documenting American Women: Mary Tape Challenges the San Francisco Board of Education, 1885
The Women's West
Documenting American Women: The Burden of Rural Women's Lives
Broader Educational Opportunities for Women
Claiming Citizenship
Documenting American Women: Mormon Women's Protest, 1886

Chapter 5: Expanding Horizons, 1890-1920
Working Women
Documenting American Women: The Story of a Glove Maker
Modern Women in the Making
Documenting American Women: Frances Willard Learns to Ride a Bicycle
Progressive Era Reform
Documenting American Women: Josephine St. Ruffin Pierre Spearheads the Black Women's Club Movement
The Final Push for Suffrage
Documenting American Women: What Margaret Sanger Thought Every Girl Should Know

Chapter 6: Modern American Women, 1920-1960
New Dilemmas for Modern Women
Documenting American Women: The Harlem Renaissance
Making Do in the Great Depression
Documenting American Women: The New Deal Comes to Northern New Mexico
A World at War
Documenting American Women: Japanese Relocation
The 1950s: The Way We Were?
Documenting American Women: Claudette Colvin, Unsung Heroine of the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 7: Feminism and Its Discontents, 1960-1992
The Revival of Feminism
Documenting American Women: Dolores Huerta and the Grape Boycott
Not So Fast, Sisters
Documenting American Women: Conservative Complaints about Title IX
Legislative Landmarks
Documenting American Women: A Hmong American Immigrant Story
A Shift to the Right
Documenting American Women: Global Feminism

Chapter 8: Our Bodies, Our Politics, 1992-2020
"The Year of the Woman" Just Keeps Happening
Women in the Military
Documenting American Women: Sexual Assaults in the Military
The Changing Terrain of Sex and Gender
Documenting American Women: The First Time Jennifer Finney Boylan Said, "I'm Trans"
Changing American Families
Documenting American Women: Why Is "Having It All" Just a Women's Issue?
Jobs and Justice
Documenting American Women: Black Women's Lives Matter
2020: A Moment of Reckoning

Appendix: The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848
Glossary
Credits
Index