African American women of the Old West

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Here in this remarkable collection from American Heritage, such noted authors as Tom Brokaw, Wallace Stegner, John Lukac

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Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthes

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Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier,

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Interviews with African American women in prison. The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent s

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Throughout history there have been men--and women too, for that matter--who have placed themselves above and outside the

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Nana Asma'u was a devout, learned Muslim who was able to observe, record, interpret, and influence the major public

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The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prin

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Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attr

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan

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Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, Afr

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