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  1. From Front Porch to North Portico
    date June, 1920 to November, 1920map Marion, Ohiotags Women, Politics

    Even though most historians today view Warren G. Harding as one of the worst U.S. presidents, he was a very modern and innovative thinker even before becoming president.  His presidential campaign in 1920 is a prime example of this.  What historically has been called his “front porch” campaign captured the imagination of the public.  It was the first campaign to be heavily covered by the press,...

  2. Management in the Home - Scientific Reasoning for Domestic Pursuits
    date September 8, 1954map Franklin, Ohiotags Women, 1950s

    Dr. Elaine Knowles Weaver of Ohio State University urges women to “analyze their tasks” in this article posted in the New York Time, 1954. The book cited by Dr. Weaver is “Management in the Home”, a joint effort by three female university professors that seeks to apply scientific, deductive reasoning to everyday household tasks. For the women of this book, logical reasoning is not just preferred...

  3. Journey to Freedom: The Bethany Veney Story
    date 1889map PAGE, Virginiatags Runaway Slaves, Children, Freedom, Massachusetts, Women, Slavery

    Bethany Veney recalls her time as a slave in her autobiography, The Narrative of Bethany Veney: a Slave Woman. Born into slavery Bethany had little memory of her early life, but distinctly remembered being a source of entertainment for her master by singing and dancing. Although Bethany never mentioned feelings of objectification or dehumanization, which Hartman discusses in Scenes of Subjection,...

  4. The Power of Family Bonds in a Teenage Slave Girl's Story
    date 1846 to 1866map ST LOUIS, Missouritags Women, Slavery, family

    Mattie J. Jackson wrote her story down after she has achieved her freedom in her late teenage years and published the booklet in 1866 in Lawrence, MA in order to raise money for her education. She had a restless childhood with many ups and downs due to constant changes of location with and without her family members. Actually it is more her family’s story, which she tells it in a very personal but...

  5. The Commodity of Self: A Tale from the Narrative of Elleanor Eldridge
    date March, 1794 to 1799map Kent, Rhode Islandtags Women, African American, Law, Freedom, employment, Female, Freed Slave, Liberty

    In 1815, at the very young age of ten, the heroine of our narrative, Elleanor Eldridge, lost her mother. Elleanor's life story was penned in her narrative, Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge. Elleanor was born into a very perculiar set of circumstances. Born in Rhode Island, she was the daughter of a free African-American Man and a female descendent from the Narrahganset tribe. The death of Elleanor’s...

  6. Something from Nothing: How Kate Drumgoold Directed Her Own Future
    date 1870map CHESTERFIELD, Virginiatags Education, Slavery, Women, African-Americans

    Kate Drumgoold walked through the door of the school room, the fee for her education in one hand and a Bible in the other. The funds her church had raised to put her through school had been stolen from her, but her passion had not been taken along with it. Saving up her earnings to pay for her schooling had been difficult, but her dream of one day being able to teach fellow former slaves to read and...

  7. The Greenville Baptist Female College: A Gendered Education
    date 1857 to 1858map GREENVILLE, South Carolinatags Greenville Womans College, Greenville Female College, Greenville, SC, Women's colleges, South Carolina, Baptist Convention, Women

    Mary Mauldin, a member of the first graduating class of the Greenville Baptist Female College, would have been exposed to variety of subjects throughout her academic training. According to her college’s 1857 catalog, Mary would have taken a course of study much like that of her brothers at nearby Furman during her senior year. She would have taken advanced courses like history, botany, moral and...

  8. Stained-Glass Sally: The Memorializing of Captain Sally Tompkins
    date September 10, 1961map Henrico, Virginiatags Reconstruction, Civil War, Women, Medicine/Health

    With the Angel of Mercy to guide and guard her, Captain Sally Tompkins gazes into the congregation of Saint James Episcopal Church located in Richmond, Virginia.  This stained-glass window was installed on September 10, 1961 to honor Captain Tompkins for her extraordinary service to the Confederacy during the Civil War.  The window features Captain Tompkins dressed in a conservative purple dress...

  9. Captain Sally Tompkins Defends Top Civil War Hospital
    date June 9, 1864map HENRICO, Virginiatags Medicine/Health, Health/Death, Science/Technology, Civil War, Women

    Filling a pressing need for medical services, Sally Tompkins established a hospital after the First Battle of Bull Run that became the best hospital during the Civil War.  Running the hospital was not always easy; Tompkins faced pressure from many people to close down the hospital.  In June of 1864, Dr. Carrington, an inspector of hospitals for the South, filed an order to have the Robertson Hospital...

  10. Slave Sarah Frances Shaw Graves Recalls an Unjust Whipping
    date 1860map NODAWAY, Missouritags African-Americans, Slavery, Women

      Sarah Frances Shaw Graves was born a slave in Missouri. She was interviewed in her later years as a part of the slave narratives taken when she was free. One story she related was of a Sunday when she attended a wedding for her master’s kinfolks. The bride walked into the church and someone kicked dust onto the bride’s dress, but it was not Graves. She, however, got blamed for it and the master’s...

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