A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned

The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational

Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early tw