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Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories (edX)

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Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories (edX)
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Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. As we approach the centennial of the passage of women’s suffrage in 1920, there has been a recent burst of activism among American women. Women are running for [...]

Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War (edX)

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Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War (edX)
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Learn about the emergence of women's history and its impact on the study of history as a whole. Then, examine the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will learn the ways that women struggled to loosen the constraints of family by proclaiming that they, like men, possessed individual [...]