Women's History

The pre-Civil War textile industry in Lowell, Massachusetts exemplified the American industrial revolution and heralded a shift from farm to factory. During this time, innovation, capital, entrepreneurship, new industrial organization, and labor provided by the "mill girls" propelled large-scale manufacturing in an important U.S. industry. Mill Girls of Lowell gives insight into the role of the mill girls in the story of modernization and industrialization.

ISBN: 978-1-932663-15-0      Price: $7.95      Pages: 70     

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This popular anthology of letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, poetry, and illustrations tells a small part of the story of the colonial women and wives of the British and Hessian forces who contributed to both sides of the war effort. Most women carried on with their daily tasks at home, but many took strong action by boycotting British goods, or following their men into war -- as cooks, nurses, and care-givers. Some, like Deborah Sampson, disguised herself as a man, and joined the battle. Whether famous, like Martha Washington and Molly Pitcher, or less known, like the Hessian Baroness yon Riedesel, the records of these women add insight into the role of the "not so weaker sex" during the Revolution.

ISBN: 1-878668-73-0      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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In this fascinating account of women engaged in both sides of the Civil War, Phyllis Raybin Emert sets the stage for the primary sources included here with insightful essays and introductions to each section. The anthology begins with a moving excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and goes on to a series of excerpts from Union and Confederate spies, soldiers, and nurses including such well known figures as Harriet Tubman, Belle Boyd, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as the women working tirelessly on the home front. The roles of "First Ladies," Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis are both noted.

ISBN: 1-878668-45-5      Price: $7.95      Pages: 68     

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