Women and the American Story (WAMS)
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What is Coverture? (WAMS E01)
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Malitzen: Enslaved Interpreter for Hernan Cortés (WAMS E02)
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Thomas(ine) Hall: Gender Non-conforming in Colonial Virginia (WAMS E03)
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Elizabeth Freeman: Abolition Pioneer (WAMS E04)
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Lorenda Holmes: Loyalist Spy and American Sufferer (WAMS E05)
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Ida B. Wells: Journalist and Anti-Lynching Activist (WAMS E06)
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Zitkala-Sa: Advocate for the Rights of Native People (WAMS E07)
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Emma Tenayuca: Latina Labor Activist (WAMS E08)
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Chien-Shiung Wu: Physicist and Manhattan Project Contributor (WAMS E09)
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Women's Activism and Social Change (WAMS E10)
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New Netherland: How Two New Amsterdam Women Prevented a Colonial War (WAMS E11)
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Catalina Trico: New Netherland’s Founding Mother (WAMS E12)
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Fashionable Rebellion, Tignons: From Oppression to Creative Accoutrement (WAMS E13)
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Toypurina: Rebelling Against the Mission System (WAMS E14)
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Sojourner Truth: Fierce Warrior for Social Justice (WAMS E15)
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Harriet Robinson Scott: A Fight for Emancipation with Ramifications (WAMS E16)
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Mary Church Terrell: Championing Suffrage and Civil Rights (WAMS E17)
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Antonia Pantoja: Grassroots Organizer and Activist (WAMS E18)
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Marsha P. Johnson: Transgender Activist (WAMS E19)
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Sally Hemings: Surviving Slavery and Sexual Exploitation (WAMS E20)
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Charity and Sylvia: A Federal Era Love Story (WAMS E21)
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Sacagawea: Intrepid Indigenous Explorer (WAMS E22)
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Dolley Madison: The First First Lady (WAMS E23)
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Lozen: Fearless Apache Warrior (WAMS E24)
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Polly Bemis: Chinese Immigrant Pioneer (WAMS E25)
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Victoria Woodhull: Fighting for Women's Rights (WAMS E26)
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Changunak Antisarlook: The Reindeer Queen (WAMS E27)
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María Ruiz de Burton: Chicano Activist Writer (WAMS E28)
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Emma Goldman: Radical Activist (WAMS E29)
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Patsy Mink: Groundbreaking Congresswoman (WAMS E30)
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Edith Maude Eaton: Fostering Cultural Understanding Through Writing (WAMS E31)
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Anna May Wong: The First Chinese-American Hollywood Star (WAMS E32)
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Katherine Johnson: Trailblazing NASA Mathematician (WAMS E33)
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Fighting for Equality in the Classroom and Beyond (WAMS E34)
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Dorothy Bolden: Unionizing Domestic Workers (WAMS E35)
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Pauli Murray: Breaking Barriers of Race and Gender (WAMS E36)
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Shirley Chisholm: Confronting the Political Machine (WAMS E37)
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Angela Davis: Resisting the System (WAMS E38)
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Bella Abzug: Pioneering Feminist Icon (WAMS E39)
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Afong Moy (WAMS E40)
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Wilma Mankiller (WAMS E41)
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Yuri Kochiyama: Unyielding Voice for Justice (WAMS E42)
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Antislavery Activist (WAMS E43)
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Ernestine Rose (WAMS E44)
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Beverly LaHaye (WAMS E45)
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy: Activist for Transgender Rights (WAMS E46)
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Sarah Winnemucca (WAMS E47)
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Elizabeth Blackwell: Trailblazer for Women in Medicine (WAMS E48)
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Matilda Hughes: Fighting for Family (WAMS E49)
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Letitia Carson: Defiant Pioneer (WAMS E50)
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Kateri Tekakwitha: First North American Indigenous Saint (WAMS E51)
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Tituba: The First Accused Witch (WAMS E52)
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Harriet R. Gold Boudinot: Interracial Marriage in Early America (WAMS E53)
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Ona Judge: Self-Emancipated from the Presidential Mansion (WAMS E54)
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Susan Clark Holley: Breaking Barriers in Education (WAMS E55)
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