Freedom Bonds

Study the experiences of women as technology, globalization, and increasingly polarized politics shaped the nation.

Discover how women experienced and shaped immigration, industrialization, progressivism, and suffrage at the turn of the 20th century.

Consider women’s rights at the end of the 19th century as the nation redefined the boundaries and privileges of citizenship.

Consider how women of diverse backgrounds contributed to and were shaped by an era of escalating political activism and rapidly shifting social norms, from the dawn of the Cold War through the apex of the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment.

Examine what Westward Expansion meant to the diverse women living within and outside of the expanding nation’s borders, how women responded to the burgeoning immigration debate, and the roles women played in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

Discover the lives and experiences of Native American, African, and European women who encountered one another on America’s shores.

Explore dramatic shifts in American society and culture from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the dawn of the /topic/confidence-and-crises_post-war/ era.

Trace the development of colonial society and identity up through the crucible of the American Revolution.

Explore the foundation of the new nation, the ways women’s rights were suppressed under the new government, and how women were central to the formation of the new American identity.