Spanish Colonial Women and the Law — Complaints, Lawsuits, and Criminal Behavior: Documents From the Spanish Colonial Archives of New Mexico, 1697-1749, edited by Linda Tigges, translated by J.
Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, Ph.D. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1924. 8vo. xviii+204 pp. $5.00. IN spite of the position of woman in America and the extraordinary diligence which has been shown in ...
2012-07-15T02:25:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c50/306497-02-m.jpgA preview was shown of Cornell University History Professor Mary Beth Norton’s ...
In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - As mother-daughter team Velya Jancz-Urban and Ehrs Urban did the research for their memoir, "How to Survive a Brazilian Betrayal", they became obsessed with the lives of colonial ...
Nursery rhymes were a big part of our childhood. Most of us can still repeat the lines of many favorites. But do you know what some of them mean? My guess is that we have rarely taken the time to ...
The Black Women Lead project, which honors Black women from the 1700s to the present, has provided me with an opportunity to learn about a different side of American history. The stories of Black ...