Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigra

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

New York Public Library Teen Book List In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women—some ensured their family's survival through their skil

A social history of the American colonial period focuses on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves, who played a

Love of Freedom explores how black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broa