Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume 1, From the Sixteenth Century to 186

Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences—in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values—are shown to be as important as their commonalities.

Volume 1, which comprises 153 selections, opens with a Navajo origin myth and presents Native American, Hispanic, African, and Euro-American women from the sixteenth century through the Civil War. Both volumes include section introductions that set the historical stage and comment on the significance of the selections.

• Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America
• The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
• Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume 2, From 1865 to the Present
• The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
• Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties (Gender and American Culture)
• Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930 (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
• Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents: Combined Version (2nd Edition)
• Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition
• Rape and Sexual Power in Early America