num_pages: 256
description: "I Dwell in Possibility" sweeps across three centuries of history to present a vivid gallery of women who in ways great and small shaped America's character and ideals from the country's beginnings to the early 1900s. In this wide-ranging panorama showcasing 160 paintings, photographs, and artifacts, author Donna Lucey tells a fascinating tale of women who made the nation what it is today: Puritan Anne Bradstreet, the New World's first published poet...Indian princess Pocahontas, the most mythologized early Native American...Sybil Ludington, the female Paul Revere...Civil War belle Adelicia Franklin Acklen, who turned the tragedy of war into financial opportunity...African-American Ida Wells-Barnett, whose work set the stage for Civil Rights. Meet Civil War spies; pioneer wives who brought civilization to the Old West; crusaders from abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to the 5,000 suffragists who squared off against the U.S Cavalry in 1913. Enter the homes these women made, from the sod houses of prairie pioneers to the glittering salons of Gilded Age grandes dames.This is American history as it was lived, seen, and shaped by a dozen generations of intelligent, indomitable, absolutely unforgettable women.
language: English
title: I Dwell In Possibility : Women Build a Nation
titlecomplete: I Dwell In Possibility : Women Build a Nation
genres: History, Sociology, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 32
publisher: National Geographic