Our mothers before us
Subtitle: women and democracy, 1789-1920 : an educational resource.
Contributors: Center for Legislative Archives (U.S.); Foundation for the National Archives.
Publisher: Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Women -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Manuscripts, American -- Facsimiles.
Genres: Sources.; Facsimiles.
Other titles: Women and democracy, 1789-1920
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (Book I, p. 33-34).
"A project of the Foundation for the National Archives and the Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration"--Book I, t.p.
Consists of explanatory texts accompanied by illustrative material (chiefly transcriptions and facsimiles of historical materials from the National Archives). A total of 30 documents are included, some as transcriptions in each book, some as facsimiles in protective archival covers inserted after each book.
Book "subtitles" appear only on the Introduction page of each Book.
Table of contents: title: Time line [an illustrated 5 p. fold-out chronology]; title: Book I. Our mothers before us : women and democracy, 1789-1920; title: Book II. The reform impulse in antebellum America, 1820-1860 : petitioning as a moral duty; title: Book III. The Civil War and the abolition of slavery, 1861-1865 : petitioning for wartime gains; title: Book IV. Reconstructing America, 1866-1879 : petitioning for civil and political rights; title: Book V. Toward a modern America, 1880-1915 : petitioning for agressive reform; title: Book VI. Suffrage won,  1916-1920 : petitioning for the Nineteenth Amendment.