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15 de jun. de 2024 · The history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history. The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. European women arrived in the 17th century and brought with them European culture and values.
Hace 3 días · Kamala Harris (born October 20, 1964, Oakland, California, U.S.) is the 49th vice president of the United States (2021– ) in the Democratic administration of Pres. Joe Biden. She was the first woman and the first African American to hold the post.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Susan Ahn Cuddy (1915−2015) was the first Asian American woman to become an officer in the U.S. Navy. She was also the navy’s first woman gunnery officer. Her career helped build the foundation for women and Asian Americans entering the U.S. military.
Hace 3 días · Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986); Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform: 1890–1935 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1991); and Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830–1900 (New ...
Hace 1 día · In November 1869, Lucy Stone, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Blackwell and others, many of whom had helped to create the New England Woman Suffrage Association a year earlier, formed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
Hace 6 días · Shirley Chisholm made history as the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 Chisholm became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Her new and enduring identity was boosted by four developments: her arrival coincided with a massive wave of European immigrants, more than 12 million, arriving by steamship from 1892-1924 to the United States through Ellis Island; Emma Lazarus' poem “The New Colossus,” written on her pedestal since 1903, popularized her role as the Mother of Ex...
