A dashing young soldier comes to town, flush with victory in battle.
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The arc of herstory
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How did one Williamsburg woman make her way in the world after the Revolution? Did the promise of the Declaration of Independence improve the lives of women?
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A Place of Her Own
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Eighteenth-century women faced an array of legal and social restrictions. Enslaved women enjoyed almost no protections at all.
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Would You Send This Woman into Combat?
President Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act in 1948, allowing women to enlist in the Regular Army for the first time. But women have played a part in every American conflict since the Revolutionary War….