I dwell in possibility : women build a nation, 1600-1920 / Donna M. Lucey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucey, Donna M., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

History.

United States.

Women--United States--History--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2001]

Summary:

Showcasing a gorgeous selection of 160 paintings, photographs, and artifacts, 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. Some are famous, familiar names, others unknown and unsung, but all share a spirit of independence and adventure that is uniquely, truly American. Theirs is an important, inspiring story, yet it's rarely told -- and never with the splendor and style of this stunning volume.

In these colorful pages you'll learn about the first European women to land in the New World and the Native American matriarchs who met them. You'll meet Southern belles like Adelicia Franklin Acklen who ran great plantations and sometimes amassed great fortunes, and former slaves like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, whose dignity, determination, and daring wrote stirring chapters in African-American history. Enter the homes these women made, from the sod houses of prairie pioneers to the glittering salons of Gilded Age grandes dames.

Author Donna Lucey tells an unforgettable tale of fascinating characters: 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...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.

A big, beautifully illustrated book with a remarkable tale to tell, I Dwell in Possibility is a wide-ranging panorama of our country's history as it was lived, seen, and shaped by a dozen fascinating generations of intelligent, indomitable, absolutely unforgettable women.

Contents:

Native American Women 18

Colonial Women 32

Revolutionary Women 52

Plantation Mistresses 82

Enslaved Women 112

Westering Women 142

Gilded Age Women 176

Women on the March 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

079226360X

OCLC:

46937577