Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures
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Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures

  1. 289 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures

About this book

Who are the girls that helped build America?

Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls' contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls.

Exploring American Girls' History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation's story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being "American."

This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.

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Yes, you can access Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures by Ashley E. Remer,Tiffany R. Isselhardt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Museum Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9798765168523
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Museum Studies

Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Preface Why Girls?
  3. Timeline of Objects
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction Finding Girls in American History
  6. Part I IN SEARCH OF HOME, 9500 BCE TO 1590s CE
  7. 1 Xaasaa Na’ (Upward Sun River), Alaska, c. 9500 BCE
  8. 2 Hāʻena State Park, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, c. 1000 to 1400 CE
  9. 3 Mound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois, c. 1050 CE
  10. 4 “The Display with Which a Queen-Elect Is Brought to the King,” 1564
  11. 5 Virginia Dare Monument, Roanoke Colony, North Carolina, 1587
  12. Part II HER AND ME—OTHERNESS IN THE NEW WORLD, 1600 CE TO 1770 CE
  13. 6 Pocahontas Statue, Jamestown, Virginia, 1607
  14. 7 Samuel Parris Archaeological Site, Danvers, Massachusetts,1692
  15. 8 Mary Wright’s Sampler, ca. 1754
  16. 9 Mary Jemison Statue, Letchworth State Park, New York, 1758
  17. 10 Phillis Wheatley Statue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1760s
  18. Part III BECOMING “AMERICAN,” 1770s TO 1840s
  19. 11 Anna Green Winslow’s Diary, 1771
  20. 12 Sybil Ludington Statue, Carmel, New York, 1777
  21. 13 Sacajawea Statue, Salmon, Idaho, 1804 to 1806
  22. 14 Bill of Sale for a Girl Named Clary and Runaway Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs, 1806 to 1835
  23. 15 Pantaloons, 1833
  24. 16 Patty Reed’s Doll, 1846 to 1847
  25. Part IV RECKONING, 1850s TO 1860s
  26. 17 Lime Rock Lighthouse, Newport, Rhode Island, 1858
  27. 18 Belle Boyd House, Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1861
  28. 19 Reminiscences of My Life in Camp by Susie King Taylor, 1864
  29. 20 “Vinnie Ream at Work,” 1866
  30. 21 Poems and Translations by Emma Lazarus, 1866
  31. Part V HOPE, 1870s TO 1910s
  32. 22 “Group in Bathing Costumes” by Alice E. Austen, 1885
  33. 23 Water Pump at Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, Alabama, 1887
  34. 24 Statue of Annie Moore, Ellis Island, New York, January 1, 1892
  35. 25 Portrait of Georgia Rooks Dwelle, 1904
  36. Part VI STRIFE, 1870s TO 1910s
  37. 26 Photograph of Princess Kaʻiulani, 1881
  38. 27 “Indian Girls Dressed for a Ball Game,” 1904
  39. 28 “Sadie Pfeifer” by Lewis Hine, November 30, 1908
  40. 29 Dormitory at Angel Island, California, 1910
  41. Part VII BECOMING “MODERN” AMERICAN GIRLS, 1910s TO 1940s
  42. 30 Girl Scout Pledge Card, 1917 to 1918
  43. 31 Paper Doll of Clara Bow, 1920s
  44. 32 Cashay Sanitary Puffs, ca. 1934
  45. 33 Stand Up and Cheer! Dress Worn by Shirley Temple, 1934
  46. 34 “Jumping Rope on Sidewalk” by Edwin Rosskam, April 1941
  47. Part VIII VOICES, 1940s TO 1950s
  48. 35 Elizabeth Kikuchi’s Letter to Clara Breed, May 25, 1942
  49. 36 Seventeen Magazine, 1944
  50. 37 Patty-JoDoll, 1945 to 1949
  51. 38 Monument to the Westminster Case Children, Westminster, California, 1945 to 1947
  52. 39 Transportation Token from Montgomery, Alabama, March 1955
  53. 40 Barbie Teen-Age Fashion Model, 1959
  54. Part IX REVOLUTIONS, 1960s TO 1970s
  55. 41 “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by The Shirelles, 1960
  56. 42 Kachina Doll, 1964
  57. 43 Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, 1970
  58. 44 Mary Beth Tinker’s Black Armband, 1965 to 1969
  59. 45 “Peggy Oki” by Pat Darrin, 1975
  60. Part X GIRL POWER, 1980s TO THE PRESENT
  61. 46 Selena Quintanilla Memorial, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1995
  62. 47 Dominique Dawes’s Leotard, 1996
  63. 48 Rookie Yearbook One, 2011
  64. 49 GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine, 2012
  65. 50 Letter by Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer and Photograph of Mari Copeny, 2016
  66. Afterword The Future of American Girlhood
  67. Notes
  68. Selected Bibliography
  69. Index
  70. About the Authors