Hearts of fire: great women of American lore and legend

The hearth

Birth

Ceremonies of childbirth (Hopi)

Here's to the mothers...

Birth on the trail (1853)

Onnie Lee LOgan: This is the way I did it

The cows mooed and the horses neighed

Weighing the baby (1848)

He just ain't goin to to it

Diana and her baby

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's lesson in self-reliance

For that crippled baby I have kept an affection that is ineffaceable

Wartime birth (1966)

Birth and infancy superstitions.

Aunt Jane's quilting

Why not save mother?

Health tips in colonial america

Share and share alike

Lydia Maria Child's household hints

Advice to the victorian woman

Aunt Weed's rat letter

When her courage failed her

There's many an empty cradle

Counting your blessings

I am scareing the hogs out of my kitchen

American cooking: frontier style

Isabella Bird: Epicures at home would have envied us

All in a day's wink

Dust bowl observations

Culpepper's pride

Billie Holiday getas her start

Cowgirls carry on

Some things my ma used to say

My mother, myself.

What happens when women read to many books

Abigail Adams: We should have learned women

The end and aim of a woman's being

Ah, you should have been a boy

An early attempt at coeducation in Hartford

Overdressing of unmarried females

Mrs. Ernestine Rose: Sisters, you have a duty to perform

Lillian Hellman: The stubborn, relentless, driving desire to be alone

A business womans advice to her daughter

Daddy, teach me something

It took the bigness out of my head in a hurry

I'd rather dig ditches than go to school.

The woman who fell from the sky

The sun and the moon

The woman in the moon

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piautes

Dirty dancing

Directions for fainting elegantly

Female stocking supporters

She loves me, she loves me not

How to pick a husband

The woman and the silver box

The real truth

Mother knows best

Four winds

Courting, frontier style

Ellen Glasgow: Love at first sight

Mammy Wise

Bette Davis on desire

Tallulah Bankhead on courting

Amelia Earhardt spells it out

Katherine Hepburn on love

Tried and true courtship superstitions.

The faithful wife and the woman warrior

The crushed lily

I do

Golden rules for wives

Lucy Stone's horror of being a legal wife

Georgia marriage ceremony

Female ingenuity under pressure

On behalf of women abused

" I'd salt his coffee

Drive on

My opinions

The tale of the wedding ri ng

A joke only a wife could understand

The mountain man and the mirror

Pack down the big chest

Mother Jurenson: The queen of the bull-whackers

Tootie Brocker: Everything we do is half and half

Don't call him, he'll call you

Don't move in on my man

The eye of the beholder: Part I

The eye of the beholder: Part II

Billie Holiday: Every broad for herself

Ida Tarbell: On the business of being a woman

Tallulah Bankhead on marriage

All's weel that ends well

Miss Manners: Weddings the second time around

Marriage superstitions.

Anna Howard Shaw: Moving to the frontier

Steamboat life: Fighting the bedbugs

No rest for the weary: Frontier lodgings

Stagecoach across the prairie

Sister Blandina Segale: The cowboys were constantly in my mind

Learning on the job

Frontier mother's lament

Oh, what dreadful places

Plains burial

Life goes on

My last indian story

Incidents on the frontier

Mary McNair Matthews feeds Virginia City

The captains wife: alone on a wide, wide sea

Dorothea Balano: Just so long as we go

Young Kate Shelly saves the day

Adventures in Klondike

A tenderfoot no longer.

Abigail Adams: Remember the ladies

Tough work

A guideline for female schoolteachers

Lucy Stone: Until she bows down to it no longer

Let us have ldy doctors

Fanny Fern reviews Leaves of Grass

The girl who lovefd Lincoln's face

Enid Yandell poses the question

Beating their wings in rebellion

Susan B. Anthony's first public sprrch

Anthony and her sisters go to vote

Frances Gage goes to vote

Do you, as a woman want to vote?

Fighting back

Margaret Sanger: the early days

Elizabeth banks: Newspaper girl

Ida Lewis: the saviour of Lime Rock

Isadora Duncan: On american dance

Amelia Earhart's credo

Amelia Earhart from the inside

Amelia ans Eleanor go for a ride

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce

Caresse Crosby and James Joyce

Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday

Margaret Bourke-White: I knew now what I would not do

Mahalia Jackson sings to the folklorists

Billie Holiday knows best

Shirley McLaine on power.

Mary Read and Anne Bonney

The sins of the mother

Mother featherlegs

Mary Mahaffey's wedding night

Calamity Jane

Until Belle Starr passes

The hanging of Cattle Kate: a newspaper account

Poker Alice Tubbs

The worst of the bad

Lizzie Borden

Cordelia Botkin: a sweet murder

Miss Piggott and Mother Bronson

Burial of chloroform Kate

Cassie Chadwick, Carnegie's daughter

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Tallulah on Tallulah: a different kind of bad girl.

Warrior girl

Brave woman counts coup

Abigail's call to arms

Hannah Arnett

Lydia Darrah will not tell a lie

Mrs. Slocum saves the man of her dreams

Sara Emma Edmonds: Civil war soldier

A nurse's memory of Lincoln

I'm in need of a strong calico dress

Mother Bicherdyke speaks out

Clara Barton: Snapshots of the battlefield angel

Some of the bravest women I have ever known

Belle Boyd saves the day

Buffalo-Calf-Road Woman at the battle of the rosebud

Amelia Earhart: The memory of the planes remain clearly

I want to go to Vietnam

Flight nurses creed

I didn't want this money

It's not going to get your leg back

I hate them dying alone

Coming home

Lest we forget

Jeanette Rankin: But I cannot vote for war.