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The Daring 19th-Century Reformers Who Sought to End Prostitution by Offering Financial and Emotional Support to Urban Sex Workers
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...
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Growth of Cities
urban and rural. In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in ...
The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women in the United ... states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century.