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The Time of the Lincolns
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A Woman's World

A Nurse's Diary
Read excerpts by Kate Cumming, a Confederate nurse.

Speaking Out for Women's Equality
Sojourner Truth, Sarah Grimké, and Lucy Stone advocate women's rights.

Women Writers and Literary Activism
Sample the writings of Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Lydia Maria Child.

News Clippings: A Confederate Spy in Prison
Rose O'Neal Greenhow protests her unjust treatment in a Union prison to Lincoln's Secretary of State.
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