Historical researchers quickly learn that the evidence they seek is often scarce, partial, misleading; and that it is always inconclusive. Investigates how to mute personal reactions to historical evidence in order to let the evidence speak for itself. Attempts to research the life of Betsey Stockton, a black woman born into slavery who rose to…

Author concentrates not on the fiery anarchism for which "Red" Emma Goldman was internationally famous, but on the dilemmas of an anarchist-educator as reflected in her attitude toward children. (Editor/RK)

At a time when female education remained, at best, an afterthought, how were nineteenth-century women prepared to assume positions of responsibility in national organizations? An examination of the early life of Lucretia Mott, a spirited Quaker minister of that time, seems to suggest one set of answers. (Author/RK)