From then on, those women who were mistreated took on an idea of holding a women’s convention that discussed the mistreatments of women. In the same year, behind the scenes, she lobbied for Anderson to perform an open-air concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the then racially segregated capital — a performance since described as a " watershed moment in civil rights history". In the essay, "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History," by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich a well known Professor at Harvard University. Wilson, Robin (March 24, 2006), "A Well-Behaved Scholar Makes History" ( paywall), The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol.

Only three prizes for history had been given to women in the Pulitzer’s then seventy-five-year history, and none for a book by a woman about a woman. But they also make history by keeping diaries, writing letters, or embroidering initials on linen sheets.If society fails to learn about female scientists then how can we expect children to see science as something which a woman can do - the same applies to politics, war, activism and so much more. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich shows this is sometimes true, but also reveals that at key moments well-behaved women do make history. Dunning Prize, the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early Republic Book Prize, the William Henry Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the New England Historical Association Award. The second feminist movement took me to that library in 1981 looking for documents that might give early American women a history.

In fact, the novel ends just as Alva is embracing the idea of how she could invigorate the women’s movement in America, with Fowler offering just an author’s note at the end to summarise Alva’s achievements in that arena. Stanton’s suggestion was The Declarations of Sentiments to be based off the Declaration of Independence as a model to express the ideas eloquently. The article containing the phrase was titled “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735”.As well as opening the White House to new constituencies, she extended her duties far beyond the official residence.