Written for the atlantic monthly, rolling stone, and the new york times. Her newest book, new women in the old west, from settlers to suffragists, an untold american story, is available for purchase. If you lose the link in the chat box, its also available on our website. Youll be able to purchase the book with a 10 discount. Just make sure to use the code when checking out. Please join me in welcoming to the smithsonian, winifred gallagher. Hi winifred. Hi kathy. Thanks so much, its wonderful to be with you. Before i begin, id like to say a few words, before we begin, about mina westbye. You can see her on screen with her cousin. After homestead in north dakota. She was a Norwegian Immigrant who spoke no english at all when she arrived in the u. S. But she filed her homestead claim, lived on it for five years, and then sold it for a nice profit, which he used to start out in a new career as a photographer, with her own studio. Like the other women we will talk about tonight, she made
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about, you see a group that was called the america first committee. some of them were antisemitic, some of them were isolationist s. but they used washington s farewell address as a real avatar to work against the united states getting involved in the second world war. this hits an absurd extent when they german bund hold a rally at madison square garden. this functions as an american at nazi party rally. there is a giant poster, flag, billboard of george washington in the background. the keynote address is all someone misappropriating the text of the farewell address. this is paid for by a foreign government. so it shows how you need to be careful of the misappropriation of documents. washington is warning against foreign influence in our politics. that is one of the reasons to stay out of this. here you have a foreign government, the nazis, misappropriating the farewell address to argue against getting involved in a foreign war. so by the way, that backfires a badly on them
hardworking, determined women found unique opportunities. social, political, economic opportunities to become more equal to men by acting more as equals. all of these white, black and asian women were new to the west, but some of them and some of them native american and hispanic women they displaced also came to personify what was called the new woman. these new women rejected the 19th century s self sacrificing domesticity and anticipated the early 20th century s more liberated model of womanhood, based on the kind of independent, self-fulfilling way of life traditionally limited to men. appreciating women s experience in the west requires understanding something about their position in larger american society, which was terrible. by age-old law and custom, they were citizens in name only. they had no official place in civic life and very few legal rights. according to americas version of english common law, a married woman, a wife, became a , who was covered by or off