Milestones in Women’s History 1607 - 1940
American and National Identity (NAT) - This theme focuses on how and why definitions of American and national identity and values have developed, as well as on related topics such as citizenship, constitutionalism, foreign policy, assimilation, and American exceptionalism. 

Anne Hutchinson (antinomianism) and the "elect" didn’t need to obey God's or man's law because they were predestined for salvation.   Antinomianism is the polar opposite of legalism, the notion that obedience to a code of religious law is necessary for salvation.

Period #3: 1754-1800 

The Early Republic, 1789-1815 

Period# 4: 1800-1848 

Women in Antebellum America, 1815-1860

Period #5: 1844-1877  

Susan B. Anthony  (1820 – 906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Period #6: 1865-1898 

Women in Postbellum Politics

Period #7: 1890-1945
Boom to Bust to War on the Homefront 1920 to 1945 

Mobilization during World War I

Alice Paul ( 1885 – 1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.  After 1920 Alice spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for her Equal Rights Amendment to secure constitutional equality for women. She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She insisted that her National Woman's Party focus on the legal status of all women and resisted calls to address issues like birth control.

19th Amendment, 1920

Margaret Sanger

flappers

Rosie the Riveter, World War II

Eleanor Roosevelt

Period #8: 1945-1980 

The Feminine Mystique, 1963

Equal Rights Amendment, 1972

Roe v. Wade, 1973

Phyllis Schlafly - Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly ( , 1924) is a semi-retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist,known for her  opposition to modern feminism, and her successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Right-to-Life Movement

Life in Colonial America

The Early Republic, 1789-1815

Women in Antebellum America, 1815-1860

Women in Postbellum America 1877 to 1920

Boom to Bust to War on the Homefront 1920 to 1945

Women's History 1940 to Present