One of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political histor

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In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to

In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not

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