From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocation

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Explores the whole range of social issues surrounding the education of women in the southern US during the first half of the 19th century. Noting that women's c

Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and vulnerability of women after the upheavals of Reconstruction, female activists in Georgia advocate

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices,