From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges: Vassar, Welles

Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in

The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who

“Stories of personal tragedy, economic hardship, and personal conviction . . . a valuable addition to both southern and women’s history.” —Journal of So

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