Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures

List of Figures
Preface: Why Girls?
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Finding Girls in American History
PART I
9500 BCE to 1590s CE - In Search of 'Home'
Xaasaa Na' (Upward Sun River), AlaskaHa'ena State Park, Kaua'i, Hawai'iMound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois"The Display with Which a Queen Elect is Brought to the King"Virginia Dare Monument, Roanoke, North CarolinaPART II
1600 to 1760s - Her and Me: Otherness in the New World
Pocahontas Statue, Jamestown, VirginiaSamuel Parris Archaeological Site, Danvers, MassachusettsMary Wright's SamplerMary Jemison Statue, Letchworth State Park, New YorkPhillis Wheatley Statue, Boston, MassachusettsPART III
1770s to 1840s - Becoming "American"
Anna Greene Winslow's DiarySybil Ludington Statue, Carmel, New YorkSacajawea Statue, Salmon, IdahoBill of Sale for a Girl Named Clary and Runaway Advertisement for Harriet TubmanPantaloonsPatty Reed's DollPART IV
1850s to 1860s - Reckoning
Lime Rock Light House, Newport, Rhode IslandBelle Boyd House, Martinsburg, West VirginiaReminiscences of My Life in Camp by Susie King Taylor"Vinnie Ream at Work"Poems and Translations by Emma LazarusPART V
1870s to 1910s - Hope
"Group in Bathing Costumes" by Alice AustenWater Pump at Ivy Green, AlabamaStatue of Annie Moore, Ellis Island, New YorkPortrait of Georgia Rooks DwellePART VI
1870s to 1910s - Strife
Photograph of Princess Kai'ulani"Indian Girls dressed for a ball game""Sadie Pfeifer" by Lewis HinesDormitory at Angel Island, CaliforniaPART VII
1910s to 1940s - Becoming "Modern" American Girls
Girl Scout Pledge CardPaper Doll of Clara Bow Cashay Sanitary Puffs"Stand Up and Cheer" Dress worn by Shirley Temple"Jumping Rope on Sidewalk" by Edwin RosskamPART VIII
1940s to 1950s - Voices
Elizabeth Kikuchi's Letter to Clara BreedSeventeen MagazinePatty-Jo DollMonument to the Westminster Case Children, Westminster, CaliforniaTransportation Token from Montgomery, AlabamaBarbie Teen-Age Fashion Model PART IX
1960s to 1970s - Revolutions
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" by The ShirellesKachina DollAre You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeMary Beth Tinker's Black Armband"Peggy Oki" by Pat DarrinPART X
1980s to Present - Girl Power
Selena Quintanilla Memorial, Corpus Christi, TexasDominique Dawes's LeotardRookie Yearbook OneGoldieBlox and the Spinning MachineLetter by Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer and Photograph of Mari CopenyAfterword: The Future of American Girlhood
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors