Women in America: Extra and Ordinary

The stories of our past are powerful tools. They can be reminders of our successes and cautions of our failures. Entirely too often our history has been written by and for the praise of white men, marginalizing women and people of color. Women in America: Extra and Ordinary is a collection of twenty-four women living from 1785-2013 in America. Some of their stories are extraordinary while others celebrate the strength of the everyday. Each aspect of representation is critical to show a comprehensive thread of women in our past that were treated as extras in America’s story. These histories honor those who identify as women and those who were designated female but self-identify differently*. Explore this collection and realize the role of chance and oversight, the need for credible and holistic sources, and varied points of view in both subject and author’s perspectives to tell the extraordinary story of women who history treated as extra and ordinary.