This is the second of two issues by Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution enfranchising American women, with the theme “Women and Gender in Pennsylvania.” As in the first issue, Linda Ries, the PH editor, and I were intent on providing work on women and gender in Pennsylvania not limited solely to the suffrage era. We have combined traditional academic articles with short vignettes to showcase the range of historical experience among Pennsylvania women, both past and present. This second series addresses some of the same issues covered in the first one, for example, suffrage and mid-nineteenth-century activism, but it also surveys the innovative approaches white women used to raise awareness about enfranchisement in Pennsylvania. It includes an article on the professional work of a female architect and an interview with a lesbian activist in Lancaster...

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