Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s and editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Suzanne Lebsock is Emerita Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial and The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860.

"Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887."--Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review

Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s and editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Suzanne Lebsock is Emerita Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial and The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860.

"Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887."--Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review

Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s and editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Suzanne Lebsock is Emerita Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial and The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860.

"Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887."--Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review