Mary A. Evins, research professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, is the editor of Tennessee Women in the Progressive Era: Toward the Public Sphere in the New South.Minoa D. Uffelman, professor emerita of history at Austin Peay State University, is the coeditor of three Clarksville women’s Civil War diaries, including The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy.

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• Foreword – Women in Progressive Reform in Tennessee: Constructing Citizenship, Beverly Greene Bond Preface – Mary A. Evins and Minoa D. Uffelman Introduction – Building Public Women: Expanding Voting, Active Citizenship, and Co-Creating the World in Which We Live, Mary A. Evins Education Their Highest Calling: The Progressive Ethos of Black College Women in Nashville, Crystal A. deGregory Women in Medicine and Public Health in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s, James E. K. Hildreth Associations The Woman’s Relief Corps and Patriotic Outreach in Tennessee: Black and White Women Encourage Loyalty to American Ideals, 1890–1913, Antoinette G. van Zelm “In Perpetual Remembrance”: Confederate Commemoration as Southern Progressivism, Minoa D. Uffelman Agitate, Educate, Organize”: The Tennessee WCTU and the Power of Feminist Leadership, Carole Stanford Bucy “Strength in Union”: The Ossoli Circle of East Tennessee and the Women’s Club Movement on the Road to Suffrage, Aaron Astor Nashville Clubwomen in the Progressive Era: More than the UDC, John A. Simpson The Middle Ground of Elite Women’s Study Clubs of Northwest Tennessee, Renee LaFleur “The Benevolent Order Spirit and Work Among Them”: The Role of Women in the Benevolent Society of Tennessee, Leigh Ann Gardner Service Leading the National Fight for African American Reparations Mary Frances Berry Women’s Community Care During the Great War: Philanthropy as Civic Agency in West Tennessee, 1890–1930, Alice-Catherine Carls Home Sweet Home: Clubwomen and Senior Care in Nashville, 1887–1920, Mary Ellen Pethel Creating Space for Rural Women in Tennessee Town Squares: The Ladies Rest Room, 1909–1931, Carroll Van West Suffrage Shaped by Rural Realities: Rural Tennessee Women’s Support of Suffrage, Aubrie R. McDaniel Setting the Agenda on Woman Suffrage: Tennessee Hometown Newspapers on the Vote for Women, Melony Shemberger Telling Their Own Stories: Tennessee Suffragists Constructing the History of Their Movement, Miranda Fraley Rhodes