Each article is accompanied by illustrations, as well as a list of readings and Web sites for further research. The individual volumes surround distinct and significant themes: conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the affects of war on the daily lives of women and communities; the dynamic relations between family, labor and the market economy; womenrs"s activism and political change; sexual violence and womenrs"s agency; and the interplay of race, class and gender in the lives of women and their families and communities. These threads allow students and teachers to build on earlier readings and discussions as they move through the semester. Womenrs"s history, Slavery, family, labor, womenrs"s activism, political change, sexual violence and womenrs"s agency, race, class and gender.US Survey, Womenrs"s History Survey