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In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed Sisterhood is powerful, and women s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful women s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays inU. S. Women's Historyrepresent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them.