The Practice of U.S. Women's HistoryIn the last several decades, U. S. womens history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of womens history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on womens lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the