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Subject Index by Chapter
Part 1: 1916
Prologue, pages 3–4
Annie Oakley, in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
John Wesley Powell, explorer
Lew Wallace, Civil War general
Nellie Bly, journalist
“Woman’s place”
Chapter 1, pages 5–17
Abusiveness
Accident
Automobiles
Barn
Bicycling
Blacksmith shop
Camera
College courses
Flying machine aka plane
Haymow aka hayloft
Horse wagon
Horses
Interurbans
Ladylike activities; unladylike behavior
Lafayette
Photography
Plane
Secrets
Wabash River
Chapter 2, pages 19–25
Adventure
Broken arm
Colored beads
Cousins
Doll clothes
Fishing
Flivver
Fort Ouiatenon aka old fort
French fur traders
Horses
House painting
Indians
Model T Ford aka Flivver
Old fort aka Fort Ouiatenon
Photography
Picnic
Sandford Cox, pioneer author
Secrets
Treasure hunt
Wabash River
Yearbook
Chapter 3, pages 27–36
Abusiveness
Basketball
Blacksmiths, blacksmith shop
Books
Business
Cast removal
College
Dolls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, abolitionist and suffragette
Harriet Tubman, escaped slave and abolitionist
How to be good wives
Importance of sons
Margaret Sanger, women’s rights activist
Nellie Bly, journalist
Newspapers
Reading with discernment
Reform groups
Repair shop
Scars due to abuse
Secrets
Snobbish attitude
Summer activities
Susan B. Anthony, suffragette
Tree climbing
War between Germany and France in 1914
Women’s jobs
Chapter 4, pages 37–43
British suffragettes
Child labor
Classism
Coal mines
Expectations for women’s behavior
Fashion
Helena Hill Weed, suffragette
Human rights
Hunger strike
John Stuart Mill, nineteenth-century philosopher and politician
Lafayette Franchise League
National Women’s Party
Newspaper reporters
Poverty
Protest marches
Soda fountains
Temperance
Textile mills
Women’s legal status
Women’s suffrage
Chapter 5, pages 45–51
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams
Anne Bradstreet, poet
Anne Hutchison, colonial religious leader
Benjamin Harrison, U.S. president in 1890, from Indiana
Child labor
Constitution
Factories
John Adams, signed U.S. Constitution
Lewis Hine, photographer for National Child Labor Committee in 1908
National Child Labor Committee
Newspapers
Politics
Statehood
Temperance
“Women’s place”
Women’s suffrage
Wyoming and women’s suffrage
Chapter 6, pages 53–64
Abuse
Automobiles
Chores
Competition
Cousins
Hupmobile
Newspapers
Secrets
Truth or Dare
Wildlife
Chapter 7, pages 65–71
Abuse
Alcoholism
Chores
Church
Class distinctions
Political cartoons
Scripture
Women and politics
Women’s suffrage
Part 2: 1917
Chapter 8, pages 75–84
Anti-suffragists
Art
Business
Charles Dickens, author
Fashion
Household décor
John Henry Brown, artist
Lafayette Franchise League
Marriage
Miniatures
Newspapers
Portrait painters
Reputation
The West
Women’s suffrage
Chapter 9, pages 85–91
Child labor
Lafayette Franchise League
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Newspapers/journalism
Orphanages
Presidential inauguration
Protest marches
Protest songs
Sweatshops
Temperance
“The March of the Women”
War
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Women’s suffrage
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1917
Chapter 10, pages 93–100
Civil disobedience
Civil War
Dame Ethel Smyth, British suffragette and music composer
“Grand Picket” march
Lew Wallace, Civil War general
Marriage
Mary Winsor, suffragette
Newspapers/journalism
Presidential inauguration
Protest marches
Protest songs
Railroad travel
Washington, DC
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1917
World War I (“war in Europe”)
Chapter 11, pages 101–06
Alcoholism
Anti-German sentiment
Isolationism
Lusitania, British ship sunk by Germany during World War I
Newspapers/journalism
Political cartoons
U-boats
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1917
World War I (“war in Europe”)
Chapter 12, pages 107–15
Arthur Zimmermann, German foreign minister in 1917
Automobiles
Class distinctions
Cryptography
Expansion of women’s suffrage
Helen Gougar, Lafayette lawyer and suffragist
Indiana Supreme Court
James P. Goodrich, Indiana governor in 1917
Lafayette Franchise League
Maston–McKinley Bill
Newspapers/journalism
Partial Suffrage Act
Political revolutions
Protest songs
Voting procedures
War
Women’s roles
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1917
Zimmermann Telegram
Chapter 13, pages 117–21
American Red Cross
Anti-war sentiment
Chemical weapons
Constitutional amendments
Declaration of war on Germany
George M. Cohan, American songwriter
James Bert Garner, Hoosier chemist who invented gas masks
Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Congresswoman from Montana
Lafayette Franchise League
Letter writing
Newspapers/journalism
Popular songs
Rudyard Kipling, British author
“Sammy Girls,” Henry County women who wrote letters to World War I soldiers
Uncle Sam
Women in Congress
Women’s support of war effort
World War I
Chapter 14, pages 123–28
Army enlistment
Carte de visite
Civil War
Dime novels
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Interurban
Patriotism
Photography
Propaganda
Runaways
Uncle Sam
Chapter 15, pages 129–36
Anti-war songs
Army enlistment
Expectations for women’s behavior
Fashion
Inherited traits/genetics
Marriage
Novels
Reputation
Runaways
Traveling theater troupes
Part 3: 1918 to 1920
Chapter 16, pages 141–49
Abolitionists
African Americans
Alice Paul, suffragette
Camp Zachary Taylor
Cowardice
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, abolitionist and suffragette
Influenza
Isolationism
Margaret Sanger, suffragette
Newspapers/journalism
“No Man’s Land”
Patriotism
Segregation
Suffragettes
Susan B. Anthony, suffragette
Telegrams
Trench foot
Trench warfare
Western Front
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1918
World War I (in France)
Chapter 17, pages 151–59
American Red Cross
Automobiles
Chemical weapons
Helen Keller autobiography
Hospitals
Indiana State Soldiers’ Home
Influenza
Lafayette Franchise League
Lew Wallace autobiography
Mark Twain, author
Mustard gas
Nursing
U. S. Grant [Ulysses S. Grant] memoirs
Women’s support for war effort
Wounded soldiers
Chapter 18, pages 161–67
American Red Cross
Democracy
Lafayette Franchise League, split during World War I
Maston–McKinley Bill
National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Nursing
Patriotism
Susanna Morin Swing, suffragette
Women in the workforce
Women’s support for war effort
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president in 1918
Chapter 19, pages 169–75
African Americans
Automobiles
Doughboys
Influenza
Letter writing
National Geographic
Photography
Soda fountains
Soldiers’ homecomings
Telephones
War drives (bonds, etc.)
Chapter 20, pages 177–82
Blacksmiths
Cooking
Death
Letter writing
Post-traumatic stress
Runaways
Snobbish attitude
World War I, casualties
Wounded soldiers
Chapter 21, pages 183–89
Armistice celebrations
Constitutional amendments
Lafayette Franchise League
Post-traumatic stress
Romance/crushes
Seeing by touch
Treaty of Versailles
Women’s suffrage
Wounded soldiers
Chapter 22, pages 191–95
Academic achievements
Business
College
Cousins
General stores
High school graduation
Photography
Soldiers’ Home
Chapter 23, pages 197–205
Automobiles
Aviation
Bainbridge Colby, U.S. secretary of state in 1920
Barnstorming
Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of League of Women Voters
Fashion
James P. Goodrich, Indiana governor in 1920
Journalism
League of Women Voters
National American Woman Suffrage League
Nellie Bly, journalist
Nineteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution
Photography
Voting age
Afterword, pages 207–11
Barnstorming
British suffragettes
Double standard for boys and girls
Historical fiction
Indiana State Soldiers’ Home aka Indiana Veterans’ Home
Influenza
Lafayette
Mechanization
Nineteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution
Old fort
Runaways
Sandford Cox, pioneer author
Suffragette Movement
Technology
Wabash River
West Lafayette
Women’s issues today
Women’s march on Washington, DC, 1917
About the Author
With a master’s degree in U.S. history, Mary Blair Immel has taught at several grade levels. She is an award-winning storyteller and author of several books, including Two-Way Street (1965), a Scholastic Books’ Teenage Book Club Selection, and the IHS Press book, Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War (2005), which is read by students, grades 4 through 8, across the country. Immel also publishes widely in magazines such as American Heritage, Guideposts, and The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections.