In 1990 the Coalition for Western Women's History inaugurated the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize to recognise outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the North American West. Since then, the Jensen-Miller Prize committees have considered nearly two hundred submissions, and chosen thirteen for the skill and imagination with which the authors conducted research in original materials or reinterpreted a major problem in the field. Each piece was done with grace and style, and shaped the field for future historians. The book collects these essays for the first time on...

In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women s political involvement in California s public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before suffrage, and although their tactics and objectives changed they remained deeply involved thereafter. California Women and Politics examines the wide array of women s public activism from the 1850s to 1929 including the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, trade unionism,...