In this interesting book, the author gives a fairly comprehensive history of the cultural development of the United States with particular emphasis upon the changing status of women which he regards, not as an isolated trend, but as related to the civilization as a whole. He shows how European cultural patterns, brought by the colonists, were gradually modified as this country developed it's own culture.

He discusses the varied opportunities which opened up to women in different sections of the country. Thus, as New England developed industrially, women began to find occupation outside the home; pioneering women of the west always had more freedom; and the position of women in the south was determined