1. Thoughts on the History of Women's Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction
2. "She Pursued her Life-Work": The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800-1860
3. "Cruel and Wicked Prejudice": Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North
4. The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839-1850)
5. Chinese Female Students in the United States
6. The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University, 1926-1977
7. Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940
8. A Coeducational Pathway to Political and Economic Citizenship: Women's Student Government and a Philosophy and Practice of Women's U.S. Higher Coeducation Between 1890 and 1945
9. From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman's Educational Journey
10. The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States
11. Before Chicana Civil Rights: Three Generations of Mexican American Women in Higher Education in the Southwest, 1920-1965
12. Building the New Scholarship of Women's Higher Educational History, 1965-1985
13. "The Rest is All Drag": Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History
Epilogue. .