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Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Description
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history. Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sisters is the first major history of the pivotal role played by nuns in the building of American society. Nuns were the first feminists, argues Fialka. They became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges.
In the 1800s nuns moved west with the frontier, often starting the first hospitals and schools in immigrant...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 408 pages : map; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Lucey turns readers attention to the pioneering, innovative, and brave ways that women influenced the building of America before they had the right to vote. Through diaries, letters, and rare photographs, she evokes their struggles and indispensable contributions. 160 photos.
11) Women heroes of the American Revolution: 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
"Susan Casey gives 20 remarkable girls and women the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of biographical profiles. These women took action in many ways: as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Women Heroes of the American Revolution brings a fresh new perspective to their stories resulting from interviews with historians and with descendants of participants of the Revolution and features ample...
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed her husband's life. Alone in a new town, Lizzie grieves privately but takes comfort in her deepening friendship with Abigail Adams. Soon, word spreads of Lizzie's extraordinary midwifery and healing skills, and she beings to channel her grief into caring...
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