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Doris WeatherfordPublication Details
Book1st edRoutledge2010Availability
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American Women During World War II : An Encyclopedia
In The Shadow Of The Enemy : The Civil War Journal Of Ida Powell Dulany
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edited by Mary L. Mackall, Stevan F. Meserve, and Anne Mackall SasscerPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Tennessee Press2009Availability
Ladies Of Liberty : The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
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Cokie RobertsPublication Details
Book1st Harper Perennial edHarper Perennial2009Description
In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) E176 .R634 2009 AVAILABLE
Chalked Up : Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, And Elusive Olympic Dreams
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Jennifer SeyPublication Details
Book1st edWilliam Morrow2008Description
The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV460.2.S49 A3 2008 AVAILABLE
The Muse Of The Revolution : The Secret Pen Of Mercy Otis Warren And The Founding Of A Nation
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Nancy Rubin StuartPublication Details
BookBeacon Press2008Description
In this meticulously researched biography of the first female historian of the American Revolution and our first woman playwright, Nancy Rubin Stuart depicts Mrs. Warren’s life and patriotic achievements. The sister of firebrand James “the Patriot” Otis, who first declared that “taxation without representation is tyranny,” the highly educated Mercy Otis Warren was the mother of five sons and the wife of James Warren, Speaker of the Massachusetts House and paymaster general of the Continental Army. John Adams, who was impressed with Mrs. Warren’s acumen and literary abilities, praised her “real genius” and encouraged her to write satirical plays, poems, and a history of the American Revolution. —Christine Kreiser, Managing Editor, American History Magazine “Playwright, poet, and historian, Mercy Otis Warren was both a witness to and chronicler of some of the most important events of the American Revolution. —Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University and author of A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution “‘History,’ John Adams told Mercy Otis Warren, ‘is not the province of the ladies.’ Those, as Adams learned quickly, were fighting words. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS858.W8 R82 2008 AVAILABLE
Slinging Doughnuts For The Boys : An American Woman In World War II
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James H. MadisonPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2007Links
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Elizabeth Richardson was a Red Cross volunteer who worked in a Clubmobile unit during World War II until her death in a plane crash in July 1945. Her job was to provide free doughnuts and coffee, cigarettes and gum to American soldiers on duty in England, and later in France. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) D807.U6 M24 2007 AVAILABLE
America’s Victoria Remembering Victoria Woodhull
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Zoie Films presents ; directed by Victoria WestonPublication Details
VideoTwo-disc director’s edZoie Films2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HQ1413.W66 A44 2007 AVAILABLE
Shady Ladies : Nineteen Surprising And Rebellious American Women
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Suzann LedbetterPublication Details
Book1st edForge2006Links
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Who knew Harriet Hubbard Ayer and her cosmetic concoctions predated Helena Rubenstein, and that Ayer virtually invented the newspaper advertorial? was coined by Fanny Fern, aka Sara Parton, who, unlike the better-known Nellie Bly, became the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the country. And Laura Fair was as dangerous to men as Calamity Jane ever was . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CT219 .L37 2006 AVAILABLE
Free Woman : The Life And Times Of Victoria Woodhull
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Marion MeadePublication Details
BookKnopf1976Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 W891m AVAILABLE
Amelia’s Flying Machine
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Barbara Shook Hazen ; illustrated by Charles RobinsonPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday1977Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy H492a AVAILABLE
Harriet And The Runaway Book : The Story Of Harriet Beecher Stowe And Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Johanna Johnston ; ill. by Ronald HimlerPublication Details
Book1st edHarper & Row1977Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 St892j AVAILABLE
Rachel Carson : A Twentieth-century Life
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by Ellen LevinePublication Details
BookViking2007Links
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Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, Silent Spring. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 C321Le 2007 AVAILABLE
Mr. Jefferson’s Women
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by Jon KuklaPublication Details
Book1st edA.A. Knopf2007Links
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A pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson?s relationships with women in his personal life and in American society and politics. Abigail Adams, the women of Paris, and the wife of a British ambassador figure in the first of two closing chapters that examine Jefferson?s attitudes toward women in public life. In the last chapter, Kukla draws connections between Jefferson?s life experiences and his role in defining the subordination of women in law, culture, and education during and after the American Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E332.2 .K85 2007 AVAILABLE
The Other Daughters Of The Revolution : The Narrative Of K. White (1809) And The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Fisher (1810)
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edited and with an introduction by Sharon HaleviPublication Details
BookState University of New York Press2006Links
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Presents two of the earliest autobiographies of American women. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CT3260 .O69 2006 AVAILABLE
Before They Could Vote : American Women’s Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919
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edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia WatsonPublication Details
BookUniversity of Wisconsin Press2006Links
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The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition?some well known, some forgotten over generations?who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ1412 .B44 2006 AVAILABLE
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