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Adventurous Women
The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During the Civil War, Katharine …
Spies! Women in the Civil War
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling …
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II
"Colman expertly explores the enormous changes in the lives of women in their own homes and beyond. The strengths of this book are in the happy combination of abundant primary …
Too Old For a Babysitter
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
In the spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a …
Thanksgiving
Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, Americans celebrate with a Thanksgiving meal. But what is the origin of this tradition? Did it really begin when the Pilgrims and …
A Woman Unafraid
Breaking the Chains
Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "e;confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens …