Women in History
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Polly Vacher

The MSR stove doubled as an engine heater which I regularly practised using so that I could quickly set it up in Antarctica. The fuel problem which had been niggling ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Jane M. Friedman

It should be noted that Myra did not assert that the low quality of many of the justices of the peace was due to political trade-offs within the appointing board ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-18 | Author:Hanawalt, Barbara A.;

8 Women as Entrepreneurs Women’s economic activities included entrepreneurship and work in various occupations. Women’s work was essential for the medieval economy in both the rural and urban areas, but ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Smithsonian Institution & Jill Lepore & Victoria Pope & Christine Schrum

Camilla Gottlieb carried documents, like her certificate of release from a concentration camp. In the black leather valise (left) that she took on her 1946 journey to the United States. ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Fahs, Alice;

Zona Gale (Wisconsin Historical Society, image ID: 11760) Most of Gale’s stories did not involve “stunts,” however. As a “regular” reporter she wrote urban sketches, covered strikes, did interviews, and ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-21 | Author:Jad Adams

Soon it was officially considered that the position of women in Soviet Russia was ‘resolved’ and the Zhenotdel was abolished in 1930. In fact, despite having equal voting power with ...
( Category: History & Theory March 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Alex Beam

Mies and McCormick were likewise hoping to domesticate the glass house design, in their case for suburban tract homes. However, the absence of a basement and air-conditioning meant the McCormick ...
( Category: Design & Construction March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Bonnie J. Morris [Morris, Bonnie]

As the 1950s bled into the 1960s, a decade of assassinations and the escalating American war in Southeast Asia, many women turned to antiwar organizing through groups like Women Strike ...
( Category: Women in History March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Spearing, Sinead;

Chapter 9 The Problem of Truth St Augustine of Canterbury (534-604 AD) carried on the work of his namesake and came to Hwicce country in the summer of 603 within ...
( Category: Women in History March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Nancy F. Cott

AT THE FIRST crest of Personal History’s success in March 1935, Sheean acquired a “girlfriend,” in his own word. He fixed his eye on Diana Forbes-Robertson—called Dinah—daughter of a famous ...
( Category: Media & Internet March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Sam Maggs & Jenn Woodall

CHAPTER 4 SCIENTIST SQUADS Women have had to fight for every right they’ve been granted—even the right to fight for their own education. First taking on incredible odds even to ...
( Category: Women in History March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Minchin, Timothy J.;

CHAPTER NINE Big Visions and Big Hopes The Early Sweeney Years The early Sweeney years were a remarkable time. Hitting the ground running, the new administration poured resources into organizing, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

13. Excerpt from Jackson’s 1816 letter to John Coffee, wherein Jackson charges his erstwhile friend, Gen. William Carroll, with “wanton wickedness and depravity of heart.” Courtesy the Tennessee Historical Society ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Bricklin

Not everyone believed Campbell’s version of what happened that evening. On Tuesday, January 12—two days after the alleged attempt on Polly Pry’s life—the Rocky Mountain News published its assessment of ...
( Category: Women in History March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wake-Walker, Edward [Wake-Walker, Edward]

CHAPTER 9: KEEPING HOUSE IN SUSSEX When the war ended and normal family life resumed at Bignor Manor, Barbara Bertram found to her dismay that she could not sleep. As ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )