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Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Carmen Bugan

An Audience with My Father at the Rahova Prison My turn to experience a miracle now. I thank God for my being the firstborn child of the family. The village ...
( Category: Women in History March 3,2020 )
Victorian Needlework by Kathryn Ledbetter
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Kathryn Ledbetter

NEEDLEWORK TOOLS An inventory of common needlework tools and supplies is a cornucopia of nineteenth-century British machine-made improvements or inventions specifically designed and marketed for the profitable business in needlework. ...
( Category: Needlework March 3,2020 )
The Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists by Vetter Lisa Pace;
epub |eng | | Author:Vetter, Lisa Pace;

“Truth for Authority, Not Authority for Truth”: Mott’s Antidogmatic Worldview The phrase “truth for authority, not authority for truth,” one of Mott’s favorites, is borrowed from a rather unlikely source, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 3,2020 )
Washington's Golden Age by Joseph Dalton
epub |eng | 2018-06-18 | Author:Joseph Dalton

If the changing values and priorities of society ladies in Washington could be seen in one particular figure, it was with Evelyn Walsh McLean. Her Republican views had softened, she’d ...
( Category: Women in History March 3,2020 )
Mothers of Conservatism by Nickerson Michelle M.;
epub |eng | 2012-02-03 | Author:Nickerson, Michelle M.;

Progressive education drew the first activist attacks on psychology in Southern California. Critics argued that liberal educators borrowed psychological tools from their social scientist comrades to execute their brainwashing strategy. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 3,2020 )
Scotland by Rosemary Goring
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Rosemary Goring [GORING, ROSEMARY]

Scavenging, May 1859 THE ARGYLLSHIRE HERALD Smuggling, wrecking and scavenging were a way of life in certain parts of Scotland, an engrained habit dating back even before the very first ...
( Category: Women in History March 3,2020 )
The Many Lives of Miss K by Jean-Noel Liaut
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Jean-Noel Liaut [Liaut, Jean-Noel]

19 Toto met Erica Brausen, a young German woman, in November 1946, when Brausen was vacationing in Ascona. The two women became inseparable, and during their long walks around Lake ...
( Category: Women in History March 3,2020 )
DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH by CAROLYN NIETHAMMER
epub |eng | 1977-07-15 | Author:CAROLYN NIETHAMMER

A Maricopa woman from Central Arizona displaying the individuality of a non-traditional hairdo. (By permission Sharlott Hall Historical Museum of Arizona) Women of Power LEADERS, DOCTORS, AND WITCHES The descendants ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2020 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott [Bell-Scott, Patricia]

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine & Kathleen Thompson
epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Darlene Clark Hine & Kathleen Thompson [Hine, Darlene Clark & Thompson, Kathleen]

LIFTING AS WE CLIMB The term “woman’s club” usually conjures visions of sweet-faced ladies in flowered hats sipping tea, usually because they have nothing better to do with their time ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 2,2020 )
Mother Is a Verb by Sarah Knott
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Knott

* * * I recount choice pointers from all this bookish advice-giving to the dark-haired woman, Sarah, liking her offhand calm and trading my historian’s know-how for her present-day insights. ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Frances Perkins

18. LABOR AND THE CODES The NRA was a seed bed out of which many other activities and experiments grew. It was not only an administrative enterprise, but also a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
Lincoln Reconsidered by David Herbert Donald
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

II Such, then, are the new villains of the piece. Civil War historians agree upon so few matters that one hesitates to start another controversy by questioning this universally held ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 1,2020 )
Speed Girl: Janet Guthrie and the Race That Changed Sports Forever [Kindle in Motion] by Stephan Talty
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Stephan Talty [Talty, Stephan]

But, as with Christmas, she had to wait. Once the car had been adjusted, Janet returned to her hotel to sleep. The next morning, she arrived at the track soon ...
( Category: Women in History March 1,2020 )
American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics by Julie Des Jardins
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Julie Des Jardins

THREE MONTHS LATER, in the summer of 1928, Harper’s Weekly editor Norman Hapgood wrote Missy to congratulate her on the fine quality of the Sunday Magazine, and she replied with ...
( Category: Women in History March 1,2020 )

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