Women in History
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Schiot, Molly [Schiot, Molly]
LISA OLSON Though Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke won equal access for female reporters to team locker rooms in 1978, change was slow to come. Harassment and humiliation by male ...
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Women in History
December 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Dava Sobel
PART THREE In the Depths Above I saw in the stars a chance to observe phenomena beyond terrestrial scope. Nothing seemed impossible in those early days; we were going to ...
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State & Local
December 8,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Jason Porath [Porath, Jason]
• ART NOTES • Dhat al-Himma is here pictured swinging into battle. This was one of her trademarks—unlike her straightforward son, Abd al-Wahhab, she would sneak up on her enemies. ...
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Women in History
November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
Chapter Sixteen “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue Varian Fry arrived in Marseilles on 15 August 1940, carrying a short list of two hundred notable artists, writers, musicians, “immediately ...
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U.S. Presidents
November 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter L. Laurence [Laurence, Peter L.]
“Pavement Pounders and Olympians” In April 1956, a few months after Jacobs came to understand East Harlem’s plight, she presented an enthusiastically received paper at the first Urban Design Conference ...
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Women in History
September 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Lowry [Lowry, Richard]
Dedication Ceremonies, by Alexander Gardner, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 (illustrations credit 3.17) ONE account of Lincoln’s speech tells of the crowd’s distraction by a photographer hurrying to get his camera ...
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U.S. Presidents
September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kumari Jayawardena
Women in the Left Movement In the early 1930s, a Youth League of radical nationalists and socialists was formed with branches all over Sri Lanka to agitate for national independence. ...
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Nationalism
September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher
• • • STEAM POWER HAD IMPROVED postal service for most Americans by the late nineteenth century, but others, particularly in the western outback, remained beyond the pale. Letters that ...
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Colonial Period
August 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Holly Bellebuono
It remains unclear if the Salernitan women were popular healers and midwives, or if they included a corps of respected and educated physicians, or even if they included Trota or ...
( Category:
Women
July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Katrine Marcal
CHAPTER TEN In which we see that you aren’t selfish just because you want more money Nancy Folbre, a feminist professor of economics, often tells this tale: Once there were ...
( Category:
Theory
July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-04 | Author:Carolyn Marvin [Marvin, Carolyn]
The law regarding concealment repeated in the preface to the Reverend Shurtleff’s execution sermon for Sarah Simpson. Courtesy of the New Hampshire Historical Society. In the published laws of 1759 ...
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United States
July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Leaming
Nine Four weeks after Billy waded ashore in the rain from his landing craft on June 23, 1944, he could no longer pretend with Kick that their latest parting would ...
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Great Britain
June 27,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Yeonmi Park
Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category:
Women in History
June 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott
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 ...
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Political
June 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]
* * * 1. Another wealthy Hyde Park boy who attended Groton some years after FDR had moved on recalled how hard it had it been for him to adjust ...
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U.S. Presidents
May 31,2016 )
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