Home > History > World > Women in History
Women in History
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by Margaret A. Oppenheimer
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
Vera Brittain and the First World War by Mark Bostridge
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Bostridge

By early 1931, after nursing the new baby for six months, Vera was writing Testament of Youth almost every day, in addition to contributing a regular column to the periodical, ...
( Category: World War I March 14,2016 )
Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun's Historic Senate Campaign by Jeannie Morris
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Jeannie Morris [Morris, Jeannie]

As sister African American feminists, Carol Moseley Braun and Donna Marie Jackson were really hitting it off, and Carol was completely warmed up by the time we got to our ...
( Category: Women in History March 9,2016 )
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Martha Long

CHAPTER 15 ‘Come in,’ Sister Eleanor said, smiling and waving me in the door. I crept around the door, putting me head in and bringing me suitcase after me. ‘This ...
( Category: Irish February 15,2016 )
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Marceline Loridan-Ivens [Marceline Loridan-Ivens]

Jacqueline always sends me flowers on May 10, as if it were my birthday. Every year and that moves me very much. We’re very close, different but considerate of each ...
( Category: Holocaust February 15,2016 )
Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West
epub |eng | | Author:Vita Sackville-West

Philadelphus coronarius. Starting with philadelphus, its name ‘seems to suit it nicely, meaning brotherly or sisterly love in Greek, suggesting a purity of love distinct from any sexual passion. ‘Yet ...
( Category: England February 15,2016 )
The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-08 | Author:Stephanie Coontz [Unknown]

Consumerism, the Work Ethic, and the Family The problem of consumerism is sometimes posed as a collapse of the work ethic, often by the same people who blame women's adoption ...
( Category: Marriage & Family February 9,2016 )
Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli
epub |eng | | Author:Betty Boyd Caroli

14 LINCHPIN IN THE LAUNCH OF THE GREAT SOCIETY ON JANUARY 20, 1965, as thousands gathered on the side of the Capitol and millions more tuned in on TV to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 2,2016 )
Eleanor The Secret Queen: The Woman who put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

17 Death The dowager Countess of Shrewsbury enjoyed Edward IV’s generosity for less than two years, for she died on Sunday 14 June 1467, at the age of 63, and ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2016 )
A Very Short Introduction by Ware Susan
mobi |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Ware, Susan [Ware, Susan]

Laundry was women’s most onerous chore, an all-day affair (usually on Mondays) for which there was no remotely equivalent task for men. Since only one out of ten farms had ...
( Category: Women in History January 9,2016 )
Hitler's Heroine by Jackson Sophie
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Jackson, Sophie

8 LIVING WITH DISILLUSIONMENT Himmler’s headquarters in East Prussia were neatly arranged as Hanna paid her long-postponed visit in July 1943. It was early evening and Hanna was worried about ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]

CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
The Lost Art of Dress by Przybyszewski Linda
epub |eng | | Author:Przybyszewski, Linda [Przybyszewski, Linda]

5 Revolt The Fall of the Dress Doctors MAGAZINE WRITER HAZEL RAWSON CADES explained to her Girl Scout readers in 1927 that girls needed to choose the right handkerchief when ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 30,2015 )
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl by Patricia Melzer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Patricia Melzer [Melzer, Patricia]

A man’s hands were trying to force open my mouth; my breath was coming so fast that I felt as though I should suffocate. His fingers were striving to pull ...
( Category: European December 29,2015 )

First Prev [45] [46] [47] [48] 49 [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] Next Last