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Ordinary women, extraordinary lives : women in American history
Title
Ordinary women, extraordinary lives : women in American history / edited by Kriste Lindenmeyer.
ISBN
0842027521 (alk. paper)
0842027548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, c2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rebecca Dickinson: a life alone in the early republic / Marla R. Miller
Susanna Haswell Rowson: America's first best-selling author / Patricia L. Parker
Sacagawea: a historical enigma / Laura McCall
Caroline Healey Dall: transcendentalist activist / Helen Deese
Mary S. Gove Nichols: making the personal political / Jean Silver-Isenstadt
Eliza Johnson Potter: traveler, entrepreneur, and social critic / Wilma King
Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes: "Follow the drum" / Michele Nacy
Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey: constructing an ideal southern lady / Angela Boswell
Gertrude Osterhout: "I am independent" / Margaret Breashears
Margaret Olivia Slocum, "Mrs. Russell Sage": private griefs and public duties / Ruth Crocker
Nellie Wiegel: "How about that?!" / Katherine Osburn
Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford: between two worlds / Sue Fawn Chung
Catherine Kenny: fighting for the perfect thirty-sixth / Carole Stanford Bucy
Willie Webb: one woman's struggle for civil rights during World War II / Andrew Kersten
Ethel Thomas Herold: doing "women's work" in a Philippines at war / Theresa Kaminski
Betty Flanagan Bumpers: an "ordinary mother" dedicated to peace / Paula Barnes
Margarita "Mago" Orona Gandara: frontera muralist/artist / Miguel Juarez.
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