Uses excerpts from diaries, memoirs, letters, and newspaper accounts to depict the experiences of wartime nurses, entertainers, canteen workers, interpreters, and journalists

Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I

History

Schneider, Dorothy

Schneider, Carl J.

Americas

VIKING

Explores the changing role of women in American society in the early years of the twentieth century

American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

FACTS ON FILE+

Traces the history of the first lady, including changes in the conception of what a president's wife should do and be, and how these perceptions have been affected by changes in society overall, and includes biographies and pictures.

First Ladies: A Biographical Dictionary (Facts on File Library of American History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Checkmark Books

Covers slave ships and auctions, the "triangle trade," plantation life, insurrections, events leading up to the Civil War and emancipation, reactions to slavery, and profiles of slaves and abolitionists.

An Eyewitness History of Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War

What did it feel like to be an American during World War II and in the years that preceded and followed it? This work provides first-hand accounts of the period - from letters, speeches, and newspaper articles - that illustrate how important events appeared to those who lived through them.

World War II (Eyewitness History)

Firsthand accounts and brief biographies describe how Americans were affected by the events surrounding World War II.

An Eyewitness History of World War II

Fascinating and informative titles provide readers with in-depth biographical sketches of America's greatest political figures, their rise to power, and their unique contributions to American history.

First Ladies: A Biographical Dictionary

This work is the history of the enslavement of African Americans in North America stretches from the beginning of European colonization to the end of the Civil War. Slavery in America recounts this history, as well as the Reconstruction period that followed, by examining, chapter by chapter, many of its aspects: the slave catchers and their coffles in Africa, the crowded slave ships, slave auctions, life and labor on plantations, escape attempts and insurrections, and the Civil War and eventual emancipation. This edition also features a new chapter that extends coverage through Reconstruction to 1877 when the last Union troops withdrew from the South, addressing topics such as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments; the struggle between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans over the terms of the readmission of the seceding states to the Union and the protection of the freedpeople; the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875; and the ensuing disappointment in the hopes of the freedpeople. New photographs and maps also enhance this new edition. newspaper accounts - illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them. New eyewitness testimonies include John Brown and Frederick Douglass. In addition, each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events. The book also includes such critical documents as President Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission Final Report, the Ku Klux Klan Organization and Principles, and the Civil Rights Act of March 1, 1875, as well as 97 black-and-white photographs; capsule biographies of more than 100 key figures; 16 maps, graphs, and tables; notes; an updated bibliography; a new appendix of charts and tables; a glossary; and an index.

Slavery in America (American Experience)

Children's Books

Completely updated through the inauguration in January 2009, First Ladies, Third Edition covers all the women who have held this esteemed "office" since the founding of the United States. Featuring a new profile of current first lady Michelle Obama, this revised edition includes updates and additions to the profiles of Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. New sources have also been added to the further reading lists throughout and to the bibliography. 
 An in-depth introductory essay traces the history of the first lady, including changes in the idea of what a president's wife should do and be, and how such notions have been affected by society's changing ideas about the role of women. Arranged chronologically by term of presidency, each biographical entry includes a detailed biography emphasizing each first lady's life during the presidency, as well as a chronology, appendixes, and suggestions for further reading. Appendixes listing White House hostesses, first lady "firsts," and first ladies' reflections; a general bibliography; and an index round out this comprehensive edition.

First Ladies, Third Edition (American Political Biographies)

Biographies

Interviews with more than three hundred servicewomen document their feelings and concerns about their careers, sexual harassment, family life, and women in combat

Sound Off: American Military Women Speak Out

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