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(0)Winifred Conkling
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the events of the 1848 escape attempt by Emily Edmonson, her siblings and dozens of other enslaved people on board the Pearl, discussing the contributions made by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily's subsequent education and her history-changing teaching career.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Profiles more than eighty women who have served in the United States armed forces throughout history, highlighting the accomplishments and courageous acts of brave women like Margaret Corbin, Harriet Tubman, Tammy Duckworth, and Clara Barton.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the years, Gloria Steinem is perhaps the single-most iconic figure associated with women's rights, her name practically synonymous with the word "feminism." Documenting everything from her boundary-pushing journalistic career to the foundation of Ms. magazine to being awarded the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Winifred Conkling's Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life is a meticulously researched biography that is sure to satisfy even the most...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Has science shoved parents out of the nursery? Judging from the steady stream of headlines, one would think biologists have discovered a gene for every aspect of behavior. Now, Winifred Conkling reassures us that there's still room to help our children reach their personal best. In clear, compassionate language, Conkling tells parents how to make practical use of the latest research on early brain development, offering invaluable advice on how to:
• Create...
8) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Language
English
Description
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.