Honoring the Female Pioneering Spirit
Author : Joneel R. Roley
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : College teachers
ISBN :
Author : Joneel R. Roley
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : College teachers
ISBN :
Author : Charlene Spiegelman Plattner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595181775
Down through the ages there have been countless men and women who have lived intelligent and courageous lives that didn’t even make a footnote in the history books. Such a woman is the subject of this anthology. Women like Alice King have been and will be an inspiration to generations of young women. Although she lived in “a man’s world,” Alice created a niche for herself through self-determination, intelligence, and above all, an undefeatable spirit that never waned through her 89 years of life in the Rockies (1905 to 1995). Alice is to be admired for her genuine pioneer spirit, her zest for life, and her determination to live life to the utmost. Even when her eyesight had gone and getting around was so difficult, she kept her mind active by learning and growing and doing – right to the end. This woman was a wonderful example to all of us of how a confident, active mind can remain lucid into the declining years. Her letters reflect the personal strength and determination that guided her through a long and productive life.
Author : Angella M. Nazarian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781614280392
Presents brief biographies on some of the most important women of the twentieth and twenty-first century, including Wangari Maathai, Frida Kahlo, Golda Meir, and Somaly Mam.
Author : Victor J. Danilov
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759108554
Women and Museums is a comprehensive directory of museums for, by, and about women, providing information about interpretive themes, historical significance of collections, and cultural and social relevance to women, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides and accessible format provide quick and easy ways of finding information on America's women-related museums. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1440837856
This A-to-Z compendium explores more than 150 American women activists from colonial times to the present, examining their backgrounds and the focus of their activism, and provides examples of their speeches. Throughout history, American women's oratory has crusaded for religious rights, abolitionism, and peace, as well as for Zionism, immigration, and immunization. This text examines more than 150 influential American women activists and their speeches on vital issues. Each entry outlines the speaker's motivation and provides examples of their speeches in context, supplying information about the setting, audience, reception, and lasting historical significance. This collection of women's speeches emphasizes primary sources that underscore the goals of the Common Core Standards. Entries support classroom discussion on a range of topics, from women's suffrage and birth control to civil rights and 20th- and 21st-century labor law. No other reference work compiles examples of female activism and oration across a 400-year span of history along with analysis of the speaker's intent, forum, listeners, and public and media response.
Author : Kathleen Shelby Boyett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781519362643
This volume is a wonderful addition to the editor's commitment to preserve early American history. These stories were told by persons much closer to the events than we are now. These women come alive in these pages through their stories. The accounts of women's lives on the American frontier in the 1700s that are herein contained shed real insight on the time period and on the hardships and difficulties that women in this time endured. These are the stories of the frontier "mothers" who settled Tennessee, Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, onward into Michigan, and upwards toward Canada. These women faced challenges that the modern reader will never have to face. Their courage, their fortitude, their endurance, their determination, their strength, and their loving hearts are all qualities that the twenty-first century reader can appreciate and emulate. Their ability to find joy in the beauty around them and in their loved ones can be an encouragement to each of us as we face our everyday lives. If these pioneering women had the spirit of surviving well, no matter what they faced, then certainly we can have it as well.
Author : Patricia E. Salkin
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590319840
Albany Law School has hosted an annual Kate Stoneman Day since 1994 to celebrate the first woman admitted to the Bar in New York, who was also the first woman to attend Albany Law School. This important book shares the inspiration, advice and experiences of pioneering women in the legal profession who continue to pave the way for others. Their speeches, delivered at Kate Stoneman Day and published here, are from our leading women lawyers-many of them active members of the American Bar Association as well as judges, professors and partners in major law firms. Book jacket.
Author : Andreana C. Prichard
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 162895292X
In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among disparate communities on the adjacent Tanzanian mainland. Prichard illustrates how the mission’s unique theology and the demographics of its adherents produced cohorts of African Christian women who, in the face of linguistic and cultural dissimilarity, used the daily performance of a certain set of “civilized” Christian values and affective relationships to evangelize to new inquirers. The UMCA’s “sisters in spirit” ultimately forged a united spiritual community that spanned discontiguous mission stations across Tanzania and Zanzibar, incorporated diverse ethnolinguistic communities, and transcended generations. Focusing on the emotional and personal dimensions of their lives and on the relationships of affective spirituality that grew up among them, Prichard tells stories that are vital to our understanding of Tanzanian history, the history of religion and Christian missions in Africa, the development of cultural nationalisms, and the intellectual histories of African women.
Author : Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1524762822
“With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, women pilots went aloft to serve their nation. . . . A soaring tale in which, at long last, these daring World War II pilots gain the credit they deserve.”—Liza Mundy, New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls “A powerful story of reinvention, community and ingenuity born out of global upheaval.”—Newsday When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. The brainchild of trailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country—and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran’s social experiment seemed to be a resounding success—until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women’s wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they’d forged never failed, and over the next few decades they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were—and for their place in history.
Author : Harry Clinton Green
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :