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Who Was Maria Tallchief?
Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.
Flappers and the New American Woman
Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.
Rosie and Mrs. America
Examines how popular culture during the Great Depression and later during the Second World War influenced the lives of women.
Gidgets and Women Warriors
Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1950s and 1960s and how they changed women's role in society.
War, Women, and the News
This action-packed book covers the National Football League from top to bottom, beginning to end, inside and outside—including a complete two-page profile of every team. Here sports fans will learn who "The Stork" was and why a "snot-bubbler" is even grosser than its sounds. They'll take a trip back to football's earliest days, revisit the most recent Super Bowl heroics, and lots more.
Good Girl Work
Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
Gibson Girls and Suffragists
Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women from the turn of the century through the end of World War I and how they changed women's role in society.
Society's Sisters
Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.
Ms. and the Material Girls
Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s and how they brought about major changes for women.
The Horrors of Andersonville
The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War―but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant. The diaries describe appalling conditions in which vermin-infested men were crowded into an open stockade with a single befouled stream as their water source. Food was scarce and medical supplies virtually nonexistent. The bodies of those who did not survive the night had to be cleared away each morning. Designed to house 10,000 Yankee prisoners, Andersonville held 32,000 during August 1864. Nearly a third of the 45,000 prisoners who passed through th...
