Elizabeth Cobbs
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn't leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John to "remember the ladies" when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed, and women have been fighting for their rights ever since.
Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most."―Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried
This passionate and inspiring book by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hello Girls shows us that the quest for women's rights is deeply entwined with the founding story
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female "wire experts" when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops...
Author
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017!
"A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton..." —Cosmopolitan
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate...
"A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton..." —Cosmopolitan
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate...