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ADD
Diliberto, Gioia. A useful woman : the early life of Jane Addams. New York:
Scribner, [1999]. Documents
the early life of Jane Addams, the founder of Hull House and a Nobel
Peace Prize winner, discusses her mental health, and her place in
history.
92
ALC
Meigs, Cornelia. Invincible Louisa : the story of the author of Little women. New
York, NY: Scholastic, [1988, 1933].
Presents the life of Louisa May Alcott, who was able
through the success of her writings to achieve one thing that was very
important to her--to be able to take care of all her family.
92
ALC
Saxton, Martha. Louisa May ; a modern biography of Louisa May Alcott. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, [1977]. Presents the life of Louisa May Alcott,
who was able through the success of her writings to achieve one thing
that was very important to her--to be able to take care of all her
family.
92
ALG
Gardner, Ralph D., 1923. Horatio Alger : or, The American Hero Era. New York: Arco Pub.
Co, [1978, 1971]. (1832-1899) Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was a 19th century author whose many
books (over one hundred) gave a message of hope and inspiration to
several generations of young people.
92
ANT
Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony : a biography of a singular feminist. New York:
Ballantine Books, [1990, 1988]. The author uses letters, diaries, and
other documents, to illustrate Anthony's life in 19th century America.
92
AUD
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 and Peattie, Donald Culross. Audubon's America. the narratives
and experiences of J. J. Audubon.
Houghton, [1940]. Chapters - What Audubon Knew -
Biographical Note - Audubon as a Witness - Hunter's Tales - Pioneer
Types - Deep South - Four Proud Fowl - Down East for Birds and
Subscribers - Out West with Buffalo and Indians.
92 AUD
Blaugrund, Annette. The essential John James Audubon. New
York: Wonderland
Press, [1999]. Chronicles the life of the French-born American
artist-naturalist and profiles his drawing of the plants and animals he
encountered.
See
also
On
the frontier with Mr. Audubon.
92
BET
Peare, Catherine Owens. Mary McLeod Bethune. Vanguard, [1951]. Mary McLeod
Bethune (1875-1955) was an
African American educator who became the director of the Office of
Minority Affairs of the National Youth Administration. She was also a
charter member of the National
Council of Negro Women.
92
BIL
Cline, Donald, 1931. Alias Billy the Kid : the man behind the legend. 1st ed. Santa
Fe, N.M: Sunstone Press,[1986]. Exposes popular myths and
misrepresentations of Billy the Kid.
92
BLA
Black Elk and Neihardt, John Gneisenau, 1881. Black
Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1961]. Black Elk, a Sioux
holy man, imparts his own life story and the story of the Oglala Sioux
during the tragic decades of the Custer battle, the ghost dance, and the
Wounded Knee massacre, and relates many aspects of Native American
spirituality.
92
BLA
Cazden, Elizabeth, 1950. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, a biography. 1st ed. Old Westbury,
N.Y: The Feminist Press, [1983]. This
first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to
be ordained a Christian minister is steeped in family correspondence,
contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell’s own work. Cazden
follows Blackwell from her student days at Oberlin, through her feminist
activity on the lecture circuit with Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
and Susan B. Anthony, to her marriage to Elizabeth Blackwell’s brother
Samuel (on condition he would share household responsibilities while she
worked) and rearing of five daughters
92
BLY
Kroeger, Brooke, 1949. Nellie Bly : daredevil, reporter, feminist. 1st ed. New York:
Times Books, [1994]. She
had herself committed to an insane asylum, circled the globe in 72 days,
and worked as an elephant trainer, all for a good story. Nellie Bly
(1864-1922) was the most famous female reporter of her day, and a
pioneering businesswoman (she started the first steel-barrel
manufacturing plant in the U.S).
92 BRO
Brown, William Wells and Brown, William Wells. From fugitive slave
to free man: the autobiographies of William Wells Brown.
Columbia, Mo: University of
Missouri Press, [2003]. First work originally published: 2nd ed.
Boston : Anti-Slavery Office, 1848. 2nd work originally published:
Boston : [s.n.], 1880. Originally published as a collection with
commentary: New York Mentor Books,1993. Contains two personal writings
by former slave William Wells Brown.
92
BUC
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. My
several worlds, a personal record. New York: Day, [1954].
An autobiography of Pearl Buck, an author who was born in China
of American parents. Her experiences living in China during the
Communist Revolution gave her the material for her many well-known
novels.
92
BUL
Bulosan, Carlos. America is in the heart; a personal history. Introd. by Carey
McWilliams. Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1973, 1946]. First
published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet
describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his
years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the
harvest trail in the rural West. Bulosan does not spare the reader any
of the horrors that accompanied the migrant's life; but his quiet, stoic
voice is the most convincing witness to those terrible events.
92
BUR
Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave. New
York: A.A. Knopf, [1988]. A
biography of a slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the
instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between
abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
92 CAR
Meltzer, Milton. The many lives of Andrew Carnegie. New
York: Franklin Watts, [1997]. A
biography of the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel
industry and used much of it for philanthropic causes.
92
CAR
Simon, Charlie May (Hogue) 1897. The
Andrew Carnegie story, by Charlie May Simon. Dutton, [1965]. A
biography of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), a Scottish immigrant who made
a fortune in the steel industry and used much of it for philanthropic
causes.
92
CAR
Guild, Thelma S., and Carter, Harvey Lewis. Kit
Carson : a pattern for heroes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, [1984]. Kit Carson,
a major figure in the opening of the West, began his career as a mountain
man and in later years became a trapper, an Indian fighter, a guide, a
buffalo hunter and an Indian agent.
92
CAR
Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 and Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959. Kit Carson's
autobiography /
edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska, [1966]. Recounts the life and varied
achievements of Kit Carson--the trapper, Indian fighter, guide, and
buffalo hunter until the fall of 1856.
92
CHI
Chisholm, Daniel and Shimrak, J. August. The
Civil War notebook of Daniel Chisholm : a chronicle of daily life in the
Union Army, 1864-1865 / edited by W. Springer Menge and J.
August Shimrak. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York: Ballantine Books,
[1990]. During the Civil War, Lt. James D. Cope, Company K, 116th Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers, was captured and imprisoned in the South. He kept a diary
which was passed on his
brother John Cope, who gave it to Daniel Chisholm, a 19 year old soldier
also from Pennsylvania. Chisholm
included Cope's diary notes in his own diary. A very realistic and
graphic account of the war.
92
CLA
Eaton,
Clement, 1898. Henry Clay and the art of American politics. [1st ed.]. Boston:
Little, Brown, [1957]. Henry Clay (1777-1852)
was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams and an unsuccessful
candidate for the presidency in 1824, 1832, and 1844. Despite his losses
he was one of the most popular and influential political leaders in
American history. Later in his career, because of his ability to bring
about compromise, he was known as The Great Pacificator.
92
CLA
Van Deusen, Glyndon G., 1897. Henry
Clay. Morristown, N.J: Silver Burdett Co, [1967].
A three part study of the famous American statesman of the
nineteenth century: a biography accompanied by brief anecdotes; a
section of pictures portraying life of the period in general, and Clay's
life in particular; and a compilation of excerpts from Clay's own
writings.
92 CLA
Remini, Robert Vincent. Henry Clay : statesman for the Union.
1st ed. New York:
W.W. Norton, [1991]. Presents the life and political career of Henry
Clay of Kentucky. Clay was a famous orator and served as Speaker of the
House longer than any other man in the 19th century.
92 CLA
Baxter, Maurice G. Henry Clay the lawyer. Lexington, Ky:
University Press of
Kentucky, [2000]. A biography of
Henry Clay, focusing on his activity as a lawyer in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and discussing his role in
the development of American legal practices.
92
CLE
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. Grover
Cleveland; a study in courage.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1932].
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Grover Cleveland was the only American chief executive to have
served nonconsecutive terms (1885-89 and 1893-97). He was a strong
president who brought increased power to the office.
92
CRA
McMurtry, Larry. Crazy Horse. New York: Lipper/Viking, [1999]. Examines
the life and death of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior who, having been
betrayed by the U.S. government, became the reluctant leader of his
people at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
92
CRA
Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954. The
double life of Stephen Crane. 1st ed. New York: Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, [1992]. Stephen Crane was a
nineteenth-century American writer who worked as a reporter for the New
York Times. Not satisfied to merely report the news, Crane became
involved in his stories. It is thought that he may have been attempting
to live the life his works portrayed.
92
CRO
Burke, James Wakefield. David Crockett, the man behind the myth. 1st ed. Austin, Tex:
Eakin Press, [1984]. A veteran of the Creek Indian War, Crockett was a
Tennessee frontiersman who became a member of Congress.
92
CRO
Lofaro, Michael A., 1948. Davy Crockett : the man, the legend, the legacy, 1786-1986.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, [1985]. Presents an authentic biography of frontiersman and
politician David Crockett in a deliberate attempt to separate the real
man from his mythical existence, drawing upon his own published
reminiscences and records of his participation in the legislature and
the Creek Indian War.
92
CUR
Nicolson, Nigel. Mary Curzon. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, [1977].
Mary Leiter Curzon (1870-1906) was the daughter of a Chicago businessman
who had made his fortune in dry goods and real estate. As often happened
in the 19th century, the American heiress married a British nobleman.
Years later, Lady Curzon accompanied her husband to India, where he
served as Britain's viceroy.
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CUS
Connell, Evan S., 1924. Son of the morning star. San Francisco: North Point Press,
[1984]. The story of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876).
Discusses the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the federal and
Indian antagonists, and of the battle's place in the context of the
Plains Indian Wars.
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