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WAR
Ward, Geoffrey C.
Not for ourselves alone:
the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The intertwined stories of the two most influential women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, in the civil rights movement (suffrage) for women.
920
AME
Weisberger, Bernard A., 1922. Captains of industry, by the
editors of American heritage.1st ed. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co.; Collective
biographies of those people who expanded or were innovators in American
industry from just before the Civil War until the 1940's.
Everyone will recognize the names of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cyrus
Hall McCormick, Philip Danforth Armour, James J. Hill, Meyer Guggenheim,
James B. Duke, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and
J.P. Morgan.
920
BLI
Bliven, Bruce, 1889. A mirror for greatness : six Americans.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1975]. Six Americans who influenced society in
their day: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner
Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
The latter three may be used for the 1840 to 1910 history
project.
920
BON
Bonta, Marcia, 1940. Women in the field : America's pioneering
women naturalists. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A & M
University Press, [1991]. Biographies of women who had an influence on
the world from the mid- 1800's to the 1940's. Includes information
about: Jane Colden, Maria Martin, Graceanna Lewis, Martha Maxwell, Mary
Treat, Annie Montegue Alexander, Ellen Quillin, Kate Furbish, Kate
Brandegee, Alice Eastwood, Ynes Mexia, Mary Sophie Young, Elizabeth
Gertrude Knight Britton, Agnes Chase, Anna Botsford Comstock, Annie
Trumbull Slosson, Edith Patch, Florence Merriam Bailey, Althea Rosina
Sherman, Cordelia Stanwood, Margaret Morse Nice, Amelia Laskey, Ann
Haven Morgan, Carrie Dormon, Rachel Carson.
920
FRE
Freedman, Russell. Indian chiefs. 1st ed. New York:
Holiday House, [1987]. Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led
their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be
made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching
on their grounds. Most notable for most Americans is the warrior Sitting
Bull.
920
HAB
Haber, Louis. Black pioneers of science and invention. San
Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1991, 197].
Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who
have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and
industry: Benjamin Banneker,
Norbert Rillieux, Jan Earnst Matzeligr, Elijah McCoy, Granville T.
Woods, Lewis Howard Latimer, Garrett A. Morgan, George Washington
Carver, Percy Lavon Julian, Lloyd A. Hall, Ernest Everett Just, Daniel
Hale Williams, Louis Tompkins Wright, Charles Richard Drew.
920
LEW
Lewis, R. W. B and Lewis, Nancy. American characters : selections
from the National Portrait Gallery, accompanied by literary portraits.
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1999]. This book brings
together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong,
providing visual and verbal portraits that illuminate their place in
American life. The portraiture - painting, sculpture, photograph, or
drawing - is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts,
memoirs, poems, letters, and biographies, and with lively and
informative commentary by the editors, R. W. B. and Nancy Lewis. The
whole is a rich addition to American cultural history.
920
NOR
Parini, Jay. The Norton book of American autobiography.
New York: W.W. Norton, [1999]. Contains excerpts from the memoirs
of over sixty Americans, including Walt Whitman, W.E.B. DuBois, Helen
Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Eudora Welty, and Sherman Alexie.
920
REY
Reynolds, Moira Davison. Nine American women of the nineteenth
century : leaders into the twentieth. Jefferson, N.C:
McFarland,[1988]. Biographies of nine American women who left their
marks on American history. Features
the woman who wrote the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
welcoming immigrants to America, another who founded the American Red
Cross, the poet who wrote the words to America the Beautiful, the author
of Uncle Tom's Cabin and more. Includes information about:
Emma Hart Willard, Mary Lyon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward
Howe, Louisa May Alcott, Emma Lazarus, Helen Hunt Jackson, Clara Barton,
Katharine Lee Bates.
920
STE
Sterling, Philip, and White, Charles, illus. Four took freedom;
the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and
Blanche K. Bruce. Illustrated by Charles White. [1st
ed.]. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, [1967].
Biographical portraits of four famous African Americans who
escaped the slavery into which they were born to further the fight for
freedom and equality.
920
STO
Stoddard, Hope, 1900. Famous American women. New York:
Crowell, [1970]. Biographies of forty-two famous American women from the
19th and 20th century such as Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia
Mott, Margaret Sanger, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Gertrude Stein.
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