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92
DIC
Barth, Edna and Cuffari, Richard, 1925. I'm
nobody! Who are you? The story of Emily Dickinson. Drawings by
Richard Cuffari. New York: Seabury Press, [1971]. Emily Dickinson
(1830-1882) was the daughter of a Massachusetts State Senator. She lived
most of her life in Amherst in a circle of highly educated and
influential people. Although she wrote poetry throughout her life, her
work did not received recognition until after her death. She is now
considered to be one of the greatest of American poets.
92 DIC
Dickenson, Donna. Emily Dickinson. Leamington Spa, UK ; Dover, NH: Berg, [1985].
Emily Dickinson (1830-1882) was the daughter of a Massachusetts State
Senator. She lived most of her life in Amherst in a circle of highly
educated and influential people. Although she wrote poetry throughout
her life, her work did not received recognition until after her death.
She is now considered to be one of the greatest of American poets.
92 DIC
McNeil, Helen, 1942. Emily Dickinson. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books,
[1986]. Emily Dickinson (1830-1882) was the daughter of a
Massachusetts State Senator. She lived most of her life in Amherst in a
circle of highly educated and influential people. Although she wrote
poetry throughout her life, her work did not received recognition until
after her death. She is now considered to be one of the greatest of
American poets.
92 DIC
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. 1st ed. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random
House, [1986]. Emily Dickinson (1830-1882) was the daughter of a
Massachusetts State Senator. She lived most of her life in Amherst in a
circle of highly educated and influential people. Although she wrote
poetry throughout her life, her work did not received recognition until
after her death. She is now considered to be one of the greatest of
American poets.
92
DIX
Colman, Penny. Breaking the chains : the crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix /. White
Hall, Va: Shoe Tree Press, [1991]. Chronicles
the life of social reformer Dorothea Dix, providing information on her
strict upbringing, her years as a teacher, her work as a Civil War
nurse, and her efforts as a lobbyist in Congress.
92
DIX
Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Stranger
and traveler : the story of Dorothy Dix, American reformer. 1st ed.
Boston: Little, Brown, [1975]. Chronicles
the life of social reformer Dorothea Dix, providing information on her
strict upbringing, her years as a teacher, her work as a Civil War
nurse, and her efforts as a lobbyist in Congress.
92 DOU
Douglass, Frederick and Gomes, Peter J. Narrative of the life of
Frederick Douglass : an American slave. New Haven, Conn: Yale
University Press,
[2001]. An autobiography of nineteenth-century former slave and
abolitionist Frederick Douglass (from the Yale edition of the "Frederick
Douglass Papers"), with an introduction by Douglass scholar John
Blassingame, historical notes for the Yale and Boston editions, and
reader responses to the first edition of 1845.
92
DUB
DuBois, William E. Burghardt, 1868-1963. The
autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois; a soliloquy on viewing my life from
the last decade of its first century. [1st ed. New York]:
International Publ ohers, [1968]. The
story of the
African American scholar and leader who helped establish the NAACP and
devoted his life to gaining equality for his people.
92
DUB
Lewis, David L. W.E.B. DuBois--biography of a race, 1868-1919. 1st ed. New York:
H. Holt, [1993]. Biography
of civil rights movement leader W.E.B. Du Bois concentrating on the
early and middle years of his long and intense career.
92
DUB
Lewis, David L. W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century,
1919-1963. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt and Co, [2000].
A pioneering
sociologist, educator, essayist, activist, and political theorist, W.E.B.
Du Bois was one of America's great intellectuals. This second volume by
David Levering Lewis picks up where his Pulitzer Prize-winning W.E.B.
Du Bois: Biography of a Race left off, chronicling his life from
1919 until his death in Ghana in 1963, on the eve of the March on
Washington. "In the course of his long, turbulent career,"
Lewis writes, "W.E.B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible
solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism--scholarship,
propaganda, integration, cultural and economic separatism, politics,
international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."
Amazon.com
92
DUB
Marable, Manning, 1950. W.E.B. DuBois, Black radical democrat / Manning Marable.
Boston: Twayne, [1986].
A pioneering sociologist, educator, essayist, activist, and political
theorist, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of America's great intellectuals. This
second volume by David Levering Lewis picks up where his Pulitzer
Prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race left off,
chronicling his life from 1919 until his death in Ghana in 1963, on the
eve of the March on Washington. "In the course of his long,
turbulent career," Lewis writes, "W.E.B. Du Bois attempted
virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century
racism--scholarship, propaganda, integration, cultural and economic
separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world
solidarity." Amazon.com
92
ELL
Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938. The life of an ordinary woman; foreword by Carol Bly ;
introduction by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1990,
1929]. The story of a woman who lived in the mining
camps and the colorful communities of the central Rocky Mountains in the
19th century. Ellis interweaves an invaluable history of the
nineteenth-century American West with a valiant personal tale.
92
FOR
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 and Crowther, Samuel. My
life and work. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page & Company,
[1993]. A biography of the engineer and industrialist, Henry
Ford, whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and
mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years
were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before
the advent of machines.
92
FOR
Yates, Elizabeth, 1905. Amos Fortune : free man; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin. New York:
Dutton, [1950]. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince
who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts
where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of
sixty.
92
FOS
Hodges, Fletcher. Swanee River and a biographical sketch of Stephen C. Foster.
S. Foster Memorial Assn, [1958]. A biography of the
first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster whose 200+ songs
including Swanee River, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Oh, Susanna,
My Old Kentucky Home, are now part of the American folk tradition that
have influences American pop culture as we know it today.
92
FOS
Emerson, Ken. Doo-dah! : Stephen Foster and the rise of American
popular culture. 1st Da Capo Press ed. New York: Da Capo Press,
[1998]. A biography of the
first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster, whose 200 songs
including Swanee River, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Oh, Susanna, and
My Old Kentucky Home, are now part of the American folk tradition.
92
FRE
Morrison, Dorothy Nafus. Under a strong wind : the adventures of Jessie Benton Frémont.
1st ed. New York: Atheneum, [1983]. A biography of the woman who along
with her husband, an Army officer, explorer, and legislator, took part
in some of the most important events of nineteenth-century America
including the exploration of the west and the formation of the
Republican Party.
92
FUE
Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952. A
celebration of birds : the life and art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
New York: Published for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
[by] Walker an, [1982]. A pictorial biography of Agassiz Furetes who is
considered to be America's greatest painter of birds (especially) and
wildlife.
92
FUL
Balducci, Carolyn. Margaret Fuller : a life of passion and defiance; with an
introduction by Anna Quindlen. New York: Bantam Books, [1991].
A woman who achieved success in many things when women were
rarely recognized for their accomplishments.
Ms. Fuller was America's first female foreign correspondent. She
covered the war in Italy and wrote on feminism.
She also influenced women who came after her who championed
women's rights and abolition. A radical thinker, she was associated with
the Transcendental movement in the 19th century.
92
GAL
Neimark, Anne E. A deaf child listened: Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in American education.
New York: Morrow, [1983]. A biography of the founder of the first
school for the deaf in the United States who, among other
accomplishments, evolved a new sign language and wrote children's books.
92
GIL
Kessler, Carol Farley and Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: her
progress toward Utopia with selected writings. 1st ed. New York:
Syracuse University Press, [1995]. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935),
a leading feminist of her time, suffered throughout her life from
reoccurring depression. This
did not stop her from carrying on her life-long career as social
activist, writer and lecturer. A
visionary before her time, she wrote extensively on birth control,
marriage, equal rights for women and other "contemporary
issues" we deal with today. his work focuses on how she developed
as a writer and how she imagined a full-blown utopia for women.
92
GIL
Lane, Ann J. To Herland and beyond : the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
1st University Press of Virginia ed. Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, [1997]. "To
Herland and Beyond" is a perceptive biography of on of America's
most important feminists. This work blends biographical and critical and
includes 14 reprinted selections from Gilman's utopian writings.
92
GAR
Katz, D. Mark and Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882. Witness
to an era : the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner : the Civil
War, Lincoln, and the West. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking,
[1991]. Documents and life and impact of nineteenth-century
photographer Alexander Gardner, known as America's first
photojournalist, and features examples of his photographs of Civil War
battlefields and soldiers, Abraham Lincoln, the execution of Lincoln's
assassin, the construction of the railroads, Indians, and other
subjects.
92
GER
Geronimo, 1829-1909 and Turner, Frederick W. Geronimo:
his own story. Edited by S. M. Barrett. Newly edited with an
introd. and notes by Frederick W. Turner, III. Ballantine, [1970]. Examines
the life of the Apache chief and freedom fighter Geronimo, who led one
of the last Indian uprisings.
In his own words we hear the other side of the Indian wars, and in the
process, learn about Apache culture.
92
GER
Debo, Angie. Geronimo: the man, his time, and his place. Oklahoma: University
of Oklahoma, c1976. Examines
the life of the Apache chief and freedom fighter Geronimo, who led one
of the last Indian uprisings. Using
Geronimo's own words, the author draws a good portrait of the man
himself, people who fought with him, and those who were imprisoned with
him after his surrender.
92 GOM
Weisberger, Bernard A. Illustrious Americans : Samuel
Gompers.
Morristown, N. J: Silver Burdett Co, [1967]. A biography of British
immigrant, Samuel Gompers, who rose through the ranks of the AFL labor
union in the U.S. Repeatedly
elected to the AFL presidency (1886-1924, he secured amnesty for
Socialists imprisoned in the U.S., vied for peace at the Paris Peace
Conference, and made the AFL separate from political programs. Shortly
before his death Gompers said: "Say
to them that as I kept the faith I expect they will keep the faith. . .
. Say to them that a union man carrying a card is not a good citizen
unless he upholds the institutions of our great country, and a poor
citizen . . . if he upholds the institutions of our country and forgets
the obligations of his trade association."
92
GOO
Gooding, James Henry and Adams, Virginia M. On
the altar of freedom : a Black soldier's Civil War letters from the
front. Warner Books ed. New York: Warner Books, [1992]. A first
person account of a black soldier who served in the 54th Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army, the most renowned
regiment of the Civil War.
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