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Title:
Scholastic encyclopedia of women in the United States
Summary:
Brief illustrated articles profile significant women in American history, including Abigail Adams, Molly Pitcher, and Nellie Bly.
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Contents:
First American women (1500s through the 1700s): Overview: Abigail Adams -- Anne Bradstreet -- Molly Brant -- Margaret Brent -- Margaret Corbin -- Mary Dyer -- Rebecca Gratz -- Barbara Heck -- Anne Hutchinson -- Mary Jemison -- Mother Anne Lee -- Lady Deborah Moody -- Judith Sargent Murray -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- Molly Pitcher -- Pocahontas -- Susanna Haswell Rowson -- Deborah Sampson -- Nancy Ward -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Martha Washington -- Phillis Wheatley -- Sarah Todd Astor -- Lydia Darragh -- Mary Katherine Goddard -- Deborah Read -- Jemima Wilkinson -- Growth and conflict (1800 through the 1880s): Overview: Louisa May Alcott -- Susan B. Anthony -- Clara Barton -- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Amelia Jenks Bloomer -- Belle Boyd -- Mary Cassatt -- Fanny Jackson Coppin -- Prudence Crandall -- Jane Croly -- Emily Dickinson -- Dorthea Dix -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Sarah Edmonds -- Margaret Fuller -- Angelina & Sarah Grimke -- Sarah Josepha Hale -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Harriet Hosmer -- Lucy Larcom -- Edmonia Lewis -- Belva Lockwood -- Mary Lyon -- Maria Mitchell -- Lucretia Mott -- Annie Oakley -- Lydia Pinkham -- Charlotte E. Ray -- Sacajawea -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lucy Stone -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Susie King Taylor -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Emma Willard -- Frances Willard -- Sarah Winnemucca -- Victoria Woodhull -- Sarah Bagley -- Gertrude Barcelo -- Catherine Beecher -- Ellen Craft -- Abigail Duniway -- Jessie Benton Fremont -- Margaret Knight -- Dolley Madison -- Esther Morris -- Vinnie Ream -- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker -- Rights of Women (1890s through the 1920s): Overview: Jane Addams -- Nelly Bly -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Willa Cather -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- Bessie Coleman -- Isadora Duncan -- Crystal Eastman -- Fannie Farmer -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Emma Goldman -- Mother Jones -- Jovita Idar de Juarez -- Helen Keller -- Florence Kelley -- Rose Knox -- Julia Lathrop -- Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Queen Lilluokalani -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Alice Paul -- Annie Smith Peck -- Dr.Mary Engle Pennington -- Mary Pickford -- Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Jeanette Rankin -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Margaret Sanger -- Dr. Anna Howard Shaw -- Bessie Smith -- Nettie Stevens -- Ida Tarbell -- Mary Church Terrell -- Madame C. J. Walker -- Ida B. Wells -- Edith Wharton -- Harriet Stanton Blatch -- Gertrude Ederle -- Isabella Stewart Gardner -- Harriet Quimby -- Tye Leung Schulze -- Maggie Lena Walker -- Hard Times, Tough Choices (1930s and 1940s) Overview: Bernice Abbott -- Dr. Hattie Alexander -- Marian Anderson -- Mary Anderson -- Doroth Arzner -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Pearl S. Buck -- Jacqueline Cochran -- Bette Davis -- Molly Dawson -- Katherine Dunham -- Amelia Earhart -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Martha Graham -- Edith Hamilton -- Edith Head -- Katherine Hepburn -- Oveta Culp Hobby -- Malvina Hoffman -- Dr. Karen Horney -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Dorthea Lange -Margaret Mead -- Agnes de Mille -- Luisa Moreno -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Frances Perkins -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Augusta Savage -- Gertrude Stein -- Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig -- Dorothy Thompson -- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- Dorothy Eustis -- Dorothy Schiff -- Rose Schneiderman -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- American Dream (1950s and 1960s): Overview: Hannah Arendt -- Joan Baez -- Elia Baker -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Maroa Callas -- Rachel Carson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Septima Clark -- Dian Fossey -- Aretha Franklin -- Betty Friedan -- Althea Gibson -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Lillian Hellman -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper -- Dolores Huerta -- Barbara Jordan -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Mary McCarthy -- Marilyn Monroe -- Grandma Moses -- Louise Nevelson -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Rosa Parks -- Leontyne Price -- Ethyl Rosenberg -- Wilma Rudolph -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Maria Tallchief -- Lila Acheson Wallace -- Mary Georgene Wells -- Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu -- Alicia Alonso -- Diane Arbus -- Peggy Fleming -- Dette Nesmith Graham -- Janis Joplin -- Coretta Scott King -- Estee' Lauder -- Carson McCullers -- Patsy Mink -- Woman Power! (1970s through the 1990s): Overview: Maya Angelou -- Romana Acosta Banuelos -- Shirley Temple Black -- Connie Chung -- Sandra Cisneros -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Celia Cruz -- Angela Davis -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Dr. Gertrude Belle Elion -- Gloria Estefan -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Jane Fonda -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Katherine Graham -- Florence Griffith-Joyner -- Mother Hale -- Patricia Roberts Harris -- Dr. Mae C. Jemison -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Billie Jean King -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Jeanne Kirkpatrick -- Maggie Kuhn -- Maya Lin -- Audre Lorde -- Wilma Mankiller -- Dr. Barbara McClintock -- Toni Morrison -- Martina Navratilova -- Jessye Norman -- Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Dr. Antonia Novello -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Dixy Lee Ray -- Janet Reno -- Dr. Sally Ride -- Faith Ringgold -- Phyllis Schiafly -- Muriel F. Siebert -- Gloria Steinem -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Twyla Tharp -- Alice Walker -- Barbara Walters -- Oprah Winfrey -- Dr. Rosalyn Yalow -- Bella Abzug -- Louise Bourgeois -- Rita Dove -- LaDonna Harris -- Juanita Kreps -- Dr. Mathilde Krim -- Nancy Lopez -- Madonna -- Beverly Sills -- Fay Wattleton.
Physical Description:
206 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Publisher:
Scholastic Reference,
Publication Date:
1996
ISBN:
9780590227926

9780590227933
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic Reference, c1996.
Call Number:
J 920 KEENAN
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