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Girls don’t do that. Girls shouldn’t do that. Girls can’t do that. Not very long ago, that’s exactly what many people said whenever a woman tried to play a sport or do anything athletic. Most people believed that women were too weak and delicate to play sports. Fortunately, not all women believed...
An authentic, matter-of-fact record of poverty, incredibly hard work, and loss of loved ones, but also of pleasures great and small In the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to...
Representing lawmakers and lawbreakers, artists and adventurers or scholars and activists, the women of Utah defied stereotypes. At the crossroads of the West, they found new challenges and opportunities to forge their own paths. Emma Dean explored the Rocky Mountains with her famous spouse, John...
The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and...
Dutch student Boyan Slat wanted to know one thins: Why were there more plastic bags than fish in the ocean? He didn’t see anyone else solving the problem, so he tried it himself. Learn more about Boyan’s invention, System 001, and his goal to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Book jacket.
The Pioneers Association of South Australia was established in 1935. Inaugural members were, for the most part, grandchildren of those who made the long journey to seek a better life and laid the foundations of the Province of South Australia. The purpose of the Association was to promote awareness...
In the history of missions, the career of C. T. Studd is exemplary. Grubb shows how the great sportsman renounced wealth and position to take up work for Christ—serving his Lord in China, India, and Africa.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, and she changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring star positions and sizes from photographs taken by the telescope at the Harvard College Observatory, where she worked. After Henrietta...
A biography telling the personal life and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie Robinson. Written in graphic-novel format.
This book takes an engaging look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Rachel Carson, and her work to uncover the dangers of pesticides. It covers Carson’s inspiration, her methods, findings, and the impact of her work on the environment movement.
The very name Deadwood conjures up vivid Wild West images: saloons with swinging doors, brazen dance-hall girls, buckskin-clad Calamity Jane roaming the streets with her erstwhile paramour, Wild Bill Hickok. The setting is the lawless Dakota Territory of 1876 at the start of the Black Hills gold...
The roots of the Jewish community of St. Paul, MN, were established in 1849, with the arrival of two American-born brothers from Pennsylvania. From these early pioneers the community grew and spread. Through the medium of historic photographs and stories, this book captures the remarkable evolution...
This family saga of westward migration is told through the voices of people who lived 100 years ago by means of letters, diaries, oral history and photographs. It includes a memoir of the author’s improbable discoveries as he found the stories of the grandfather he never knew. The Lawtons’ first...
As a man thinketh, so is he-thus is the biblical King Solomon often quoted by proponents of New Thought, one of the most influential native religious movements in America. Albert Amao provides an engaging and serious history of this and related movements from the eighteenth century to the present....
An insightful look at the life and legacy of a pioneer cynologist between Europe and Israel. Rudolphina Menzel (née Waltuch, 1891–1973), was a Viennese-born, Jewish chemist whose pioneering research on canine psychology, development, and behavior fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be...
“Written with grace and intelligence, researched with care. . . . Sure to inspire a new generation of pioneers.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain’s most infamous Romantic poet, became the world’s first computer programmer....
The pioneer spirit lives on… Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagons and on wide open prairies. Now Little House fans can learn more about "Half-pint" in this, the first picture book biography book of Laura...
Twelve year old Sarah Gillespie and her family struggled to make a life for themselves on the Great Plains. Crops and animals needed constant care. Neighbors depended on one another for survival. Through it all, Sarah wrote down her experiences in a diary. Read her story, and learn about the...
A biography telling the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a staunch supporter of women’s rights including women’s right to vote. Written in graphic-novel format.
Explores the school day of a pioneer child. Details about the schoolteachers, schoolhouses and learning are described. Includes an activity to connect today’s reader with the past.