Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America, Hardcover - Karen Cook Bell

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or at...

Reducere. Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visio...

In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas....

DescriptionDiana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish re...

This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a majo...

Reducere. Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents...

Twenty remarkable men and women have their life stories told in vivid and lively detail, briefly enough to fit into a Main Lesson Eighth grade is t...

DescriptionIn 1919, in the wake of the First World War, a group of extraordinary women came together to create the Women's Engineering Society. The...

Gholsons in Early America and Their Connections with the Founding Fathers is the fifth entry in Donna Gholson Cook's well- documented family histor...

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

Reducere. Even the Women Must Fight ""Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellec...

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In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre...

A centenary tribute to Britain's trailblazing, boundary-breaking women engineers

Spiritual Warfare, the sequel to Stella Davis's first book, Giving God the Praise, provides teachings on spiritual warfare for both priests and lai...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Jo NapolitanoNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 221 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. We Are Unbreakable: Raw, Real Stories of Resilience is a collection of authentic and inspiring stories about the unprecedented year of 2020 written...

Reducere. DescriptionHow Big Do You Want to Live?Channel your black girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you...

DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

Discover powerful quotes and stories from courageous American women past and present in Bravely, a beautiful collection from the team behind Quotab...

Reducere. Does God really hear us when we cry out to Him? This is a question many may have, and the answer is a resounding yes! Yes, He does indeed have His ...

A unique eyewitness contribution to history on the Falklands conflict and backgroundPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Harold BrileyIllustr...

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Prisoner of Conscience. One man's remarkable journey from repression to freedom - Charles Yeats

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Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

Michael Chemny's autobiography, The Oath: A Quest for Freedom in War-Torn Ukraine, tells the incredible story of one young man's love of the simple...

A collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history.Publisher: Welbeck P...

From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the impe...

A unique snapshot of women in the legal profession from around the world at a defining point in history.Illustrations: 75 colour

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Written by a pioneer and continuing advocate for perinatal health, this book remains an enduring reference for any therapist working with pregnant ...

Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was f...

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Explore quotations drawn from inspiring correspondence-and the powerful stories behind them-from some of history's most noted (and notorious) lette...

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By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national fo...

New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground N...

Reducere. From author and illustrator Karen Katz, My America is a picture book celebration of immigration to the United States told through the experiences o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing ...