Women in History | Dorothy Alling Library

1) The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women

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Moore, Kate

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Thorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

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The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories....

2) Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world

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A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.

3) Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II

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Mundy, Liza

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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.

4) Founding mothers: the women who raised our nation

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Roberts, Cokie

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While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps...Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the...

5) Eleven awesome Vermont women

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Parsons, Cynthia

6) Vermont farm women

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Miller, Peter

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In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Millers VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all...

7) The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

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Kiernan, Denise

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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

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This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. All knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret...

8) Little leaders: bold women in black history

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Harrison, Vashti

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Little leaders (Vashti Harrison)

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"Featuring forty trailblazing black women in American history, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of breaking boundaries and achieving beyond expectations. This audiobook brings to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history, such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, chemist Alice Ball, pilot Bessie Coleman, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, mathematician Katherine Johnson, activist Angela Davis, and filmmaker Julie...

9) Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

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Lee Shetterly, Margot

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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's...

10) Rise of the rocket girls: the women who propelled us, from missiles to the Moon to Mars

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Holt, Nathalia

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Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

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The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women- known as human computers- who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American ballistic missiles. But they were...

11) Women of the West

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Luchetti, Cathy

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Biographies of women who pioneered the American West that includes their personal letters and over 150 historic photographs.

12) You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?

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Fritz, Jean

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A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from her childhood, to her fight for the end of slavery, to her death 18 years before women were granted the right to vote.

13) Women on high: pioneers of mountaineering

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Brown, Rebecca A

14) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France

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Moorehead, Caroline

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Resistance Quartet

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"They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of sixteen, who scrawled 'V' (for victory) on the walls of her lyc��e; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped...

15) Women in art: 50 fearless creatives who inspired the world

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Ignotofsky, Rachel

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"Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female artists--from the 11th century to today--from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science"--

16) Who says women can't be doctors?: the story of Elizabeth Blackwell

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Stone, Tanya Lee

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A picture biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, who became the first female doctor in America in 1849.

17) Women who dared: 52 stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers, & rebels

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Skeers, Linda

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Profiles fifty-two women in history who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.