Alice Paul: Claiming Power
10 best books like Alice Paul: Claiming Power (J.D. Zahniser): Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, The Mueller Report, Resistance Women, Idylls of the King, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, Goblin Market and Other Poems, English Romantic Poetry, Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
| Author | Emily Yellin |
| ISBN | 0743245164 |
Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| Author | Isabel Wilkerson |
| ISBN | 0679444327 |
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
From...
| Author | Mary Walton |
| ISBN | 0230611753 |
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage...
| Author | Robert S. Mueller III |
The ongoing Special Counsel investigation (also referred to as the Mueller Probe or Mueller Investigation) is a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. This investigation includes...
| Author | Jennifer Chiaverini |
| ISBN | 0062841114 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American—Mildred Fish Harnack—and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine...
Alternate cover edition of ISBN10: 0140422536; ISBN13: 9780140422535
Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh...
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
| Author | Sally G. McMillen |
| ISBN | 0195182650 |
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention...
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 0486280551 |
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion...
| Author | Stanley Appelbaum |
| ISBN | 0486292827 |
Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and...
Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920
| Author | Linda G. Ford |
| ISBN | 0819182060 |
This book is an in-depth analysis of how the National Woman's Party's militancy evolved during the period of early twentieth century feminism and American suffrage as a response to the intransigence of male-centered government. Working first as aggressive political lobbyists in an era of progressive...
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
| Author | Leo Braudy |
| ISBN | 0679768300 |
Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship...
The Prince's Progress: And Other Poems (1866)
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 1165626233 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
I have just finished reading Jan Marsh’s monumental biography of the Victorian poet, Christina Georgina Rossetti, entitled, “Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography,” and all I can say is “Bravo!” This extremely well written biography leads the reader through Christina’s interesting...
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
| Author | Elizabeth Keckley |
| ISBN | 0195060849 |
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events...
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
| Author | Lisa Tetrault |
| ISBN | 1469614278 |
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
