With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
10 best books like With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote (Ann Bausum): You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!, I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote, Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies, I Lost My Tooth In Africa, Very Last First Time, William Shakespeare & the Globe, It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!
| Author | Shana Corey |
| ISBN | 0439078199 |
Would you DARE to bare your underwear? If you like CLOTHES and people with the courage to SKIRT conventions and address injustice, Amelia Bloomer and her unFITTING ideas will charm the PANTS off you!
Amelia Bloomer, a rebellious reformer and early women's rights activist, invented bloomers...
| Author | Linda Arms White |
| ISBN | 0374335273 |
Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther!
"I could do that," says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the age of nineteen? Why, she could do that, too. But one thing Esther and other women could NOT do was vote. Only men could do that.
With...
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...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0805079033 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0763650250 |
A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist.
"King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. . . . You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in...
| Author | Penda Diakité |
| ISBN | 0439662265 |
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.
More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself....
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064437221 |
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world.
Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to...
| Author | Robie H. Harris |
| ISBN | 0763624330 |
"Alternately playful and realistic, Emberley's. . . . art reinforces Harris's message that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors -- and that each variation is 'perfectly normal.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
When young people have questions about sex, real answers can...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
| Author | Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
| Author | David Stewart |
| ISBN | 0531186423 |
A wealth of historical and technical information surrounding the infamous Titanic are presented in an engaging and entertaining format. From the drawing board to the ocean floor, from the captain to the crew, from the wealthiest to the poorest, the Titanic and her history is revealed with humorous...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0618581316 |
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. From sneakers to hockey gloves, Curt monitors the watery fate of human-made cargo that has spilled into the ocean. The information he collects is much more than casual news; it is important scientific...
| Author | Shelley Tougas |
| ISBN | 0756545129 |
Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the worlds attention and kept its disapproving...
| Author | Robert D. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0590419528 |
For the first time, the complete story of the sinking and discovery of the "Titanic" is available to young readers, written by the author of the bestseller "The Discovery of the Titanic". "Captures the drama of both the night of the sinking as well as . . . the discovery of the great ship. . . . Stunning".--"School...
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
| Author | Ann Hagedorn |
| ISBN | 0743243714 |
Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, "Savage Peace" is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919. In the aftermath of an unprecedented worldwide war and a flu pandemic,...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0142300241 |
Dorothea Lange's desperate and beautiful pictures of migrant workers in California and her heartbreaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned during World War II put human faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit is an intimate portrait of a woman who struggled...
Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story
| Author | Ruby Bridges |
| ISBN | 0545108551 |
In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd and into a school where she changed history. This is the true story of an extraordinary little girl who helped shape our country when she became the first African-American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans. With simple text...
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 1426307624 |
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used...
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
| Author | Karen Blumenthal |
| ISBN | 0689859570 |
Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer? Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers?
Of course they can...
today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't...
| Author | Melissa Stewart |
| ISBN | 1426310609 |
Get kids reading with cool information about the subjects that interest them the most. National Geographic Readers are high-interest, exciting, and easy to read. The latest in the series, Titanic is no exception. Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Olympic-class passenger liner's ill-fated...
Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
| Author | Nan Enstad |
| ISBN | 0231111037 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating...
The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918
| Author | Ruth Rosen |
| ISBN | 0801826659 |
I think this book discusses an important (and somewhat disturbing) topic but the author's writing just made it more boring and repetitive than anything else. I'm sorry, but the writing was at times convoluted. For instance, this quote: "Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the prostitute remained a...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0618240349 |
An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Through the fictional story and...
