Book
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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Physical Description
37 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Audience
Ages 6-10.
Summary
An homage to ten diverse, remarkable women who helped shape the United States between 1776 and 1824. Drawing on personal correspondence and private journals, Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of these women who created the framework for our current society, a generation of reformers and visionaries.
Contents
- Women through the years
- Lucy Terry Prince
- Judith Sargent Murray
- Isabella Graham
- Women educators and reformers
- Sacagawea
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
- Elizabeth Bayley Seton
- Women writers
- Louise D'Avezac Livingston
- Rebecca Gratz
- Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
- Louisa Catherine Adams.
Subjects
- Women social reformers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women educators > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women > United States > Social conditions > History > Juvenile literature.
- Women > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women > United States > History > 18th century > Juvenile literature.
- Women > United States > History > 19th century > Juvenile literature.
- Politicians' spouses > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women > Biography.
- Women > History > 18th century.
- Women > History > 19th century.
- Politicians' spouses.
- United States > History > 1783-1815 > Biography.
- United States > History > 1815-1861 > Biography.