Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America Pub. Date: 4/1/2008 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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Her Story is a vivid documentation of the breadth and diversity of American women's achievements throughout U.S. history. This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of American women since the 1500s.

There have been women trailblazers throughout American history; women have had a profound impact on the intellectual, social, and political development of our society. But many of their contributions have gone unnoticed. Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But did you know that a woman microbiologist discovered the bacterium responsible for undulant fever, which then led to the pasteurization of all milk? Or that a woman patented the paper-bag folding machine to make square-bottom bags (the grocery bag)? Or that a female mathematician's work laid the foundation for abstract algebra?

The women featured in Her Story range from writers, artists, actors, and athletes to doctors, scientists, social and political activists, educators, and inventors, and include women of all backgrounds and philosophies. The authors of Her Story, Charlotte S. Waisman and Jill S. Tietjen, have compiled an extraordinary collection of women and events that provides a unique view of history. Part of Her Story's distinctiveness is the inclusion of hundreds of lesser-known women from all walks of life who have broken barriers and created paths of noteworthy and inspiring achievement.

In her Foreword to the book, Madeleine Albright comments, "Spanning the centuries from 1587 . . . this book will allow women and men to become more aware of and informed about the women who have been instrumental in giving us the quality of life we enjoy today. Often stepping outside of the expected modes of behavior for women during their lives, the profiled women were the pioneers for their causes, their professions, or their passions. Their accomplishments have advanced the arts, the sciences, politics, and business."

The timeline also includes snapshots of events and organizations that have shaped women's experiences and women's history and, thereby, the culture and history of America. The familiar and unfamiliar stories that unfold here—from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, to chemist Stephanie Kwolek's invention of Kevlar, the synthetic fiber used to make bulletproof vests—make Her Story a captivating look at champions that will resonate with women and men alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061246517
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 268,896
Product dimensions: 10.30 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

For more than twenty-five years, Charlotte S. Waisman, PhD, has advocated for women as a professor, political activist, keynote speaker, and expert witness. She has co-authored several books, and is director of human resources for the Women’s Vision Foundation.

First Chapter

Her Story
A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Chapter One

Years
1580-1650

1587
One hundred sixteen people, including Eleanor and Ananias Dare, settle on Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) as part of the second effort of the British to colonize the New World. Their daughter, Virginia Dare, is the first child to be born to English parents on what is now American soil. Unfortunately, this entire group vanished. A U.S. stamp commemorating Virginia Dares birth and the Lost Colony is later issued.

1607
One hundred four British men and boys settle in Jamestown (later part of the state of Virginia) as part of continuing attempts by the British to colonize the New World. Jamestown is named in honor of James I, the king of England. This group of pioneers was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London.

1608
Pocahontas saves a Jamestown colonist, Captain John Smith, from execution by her father, Algonquin chief Powhatan.

1619
Purchased by the Virginia colony, the first African slaves (seventeen men and three women) arrive at Jamestown. By the end of the transatlantic slave trade, an estimated five hundred thousand people have been exported to the United States; 30 percent of them are women.

1620
More than a hundred Pilgrims, men, women, and children, leave England aboard the ship Mayflower in search of religious freedom. When the ship arrives at Plymouth Rock, its passengers establish the first settlement in what will become the state of Massachusetts.

1622
Mary Johnson A slave named Mary arrives in Jamestown; she laterbecomes one of the first freed slaves in the United States who has the right to choose her own surname (Johnson). A common practice at the time is to choose the surname of a benefactor; thus it is believed that someone with the surname of Johnson helped Mary and her husband attain their freedom.

1636
Harvard College is established in Massachusetts; its mission is to educate men to become ministers.

1637
Anne Hutchinson expresses religious views that are not appreciated by some influential members of the local government. Their accusations result in her becoming the first female defendant in a Massachusetts court and, upon a finding of her guilt, her expulsion from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. She and much of her family settle in Rhode Island.

1644
Upon the death of her husband, Mistress Sarah Jenney becomes the first woman to run a grain mill. In 1652, this Pilgrim and resident of the Plymouth Colony receives a land grant.

1645
Lady Deborah Moody founds Gravesend (now a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York) based on a town patent she receives from the Dutch. Moody becomes the first female landowner in the New World, which also makes her eligible to vote.

1648
Margaret Brent emigrates from England to the Maryland settlement in 1638 with one of her sisters and two of her brothers. She claims a land grant, conducts business, and appears in court. On his deathbed, Governor Leonard Calvert appoints her as his executor, and her ensuing actions enable the settlement to survive. In 1648, she appears before the legislature to request two votes—one for herself, as she is a landowner, and another in her role as Lord Baltimores attorney.

1650
Anne Bradstreet, who emigrates from England to Massachusetts with the Puritans in 1630, is the first American poet and the first American woman to have a book published in what will become the United States. She writes poetry while raising eight children and serving as hostess for her husband, who becomes governor. Her first book of poetry, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America, by a Gentlewoman of Those Parts, is published in England in 1650 by her brother-in-law, who takes her poems without her knowledge. The American edition is published in 1678.

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A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. Copyright © by Charlotte Waisman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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