In this beautiful, patriotic gift book, colorfuly illustrated throughout, ABC News correspondent Lynn Sherr explores the fascinating history of our unofficial national anthem. We've all sung it a thousand times, and most of us know at least the first verse by heart. "America the Beautiful" has been called a hymn, a prayer, even the "national ...
Jennings was the sole anchor of ABCs World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every days news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography, readers will get to know Jennings through the memories of his friends, family, ...
Lynn Sherr has collected some of Susan B. Anthony's most provocative speeches, revealing private papers, and selected reminiscences, together with contemporary reports and biographical essays. As a whole, this collection shines a light on the brilliance, rapier wit, and tremendous courage displayed by this pioneer of the women's movement.
Veteran journalist Lynn Sherr has been an avid giraffophile since she visited the African wilderness nearly 25 years ago Tall Blondes traces the cultural history of the giraffe from its first appearance in Europe in 46 B.C. through medieval bestiaries and up to the modern giraffe star of a TV movie, and much more. Sherr has filled the book with ...
The first book from The Transition Network focuses on the unique needs of women as they explore new possibilities and redesign the old model of retirement, which no longer offers the challenges that these women experienced throughout their careers.
Sherr writes a savvy, witty, and moving memoir about events that have shaped her life and her career as one of the first women to break through in broadcast television.
THE MERCURY 13 recounts the unsuccessful effort to staff a NASA expedition with 13 female astronauts. Ackerman, a professor of Women's Studies at Mount Holyoke College, examines the political climate during the Eisenhower and Kennedy eras and how those pressures stymied the launch of these highly qualified and decorated aviators solely due to ...
On January 24, 1873, Susan B Anthony was indicted by a grand jury for voting "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully...the said Susan B Anthony being then and there a person of the female sex." The subsequent trial, in which Anthony was convicted of breaking the law by casting a vote, became one of the most famous trials of the nineteenth century. ...
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. ...
Sherr writes a savvy, witty, and moving memoir about events that have shaped her life and her career as one of the first women to break through in broadcast television.
Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies ...
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