Featured Titles of the Month - Credo Reference



Credo Reference, one of Jarrett Library's premier databases has announced the featured titles for the month of April. They are Notable American Women: 1607-1950 and Notable American Women: The Modern Period.

Both volumes document women's contributions that were previously overlooked in the study of American history. Notable American Women: 1607-1950 covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformer, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, first ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks -- the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and the slave-born. Just a few of the names covered are Ruth Benedict (anthropologist), Jane Addams (settlement founder, social reformer and peace worker), Willa Cather (author), Isadora Duncan (dancer), Sojourner Truth (abolitionist and reformer), and Texas Guinan (actress and night club hostess).

Notable American Women: The Modern Period covers the life stories of American women from Edith Abbott to Mary Zimbalist, who have in some way affected contemporary American life. The basics -- the crucial dates, ancestry, parents, education, marital status, and children -- provide invaluable material for both the researcher and the general reader. Beyond these essentials, a brief essay focuses on each woman's life and personality, and evaluates her career from a historical framework. A few of the biographies include Janis Joplin (singer), Hattie Carnegie (fashion designer and entrepreneur), Jessie Daniel Ames (antilynching reformer and suffragist), Rachel Carson (writer, biologist and conservationist), and Bess Furman (journalist).

The final book in the series Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century will be released in the near future on Credo Reference.

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