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Traces women's role through the war and the Early Republic, including the creation of the Daughters of Liberty, African-American mutual aid societies, and the first women's relief organization, the Ladies Association of Philadelphia.

During the bloodiest conflict the United States has ever known, the clothing of men, women, and children changed little as the country was consumed by war. Complete with ample sidebars, "The Civil War" gives readers the necessary background about this tumultuous time in American history so they can understand how clothing, from hooped skirts to army uniforms, differed by region and by class. Photographs from movies, including "Gone with the Wi...

In 1931, Karl Jansky was hired by AT&T, to search for sources of static that might interfere with radio waves for transatlantic communications. Jansky identified static from thunderstorms and random radio noise from devices on Earth, but he also found a radio hiss from the Milky Way galaxy. After World War II, astronomers constructed more radio telescopes with greater sensitivity to faint radio signals from space. In the 1970s, the National Ra...

Whether they're darting across the evening sky in search of their breakfast or hanging from their upside-down roosts, bats play a crucial role in the natural world. But they are all too often misunderstood. Taschek's thoughtful and engaging exploration introduces young readers to the complicated and fascinating world of bats, both in their natural habitats and in the human imagination. Full color.

Karen Tascheks first book, The Horse of Seven Moons, was a childrens fictional story about a pinto horse, a Mescalero Apache boy, and an Anglo girl. In this new sequel, The Risen Horse, the Apache boy is now a grown man whose daughter is sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. She returns to a complicated world where she must reconcile the traditionalist ways of her father with the Anglo community that expects the Apaches to abando...