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By exploring a range of films about American women, this book offers readers an opportunity to engage in both history and film in a new way, embracing representation, diversity, and historical context. Throughout film history, stories of women achieving in American history appear few and far between compared to the many epic tales of male achievement. This book focuses largely on films written by women and about women who tackled the humanist...

For the love of country. For the love of freedom. For the love of a woman. He fought.¿¿¿Giuseppe Garibaldi yearned for a world of equality, liberty, and freedom for all nations, races, and genders. America had long claimed her independence from England, yet his beloved Italian peninsula was in a never-ending state of instability and war as the Austrian Empire, French, Church, and regional kingdoms wrestled for power.Forced into exile, Garibald...

From the invention of eyeglasses to the Internet, this three-volume set examines the pivotal effects of inventions on society, providing a fascinating history of technology and innovations in the United States from the earliest European colonization to the present. Technical Innovation in American History surveys the history of technology, documenting the chronological and thematic connections between specific inventions, technological system...

His loyalty lasted a lifetime…Surgeon, merchant, vintner, and writer Filippo Mazzei influenced American business, politics, and philosophy. Befriending Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Mazzei was a strong liaison for others in Europe. Mazzei was Jefferson's inspiration for the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal."Clearly, Mazzei had a gift of language and often used his words to share his idea...

Presents a collection of 23 essays on the lives of female screenwriters from early Hollywood, whose bold, brash, brilliant words have enhanced our film experiences, but whose names have been left out of most film history textbooks. These essays explore the themes of their writing and the trajectories of each woman's career.

Die junge Monica und ihre Vorgesetzte Tess sind zwei Engel auf Erden mit einer himmlischen Mission: Sie ziehen durch die USA, um Menschen am Scheideweg dabei zu helfen, mit ihren Problemen fertigzuwerden. Als Überbringer der göttlichen Botschaft von der Liebe dürfen sie dabei manchmal auf die Hilfe weiterer Engel vertrauen, wenn es darum geht, Gottes Werk auf Erden mit Rat und Tat zu verwirklichen.

A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys - Best Comedy Series and Best Director. This book tells the story of The Monkees and how the show changed television, introducing a new generation to the fourth-wall-breaking slapstick created by Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers.

Groundbreaking events involving women in aviation have occurred on every continent, from the flights of Beryl Markham in Kenya to those of Nancy Bird in Australia and Shannon W. Lucid of the United States. This encyclopedia examines women in aviation in the 20th century, from the dawn of powered flight to the space station of the late 1990s. From balloonists and gliders to military flyers and astronauts, this reference source includes women fr...