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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to be raised properly. Lonely and uncertain, Dorothea discovers that she does not possess the ability to accept the social expectations imposed on her gender and she desires to accomplish something more than finding a suitable...
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Language
English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies" by Seth Curtis Beach. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. While the country was at war, these women learned to advocate and care for patients in hostile settings, saved countless lives, and changed the profession forever. They regularly fell ill with no one to nurse them in return, seethed in anger at the indifference and inefficiency that left wounded men on the battlefield without care, and all too often...
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Series
Publisher
Apprentice Shop Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The first African-American nurse in the United States. A woman who rallied lady pilots during World War II. A champion paralympic skier. These and 22 other stories take students through the history of Massachusetts.
