Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

by Jill S. Tietjen, Charlotte S. Waisman, Jill S. Tietjen

Book Overview

Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But did you know that a female microbiologist discovered the bacterium responsible for undulant fever, which then led to the pasteurization of milk? Or that a female mathematician's work laid the foundation for abstract algebra? Her Story is a one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlighting the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061246514
• ISBN13: 9780061246517
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 8.0"