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Across more than six generations -- beginning before the Revolutionary War -- the Breckinridge family has produced a series of notable leaders. These often controversial men and women included a presidential candidate, a U.S. vice president, cabinet members, generals, women's rights advocates, congressmen, editors, reformers, authors, and church leaders. Along with success, the Breckinridges, like other Americans, faced hardship and war, contended with race, lived through difficult family situations -- including a sex scandal -- and encountered personal and political failure. An articulate, op
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Breckinridge --- Margaret (Miller) --- Mrs. --- 1802-1838
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Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women's activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today. Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure.
Feminists --- Feminism --- Women social workers --- Women social reformers --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- History --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, --- Breckenridge, Sophonisba Preston, --- Breckinridge, S. P.
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Breckinridge County (Ky.) --- Hardinsburg (Ky.) --- Cloverport (Ky.) --- Kentucky --- Newspapers.
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John C. Breckinridge rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history. Widely respected, even by his enemies, for his dedication to moderate liberalism, Breckinridge's charisma and integrity led to his election as Vice President at age 35, the youngest ever in America's history. After a decade of being out-of-print, Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol returns as the quintessential biography of one of Kentucky's great moderates. Historian William C. Davis sheds light on Breckinridge's life throughout three key periods, spanning his career as a celebrated s
Generals --- Vice-Presidents --- Statesmen --- Breckinridge, John C. --- Breckinridge, John Cabell, --- Breckenridge, John Cabell, --- Confederate States of America. --- P.A.C.S. --- PACS
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When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of all genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers, and activists with competing strategies. In 'A Simple Justice', Melanie Beals Goan offers a new and deeper understanding of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the people who labored long and hard to see the battle won.
Suffragists --- Women --- Suffrage --- History --- Clay, Laura, --- Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, --- Kentucky Equal Rights Association. --- Suffrage.
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In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, cost-effective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world.In this first comprehensive biography of the FNS founder, Melanie Beals Goan provides a revealing look at the challenges Breckinridge faced as s
Nurses --- Nurses. --- History, 20th Century. --- Nursing Services --- Rural Health Services --- Nurses and nursing --- Registered nurses --- RNs (Registered nurses) --- Medical personnel --- Nursing Personnel --- Personnel, Nursing --- Registered Nurses --- Nurse --- Nurse, Registered --- Nurses, Registered --- Registered Nurse --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 20th Century --- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. --- History, Twentieth Century --- Medical History, 20th Cent. --- Medicine, 20th Cent. --- 20th Century History --- 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 20th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 20th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 20th --- Century Histories, Twentieth --- Century History, 20th --- Century History, Twentieth --- Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 20th Century --- Histories, Twentieth Century --- History, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- History --- history. --- Breckinridge, Mary, --- Appalachian Region. --- Appalachia --- Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. --- FNS --- F.N.S. --- Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies
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This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic--and mostly male--social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation. The book's varied perspectives, building on recent work in history and feminist theory, break from the traditional view of the social sciences as objective bodies of expert knowledge. Contributors examine new forms of social knowledge, rather, as discourses about gender relations and as methods of cultural critique. The book will create a new framework for understanding the development of both social science and the history of gender relations in the United States. The contributors are: Guy Alchon, Nancy Berlage, Desley Deacon, Mary Dietz, James Farr, Nancy Folbre, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Dorothy Ross, Helene Silverberg, and Kamala Visweswaran.
Sex role --- Social sciences --- Women social scientists --- Women --- History --- SCIENZE SOCIALI --- DONNE --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Storia. --- Addams, Jane. --- Babcock, Howard E. --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba. --- Bruere, Martha Bensley. --- Calkins, Mary Whiton. --- Christianity. --- Cox Stevenson, Matilda. --- Davis, Katharine Bement. --- Fletcher, Alice. --- Goldenweiser, Alexander. --- Hammond, Margaret. --- James, William. --- Jones, Nellie Kedzie. --- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. --- Kingsbury, Susan. --- Laboulaye, Edouard de. --- Leupp, Francis. --- Macfadden, Bernarr. --- National Municipal League. --- Native Americans. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich. --- Parsons, Elsie Clews. --- Pearson, Thomas. --- Platt Smith, Erminnie. --- Rossiter, Margaret. --- Spencer Herbert. --- Victorian gender system. --- academic freedom trials. --- anthropology. --- child labor. --- classes in the United States. --- domesticity. --- economics. --- evolutionary theory. --- family wage economy. --- feminism. --- higher education and women. --- home economics. --- manifest destiny. --- masculinity. --- maternalism and motherhood. --- political science. --- pragmatism. --- psychology. --- romanticism. --- settlement movement. --- social Darwinism. --- suffrage movement. --- trade union activity. --- van Kleeck, Eliza Mayer. --- women’s colleges.
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