Mary Walker

Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780807549919

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Mary Walker Wears the Pants by Cheryl Harness Pdf

2014 Amelia Bloomer list The Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street College The story of Mary Edwards Walker, the doctor and women's rights activist who served in the Civil War and receive the Medal of Honor. Mary Edwards Walker was unconventional for her time: She was one of the first women doctors in the country, she was a suffragist, and she wore pants! And when the Civil War struck, she took to the battlefields in a modified Union uniform as a commissioned doctor. For her service she became the only woman ever to earn the Medal of Honor. This picture book biography tells the story of a remarkable woman who challenged traditional roles and lived life on her own terms.

Author : Sharon M Harris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813548195

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Dr. Mary Walker by Sharon M Harris Pdf

A suffragist who wore pants. This is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. Perhaps more telling about her life are the words of an 1866 London Anglo-American Times reporter, "Her strange adventures, thrilling experiences, important services and marvelous achievements exceed anything that modern romance or fiction has produced. . . . She has been one of the greatest benefactors of her sex and of the human race." In this biography Sharon M. Harris steers away from a simplistic view and showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many nineteenth-century issues she championed:political, social, medical, and legal reforms, abolition, temperance, gender equality, U.S. imperialism, and the New Woman. Rich in research and keyed to a new generation, Dr. Mary Walker captures its subject's articulate political voice, public self, and the realities of an individual whose ardent beliefs in justice helped shape the radical politics of her time.

Author : Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524768294

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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard Pdf

Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author. In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was married and had her first child. By age 68, she had worked numerous jobs, including cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and selling sandwiches to raise money for her church. At 114, she was the last remaining member of her family. And at 116, she learned to read. From Rita Lorraine Hubbard and rising star Oge More comes the inspirational story of Mary Walker, a woman whose long life spanned from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, and who--with perseverance and dedication--proved that you're never too old to learn.

Author : Theresa Kaminski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493036103

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Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War by Theresa Kaminski Pdf

“I will always be somebody.” This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known--even notorious--in her own lifetime. Kaminski shares a different way of looking at the Civil War, through the eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to that of any man. This part of the story takes readers into the political cauldron of the nation’s capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if notorious figure. Mary Walker’s relentless pursuit of gender and racial equality is key to understanding her commitment to a Union victory in the Civil War. Her role in the women’s suffrage movement became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal, only to have the medal reinstated in 1977.

Author : Mary Edwards Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Social problems
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020322681

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Hit by Mary Edwards Walker Pdf

Author : Ammar Habib
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798642560105

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Mary Edwards Walker by Ammar Habib Pdf

In the history of America, only one woman has ever received the Medal of Honor: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. However, Mary's life was more than just a medal. Not only was Mary a leading suffragist, the first female surgeon to serve in the United States Army, and an advocate of women's dress reform, she was a woman who put the lives of others before hers. She sacrificed her personal happiness, her comforts, and her reputation in order to fight for the ideals she believed in, both during and after her service in the American Civil War. Mary was a nonconformist in every way, refusing to bow down to society's establishments. When society towered above her, demanding her to surrender, Mary planted herself like a tree and stood her ground. Mary's life is a testament to the idea of selflessness. Today, many Americans stand on her shoulders. This book is more than a simple biography of Mary's life. Instead, this book seeks to understand the woman behind the medal. It seeks to discover the core of Mary's being and the inspirations that turned her into who she was. People may know Dr. Walker. The question is: who was Mary?

Author : Sydney Nathans
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674063297

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To Free a Family by Sydney Nathans Pdf

What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.

Author : Bonnie Zucker Goldsmith
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604539666

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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker by Bonnie Zucker Goldsmith Pdf

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who earned a medical degree and volunteered her services during the Civil War, earning her a Medal of Honor and helping her crusade for women's rights.

Author : Keith Negley
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062846795

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Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley Pdf

From the award-winning creator of My Dad Used to Be So Cool and Tough Guys Have Feelings Too comes a charming picture book inspired by the true story of Mary Edwards Walker, a trailblazing 19th-century doctor who was arrested many times for wearing pants. Once upon a time (but not that long ago), girls only wore dresses. And only boys wore pants. Until one day, a young girl named Mary had an idea: She would wear whatever she wanted. And she wanted to wear pants! This bold, original picture book encourages readers to think for themselves while gently challenging gender and societal norms.

Author : Mary Paulson-Ellis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447293934

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The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis Pdf

Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters. Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name . . . An old lady dies alone and unheeded in a cold Edinburgh flat on a snowy Christmas night. A faded emerald dress hangs in her wardrobe; a spilt glass of whisky pools on the floor. A few days later a middle-aged woman arrives back in the city she thought she’d left behind, her future uncertain, her past in tatters. She soon finds herself a job at the Office for Lost People, tracking down the families of those who have died neglected and alone. But what Margaret Penny cannot yet know, is just how entangled her own life will become in the death of one lonely stranger . . . 'One of the strongest debuts of the year' Herald 'Full of twists and turns' Independent 'A wonderful, inventive debut . . . I can't wait to see what this author has up her sleeve next' Fanny Blake, Daily Mail

Author : Mercedes Graf,Mary Edwards Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1577470710

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A Woman of Honor by Mercedes Graf,Mary Edwards Walker Pdf

Author : Mary Walker Phillips,Meg Swansen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486473086

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Knitting Counterpanes by Mary Walker Phillips,Meg Swansen Pdf

Mary Walker Phillips nearly single-handedly brought 19th-century American counterpanes — bed coverings — to the attention of modern knitters. Expanded with dozens of brand-new charts, this revised edition features 46 counterpane patterns as well as 32 lace edgings and borders that Phillips discovered in museums, private collections, and magazines. "A terrific book." — Knitter's Magazine. Revised and expanded reprint of the Taunton Press, Newtown, Connecticut, 1989 edition.

Author : Carla Joinson
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Physicians
ISBN : 1599350289

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Civil War Doctor by Carla Joinson Pdf

A young adult biography of Civil War surgeon Mary Walker

Author : Dale L. Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0765310651

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Mary Edwards Walker by Dale L. Walker Pdf

Profiles the only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, including her Civil War service, women's rights advocacy, and arrests for wearing slacks.

Author : Mary Willis Walker
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307574374

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All the Dead Lie Down by Mary Willis Walker Pdf

When crime reporter Molly Cates’s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly’s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation–and a rush of old wounds–with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly’s search for the truth leads her from the stately halls of Texas government to the mean streets of Austin’s down-and-out–and ultimately to a moral dilemma she never could have anticipated.