Women Who Dare: Four New Titles
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the peak of Mount Everest, armed with picket signs, pickaxes or simply a voice of their own, women have changed the course of history.
Their achievements have been chronicled in four new titles in the Women Who Dare book series, published by the Library of Congress in association with Pomegranate Communications: "Marian Anderson" by Howard Kaplan, "Margaret Mead" by Aimee Hess, "Women Explorers" by Sharon M. Hannon and "Women for Change" by Sara Day.
Denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because she was African-American, Marian Anderson sang before a crowd of 75,000 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939 for this defining moment in American history.
A decade earlier, armed with a tape recorder and a typewriter, anthropologist Margaret Mead began traveling the globe to document the daily lives of other cultures.
Like women who explored uncharted territory, women reformers broke new ground in their quest for temperance, suffrage, peace and gender equality. The actions of these women—some famous, others lesser known—paved the way for future generations.
Other titles in the Women Who Dare series include "Amelia Earhart," "Helen Keller," "Eleanor Roosevelt," "Women of the Civil War," "Women of the Suffrage Movement" and "Women of the Civil Rights Movement."
Each 64-page title, containing 40 illustrations, is available for $12.95 in bookstores nationwide and in the Library of Congress Sales Shop, Washington, DC 20540-4985. Credit card orders are taken at (888) 682-3557. Online orders can be placed at www.loc.gov/shop/.
Lighthouses and Bridges
The Library of Congress and W.W. Norton & Company announce the publication of "Lighthouses" and "Bridges"—the two latest additions to the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture Design and Engineering series.
"Lighthouses" by Sara E. Wermiel and "Bridges" by Richard L. Cleary join "Barns" by John Vlach, "Canals" by Robert Kapsch and "Theaters" by Craig Morrison.
"Lighthouses" conveys the romance and beauty of these iconic navigational aids while explaining their development and structure. The book covers lighthouses from all parts of the United States from the late 18th century to the 1940s, when control of the lighthouses was transferred to the Coast Guard and after which few new ones were built. Images of lighthouses from coast to coast provide examples of striking design and setting as well as celebrating technological achievement and the work of important engineers.
"Bridges" surveys these ubiquitous structures, from familiar monuments to modest designs. It categorizes American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss and suspension) as well as movable bridges (swing, lift and bascule). The volume includes "A Call for Preservation" of the engineering heritage of the American bridge, written by Eric DeLony, former chief of the Historic American Engineering Record at the National Park Service.
"Lighthouses" and "Bridges," which include CD-ROMs containing images, are each available for $75 in bookstores nationwide and through the Library's Sales Shop, Washington, DC 20540-4985. Credit card orders are taken at (888) 682-3557. Online orders can be placed at www.loc.gov/shop/.
