| International Standard Book Number |
9780593727027
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593727029
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
920.720973 23/eng/20260202
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| Personal Name |
O'Donnell, Norah, author.
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| Title Statement |
We the women : the hidden heroes who shaped America / by Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen Brower.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Hidden heroes who shaped America.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Publisher |
©2026.
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| Publisher |
New York : Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
viii, 406 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-396) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part 2. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Part 3. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Part 4. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Part 5. My lifetime : women's progress in America, 1976-today. Constance Baker Motley : the judge -- Pat Schroeder : the legislator ; Patsy Mink : the mother of Title IX ; Babe Didrikson : "the greatest athlete who ever lived" ; Romana Acosta Bañuelos : the treasure ; The New Orleans Four : the barrier breakers ; The Six Triple Eight : the soldiers ; Frances Perkins : the cabinet member ; Eleanor Roosevelt : the great "agitator" ; Mary McLeod Bethune : the first lady of the struggle ; Warriors, rebels, and visionaries : women at war at home and abroad, 1926-1976. Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick : the birth control pioneers -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll : the codebreaker ; The nineteenth amendment : the vote ; The hello girls of World War I : the operators ; Zitkala-Ša : the writer ; Mary Tape : the determined mother ; Maddie Lena Walker : the titan of finance ; Inez Milholland : the suffragist ; Katharine Wright : the aviator ; Emily Warren Roebling : the builder ; Blood, sweat, and tears : the Gilded Age and the great demand, 1876-1926. Belva Lockwood : the lawyer -- Anna Dickinson : the orator ; Susan and Susette La Flesche : the advocates ; Dr. Mary Edwards Walker : the Medal of Honor recipient ; The Blackwell Sisters : the doctors ; The women of Seneca Falls : the signers ; Charlotte Forten : the abolitionist ; The Grimké Sisters : the truth tellers ; Risk takers and rulebreakers : Seneca Falls and the Civil War, 1826-1876. Patience Lovell Wright : the sculptor -- Deborah Sampson : the war fighter ; Elizabeth Freeman : the freedom seeker ; Elizabeth Ellet : the historian ; Mercy Otis Warren : the intellectual ; Phillis Wheatley : the poet ; Mary Katherine Goddard : the printer ; The first fifty years : the women behind America's fight for independence, 1776-1826.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on sharing the stories of American heroines who helped change the course of history. We the Women presents a new and extraordinary retelling of American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The pressing question from women since the signing of the document has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through extensive research and interviews, as well as old photos and historic documents, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katharine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements, to the first women who served in the Armed Forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so, writes the American story anew.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women heroes Biography. United States
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Brower, Kate Andersen, author.
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