Henry Carter Hull

Contains photographs and brief biographical profiles of one hundred twentieth-century women who have advanced the status of women in the world, including activists and politicians, writers and journalists, doctors and scientists, artists and entertainers, athletes, and pioneers and adventurers.

Describes the significant contribution Dolley Madison made to the United States when she saved a picture of George Washington.

A biography of the woman who became the first licensed African American pilot.

A biography of Rachel Carson, author of "Silent spring," which sparked the beginnings of the modern environmental movement.

Examines the life and achievements of Helen Keller, a woman left blind and deaf by a fever at the age of two, who, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, learned to communicate and went on to become a famous writer and speaker.

A brief biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who accompanied explorers Lewis and Clark on their expedition in the early 1800s.

A picture biography of singer Ella Fitzgerald, following her from her youth on Waverly Street in New York, to fame in the nightclubs of Harlem in the 1930s.

Award-winning memoirist and best-selling author Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own experience as an Irishwoman to bring May-and all her heartache, deception and violence-to life.

Looks at the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man to join the army during the Civil War, working as a nurse and then a spy for the Union.