Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sandra opdycke

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  • WHEN WOMEN WON THE VOTE
    SANDRA OPDYCKE
    When Women Won the Vote focuses on the final decade (1910–1920) of American women’s fight for the vote—a fight that had already been underway for more than sixty years, and which culminated in the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Sandra Opdycke reveals how woman suffragists campaigned in communities across the country, building a mass movement and tirelessly publicizing t...

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  • THE WPA
    SANDRA OPDYCKE
    Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs programs ever created in the U.S. At its peak, the program provided work for almost 3.5 million Americans, employing more than 8 million people across its eight-year history in projects ranging from constructing public buildings and roads ...

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  • AMERICA'S SOCIAL HEALTH
    MARQUE-LUISA MIRINGOFF / SANDRA OPDYCKE
    Calling for a fundamental change in the focus of public policy in America, this book paints a vivid portrait of the nation's social health. Miringoff and Opdycke clearly show that social progress has stalled and the country's energies need to be directed at critical domestic issues in the years ahead.The authors propose a new agenda for monitoring America's social well-being bu...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF WOMEN IN AMERICA
    SANDRA OPDYCKE
    Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 1920s, and new female immigration, this atlas portrays the history of American women from a vivid geographical and demographic perspective. In a variety of colorful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the...

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  • THE FLU EPIDEMIC OF 1918
    SANDRA OPDYCKE
    In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the country's participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States. This epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history ...

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