Joan Dash
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions that gave rise to efforts to secure better working conditions for women in the garment industry in early twentieth-century New York and led to the formation of the Women's Trade Union League and the first women's strike in1909.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court and beloved by French citizens, Franklin effectively became America's first foreign diplomat, later helping to enlist France's military and financial support for the American Revolution....
