Now in paperback, this compelling saga reveals - throughletters, diaries, news articles, prose, and poetry - how women madeenormous contributions to every era in American history, from thefirst Native American women in the 1600s to the women suffragistswho won the vote in 1920. Donna Lucey takes readers on a tourthrough American history through the eyes of its women. Gorgeousphotographs and paintings accompany the stories, diary excerpts,letters, newspaper articles, and first person accounts that tellAmerican history in this unique way. The book covers the years1600, when only Native American women populated America, to 1920,when women won the vote. Seven thematic chapters comprise acomprehensive timeline of American history: Native American Women,Colonial Women, Women Enslaved, Plantation Mistresses, WesteringWomen, Women of the Gilded Age, and Women of the 20th Century. Eachchapter addresses women in war, the arts, politics, social reform,philanthropy, and suffrage - telling simultaneously the story ofthat

James Ray Renton—thief, counterfeiter, and bank robber—becameone of America’s Ten Most Wanted Men when he was charged withmurdering a young Arkansas policeman in 1976. After a daring escapefrom the Tucker Maximum Security Unit in the 1980s, Renton made theFBI’s Fifteen Most Wanted List before eventually being recaptured.Then, while in solitary confinement, Renton wrote a 60-page accountof his escape and adventures, sent in a series of letters to DannyLyon, a close friend of Renton’s since they had met in the Texasprison system in 1967. After Renton’s death in 1995, Lyon visited the Arkansas townwhere Renton had been convicted. Following an incredible papertrail left behind by the crime and 1978 trial (in which Lyon hadtestified), Lyon located Dinker Cassel, who was sentenced to lifealong with Renton for the murder. Like a Thief’s Dream is Lyon’sgripping story of two men—one alive, the other dead—and anunparalleled portrayal of prison life in the 1980s and 1990s. Atale of murde

This expanded and fully revised edition of the guide that students have come to trust over the years is indispensable for anyone planning further study after college. Guide to American Graduate Schools provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on every aspect of graduate study, including: ● enrollments, locations, and housing situations for more than 1,200 accredited institutions ● fields of study offered by each institution ● admissions and degree requirements .. ● opportunities for financial aid and grants ● details on scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, internships, and traineeships

“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence ofhope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strangethan Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood.On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover afloating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickersnear Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrownditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over NewYork, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, nomotives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897,plunged detectives headlong into the era’s most baffling murder mystery. Seized uponby battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William RandolphHearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of themurder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in thestreets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikelytrio—a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentri

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A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth ofmodern forensics. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer JosephVacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,”terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities foryears—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr.Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. Thetwo men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle ?poque, a period ofimmense scientific achievement and fascination with science’spromise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisitsVacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of howLacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science aswe know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling,as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts andconstructs a map of Vacher’s crimes. We follow the tense andexciting events leading to the murderer’s arrest