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In American Women Inventors, author Carole Ann Camp explores the lives, challenges, and discoveries of some of the most prominent female inventors in the United

Profiles the first women to reach ten pinnacles: winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, U.S. Supreme Court justice, Surgeon General,

Profiles ten influential and dedicated dancers and choreographers who worked in America, including Martha Graham, Fred Astaire, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

For the past two centuries, American men and women from many fields of study have worked to preserve and protect our natural environment. From the activists who