The Lincoln Memorial & American Life

The Lincoln Memorial & American Life
Author: Christopher A. Thomas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780691011943

Christopher Thomas offers the first detailed analysis of Bacon's design and the memorial as a system, including the statue of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French. Using extensive archival data, Thomas discusses just why the memorial looks as it does.".

Able-bodied Womanhood

Able-bodied Womanhood
Author: Martha H. Verbrugge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1988
Genre: Physical education for women
ISBN: 0195051246

This case study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900 combines medical and social history to analyze the conflicting messages--both feminist and conservative--projected by the concept of "able-bodied womanhood."