biography

A biography of the English founder and first governor of the colony of Georgia who was active in politics and penal reform and a supporter of the American Revolution.

Offers the writings and recollections of seven women who traveled to the American West in 1851, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

Presents and discusses the diaries and letters of six women who traveled overland in covered wagons during the 1850s, arranged chronologically from their date of departure at the Missouri River.

Recalling her years on Oleron, an island that was part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall fortifications, Carlisle describes the Occupation from its early days to the harsh later stages of food shortages and forced labor.