Harvey, Brett

Interviews with over 90 women detailing their experiences with sexism, work, education, and marriage during the 1950s.

Explores the roles of women during the 1950s, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds.

Describes the lives of people involved with farming and ranching in the American West during the 1800s.

Becky, whose family has emigrated from Russia to avoid being persecuted as Jews, finds growing up in New York City in 1910 a vivid and exciting experience.

Nine-year old Elenore describes her experiences living with her family in the Dakota Territory in the late nineteenth century.

A young girl relates the hardships and dangers of traveling with her family in a covered wagon from Illinois to California during the 1860's.