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To study the women's fight for the vote through my book, "Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment," you can find a free, downloadable teachers guide on my website. Just click on the "For Teachers" link on the landing page. https://www.nancybkennedy.com//for-te...

In 2020, our country celebrated the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, and the franchise was no longer restricted to men.

My book, "Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment" (Norton Young Readers, 2020) celebrates this victory through the lives of 19 of the women who devoted themselves to this cause. Among them are women who are well known today, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sus To study the women's fight for the vote through my book, "Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment," you can find a free, downloadable teachers guide on my website. Just click on the "For Teachers" link on the landing page. https://www.nancybkennedy.com//for-te...

In 2020, our country celebrated the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, and the franchise was no longer restricted to men.

My book, "Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment" (Norton Young Readers, 2020) celebrates this victory through the lives of 19 of the women who devoted themselves to this cause. Among them are women who are well known today, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, as well as lesser known woman like Mary Church Terrell and Adelina Otero-Warren.

The suffrage fight made many women outcasts in their families, their churches and among their friends. They gave their time, their money, their health and sometimes even their lives to the cause. They were mocked, sometimes mobbed, and in the end, some of them were jailed and subjected to the torture of force feeding. "It is worth sacrificing everything for," said Alice Paul, the founder of the National Woman's Party and organizer of protests outside the White House gates.

Previously, I wrote a series of books titled Miracles and Moments of Grace, which are anthologies of inspiring stories. The titles are: Inspiring Stories from Military Chaplains http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Moment... Inspiring Stories from Doctors https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Momen... Inspiring Stories from Moms, http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Moment... Inspiring Stories of Survival, http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Moment....

A member of the Authors Guild, I worked in newspapers for many years, including a stint as an editor for Dow Jones’s pioneering computer news service, for which I edited both The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

As a freelance financial writer, I worked for many newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and the online Wall Street Journal, and for the financial services firm Merrill Lynch. As an editor, I worked for such well-respected publishing houses as Princeton University Press and Ecco Press, now an imprint of HarperCollins.

Visit my website at http://www.nancybkennedy.com and I am also on facebook, where you can follow me and the book at https://www.facebook.com/nancybkenned....
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	Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment by Nancy B. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Katy Dockrill (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Military Chaplains 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Doctors 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Did It: Weight Loss Choices that Will Work for YOU 3.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Moms 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles & Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories of Survival 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Even the Sound Waves Obey Him (CPH Teaching Resource by Nancy B. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Dana Regan (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles & Moments of Grace it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make It Shake It Mix It Up: 44 Bible Stories Brought to Life with Science it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A few caveats before I opine: I'm generally not a fiction reader, do we really need another WWII story, and I generally don't like stories told in two time frames. That said, I did read this book to the end and the plot and characters were engaging, ...more
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O, the sturm und drang of youth! Especially of evangelical Christian youth. Preston Yancey writes of the spiritual crisis of his college years at Baylor University, which, if I'm counting correctly, ended a mere three years ago. Overzealousness and d ...more
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You, like me, might think you knew everything you needed to know about Anne Frank, especially if you've read the diary and a few books about her life. But you'd be wrong! Joop Van Wijk - Voskuijl and Jeroen de Bruyn tell a part of the story that's be ...more
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In this book about the life of Sioux warrior Red Cloud, the scenes of bloodshed, gore and atrocities are endless. But the most arresting visual I took away from it is a final scene reported in the book's endnotes. It's an "I'm Not Rappaport" kind of ...more
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I came to this book with absolutely no knowledge of the Hoover Dam. Asked to locate it on a map, I would have put an X in the wrong place. But here's the thing: I love reading about topics I know nothing about. In all honesty, I expected a book about ...more
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This account of a boy's childhood blasted by a father's alcoholism and secret life is so lyrical you can almost forget how horrible it was in the living of it. Ian Morgan Cron is a gifted writer who seamlessly weaves together the conflicting emotions ...more
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“If it please you, the lady's name again?" says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.”
― Frederick Buechner

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“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.”
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