Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 1-3, 1607-1950

Edited by Edward T. James

Edited by Janet Wilson James

Edited by Paul Boyer

    Notable American Women, a three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization.
       --Life

    The life stories of 1,300 remarkable American women. The sisterhood is here in all its many faces.
       --Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review

    American history at its most moving moments.
       --Saturday Evening Post

    A remarkable assemblage.
       --Times Literary Supplement

    Long needed, this publication is especially welcome today when there is an upsurge of interest in women's history.
       --American Historical Review

    Constructed with care and with an eye for detail, accuracy, ease of use.
       --Library Journal

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Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.