Böcker av Louise Chipley Slavicek

The Civil War brought enormous hardship to America's female population. Yet, it also provided women of all races and classes with unprecedented opportunities to participate in civic and military activities that had previously been closed to them. This title describes the important roles women filled while the Union and Confederate armies fought.

In 1935, 17-year-old I M Pei left his family in Shanghai, China, to study architecture in the United States. Following the Communist takeover of China in 1949, Pei decided to remain in America to develop his budding architectural career. Over the next half century, Pei would establish himself as one of the leading architects in the world.

Established by a 1948 United Nations mandate, which divided the area known as Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, the nation of Israel has remained steadfastly resilient in its short history. UN partition greatly reduced the land held by the Palestinian Arabs and set in motion a series of conflicts between Israel and its border countries.