by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2008 | In The News, Publications
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by Jill Tietjen | May 11, 2008 | In The News, Publications
This is a glorious celebration of the women who have shaped our country, spanning hundreds of years of our history. The stories on this timeline cover a panoply of disciplines, talents and contributions, all illustrating the unique contributions made by women throughout history. This will remind Mom that many unheralded women have made unique and valuable contributions to the world.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 5, 2008 | In The News, Publications
Imagine the task of documenting the lives of nine-hundred accomplished women. Her Story is featured in Bay Area Business Woman.
by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2008 | In The News, Publications
Author! Author! Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, (HarperCollins, in bookstores April 1) by Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Honorary Board Member Jill Tietjen and Charlotte Waisman is a vivid illustrated timeline highlighting the awesome and often unrecognized contributions of American women since the 1500s.
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 21, 2008 | In The News, Publications
You’ve come a long way, baby, as this illustrated timeline highlighting the achievements of women in America demonstrates. The book, which grew out of a traveling exhibit of the same name, consists of brief descriptions of more than 900 women, both famous and forgotten, who have influenced the nation, mostly through politics, academe, business, technology, or the arts. The most stirring entries involve those who dared to defy the gender norms of their day, like the women who took up arms in the Revolutionary War, spoke out against slavery, and marched for suffrage. A number of entries provide interesting trivia, including the fact that women invented paper grocery bags (Margaret Knight, 1870) and Kevlar (Stephanie Kwolek, 1965). Many describe females who were firsts in their fields, and some of these are more momentous than others — I appreciated reading that Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, for The Age of Innocence, but can’t say I felt edified upon learning that Margaret Petherbridge Farrar was the first woman to create a crossword puzzle book. While this unabashedly celebratory book is feminism at its softest and fuzziest, it’s enjoyable to flip through and would make a fine gift, certainly sparking more interesting conversation than another bouquet of flowers. —Barbara Spindel
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