Contains biographical sketches of more than 250 women who have helped shape American history from the sixteenth century to the present day, ranging from Native Americans to recent immigrants, artists to athletes, politicians to poets. 

Find out which woman 

• introduced dairy farming to the Cherokee 

• had an amendment to the Constitution named for her 

• was a queen before the U. S. toppled her government 

• invented the brown paper bag 

• was an activist who urged, “Out of the rocking chair, into the street!” and much, much more