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Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and a pioneer of modern x-ray astronomy, is leaving Cambridge to become the first director of NASA's new Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore...
This is the tale of a cure and a crucifixion. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss (1818-65) was a pioneer in antisepsis. As a young doctor in the obstetrics wards of a Viennese hospital, Semmelweiss saw a dismaying number of women die in convulsive agony after giving birth. Because he dared to analyze the cause, Semmelweiss was hounded into madness by disbelieving colleagues and the inflexible Pooh-Bahs of European medicine. Despite a loving wife (Jeanne Koren) and sister (Mary Lou Rosato), he died as a historical martyr of truth...
Behind this discovery is Stratton's great-grandmother. Lilla Day Monroe--a pioneer herself as one of the more influential suffrage leaders of her day, the founder of a western newspaper, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court. In the 1920s, she concocted the idea of soliciting female survivors of the Kansas frontier to chronicle their lives and entrust the stories to her care. She had in mind a magazine article, but when the submissions flooded in by the hundreds. Monroe expanded her project to an anthology. Illness and the obligations of public life prevented...
...rare finds: an account of captivity and a subsequent forced marriage to an Indian, and a description of the Victoria settlement--an abortive experiment by a band of pretentious Britons who brought their teacups and lace to Anglicize the West. Unfortunately, the memoirs fail to encompass all types of pioneer women; as Stratton notes in her forward, "the voices of the marginal women"--the poorest working classes, the barmaids and prostitutes, the Black women and Native Americans--have gone unrecorded...
...political development of the white homesteading women represented in the memoirs is well documented as they move from passive helpmates to gun toters, mayors, and temperance and suffrage stumpers. Carrie Nation, one of the more notorious Kansas pioneer women, appears in several memoirs, her rallying cry of "smash, women, smash" booming as she and her followers raid the western saloons, hatchets in hand. But the willful impulse of these independent-minded women, made infamous by the likes of Carrie, finds a less flamboyant, yet sterling expression in the simple declaration of one pioneer bride...