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“No lack of time, strength or money shall prevent me from doing anything that I want to do,” was Sarah Macnaughtan’s lifelong motto, first uttered in her younger years. A compassionate and daring woman ahead of her time who stood barely over 5 feet tall, Sarah let no obstacles become roadblocks in her life.”

Life Women Compassion Courage England Bravery Scotland Scottish Overcoming Obstacles Ww1

Book:The Strange Side of War: A Woman’s WWI Diary

Source: The Strange Side of War: A Woman’s WWI Diary

“Her unique observations are about how the war impacted people—from the thrill-seekers going to battlefields for fun, to the nurses working among the wounded in darkness, and London society women venturing into foreign lands to work near dangerous enemy lines.”

War Women History Battle England Heroes Scotland Ww1 Red Cross Nurses

Book:The Strange Side of War: A Woman's WWI Diary

Source: The Strange Side of War: A Woman's WWI Diary

“Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.”

Love Inspiration Understanding Race History Heroes American History Ethnicity Southwest

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months.”

Women History Mexico Native American Tribe Southwest Santa Fe True Stories Apache

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“What sets my photos in this book apart from other similar works is that all these images were taken during my daily life. No big glitzy photo shoots. No big camera. No heavy bag with lots of lenses. No tripod...I photographed things I thought were beautiful, funny, ironic, spectacular, sad, interesting...”

Travel Photography Europe North America

Book:Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys

Source: Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys

“Each of the three cultures in New Mexico during the mid-1800s (Caucasian, Hispanic, and Native American) were actively involved in kidnapping each other. As competition and fighting occurred between the three races, cruelty and violence were rampant on all sides. Yet, some captives found kindness among their captors.”

War History Western Native American Captives Hispanic New Mexico Southwest

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.”

History Western Texas Native Americans Southwest True Stories Parker S Fort

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“One time, a 16-year-old member of Vicente’s group risked his safety trying to save a captive Texas girl, who had been seized by Comanches while taking clothes to wash at a stream near her house.”

History Hispanic New Mexico Tribe Southwest True Stories Comanche

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“A common thread that weaves the stories of all the captives together is race—one racial group attacking another. Many innocent people were simply trying to live their ordinary lives when another group decided it was justifiable to use violence to rob, beat, murder, kidnap, sometimes mutilate, and enslave others and their loved ones.”

War America Race History Racism Southwest Innocents

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“More often than not, though, no further mention was made about the fate of the prisoners. I wondered to myself what happened to these people? After months of digging, I learned the ugly truth, which is also addressed in this book.”

History Nonfiction Southwestern American Culture

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“While browsing through the Seattle Art Museum in 1945, a scholar discovered a 5-inch jade seal, missing from China since the Boxer Rebellion, as a priceless Imperial seal. “My spectacles fell off my nose and I started to yell,” said Hugh Alexander Matier, 62-year-old scholar and traveler.”

Art History Discovery China Empress Imperial Boxer Rebellion Dowager Forbidden City Eyewitness

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

“He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine.”

China Journalism Cuisine Chinese Cooking Hongkong

Book:My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

Source: My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“Novins had a great impact on my way of thinking and the journalist I became. Although also a friend of Walter Cronkite, he spoke to us mostly about Murrow. He had high expectations for his students.”

Memoir Journalism Cronkite Murrow Novins

Book:My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

Source: My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“In this eyewitness story, we meet Tzu-hsi in the twilight of her reign. Advanced in age, the Empress on the Dragon Throne is no longer the young beauty whose skill at seduction and aptitude for court intrigue saw her rise from a lowly Imperial concubine to the second most powerful place under the Hsien-feng Emperor.”

Culture History China Chinese Asia Empress Dowager Forbidden City

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

“Armed with her title as princess, the married name of Mrs. Thaddeus White, and the United States as a new frontier to conquer, Der Ling won many admirers.”

America History China Empress Dowager Forbidden City Last Emperor

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

“This book is important due to the historical insights of Der Ling rather than her literary skill. Her life and works underscore a shrewd ability to adapt and make the most out of her various experiences.”

Work History Chinese Royal Family Forbidden City Eyewitness Story

Book:Two Years in the Forbidden City

Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City

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