Susan Ware, celebrated feminist historian and biographer, is the author of American Women's History and Letter to the World, among other books. She is Honorary Women's Suffrage Centennial Historian at the Schlesinger Library and general editor of American National Biography. Ware is serving as a historical consultant to American Experience for its upcoming four-hour suffrage documentary and advising singer-songwriter Shaina Taub on her forthcoming musical based on the life of Alice Paul.
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For Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five prominent historians chose their favorite stories of unsung American figures. From Johnny Appleseed and John Quincy Adams to abolitionist Sojourner Truth and Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, thes... SEE MORE