Diane Eickhoff

Books

Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women's Rights
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 43,880. Language: English. Originally Published: October 1, 2016 by Quindaro Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Young adult or teen » Biography & Autobiography » Historical, Nonfiction » Young adult or teen » Biography & Autobiography » Women, Nonfiction » Young adult or teen » History » General, Nonfiction » Young adult or teen » History » United States
The remarkable story of one of the early women movement's most effective leaders, a newspaper publisher who took the campaign for suffrage to Bleeding Kansas. In the mid-1800s brave women began breaking the taboo of remaining silent at public gatherings. They began signing their names to petitions and flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. No one represented this early struggle...
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 62,060. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2006 by Quindaro Press. Categories: Nonfiction » History, Nonfiction » History » North America » USA, Nonfiction » History » North America » USA
The author's meticulous quest to collect her subject's scattered writings has yielded a biographical triumph with striking parallels to today's #MeToo movement. In 1998, author Diane Eickhoff stumbled upon a handmade historical exhibit in a small Kansas museum and was introduced to one of the most remarkable women in feminist history. Clarina Nichols (1810-1885) was a newspaper publisher and...
Historic and Civil War Sites in the Kansas-Missouri Border Region: A Road Trip Guide to the 'Big Divide'
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 46,840. Language: English. Originally Published: June 1, 2021 by Quindaro Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » Museums of the World, Nonfiction » Travel » Specialties & interests » Family, Nonfiction » Travel » By region » North America, Nonfiction » History » North America » USA
Fuel up the car and get ready to rethink everything you knew about the Civil War. Did you know it was on the prairies of Kansas where the first shots in America's bloodiest conflict were fired? That it was Missouri where the first African-American soldiers were sent into battle? That a fight broke out on the floor of the U.S. Congress over the fate of tiny Lecompton, Kansas? These are among the...