Beginning with her own story of coping with her husband's suicide, Eleanora Betsy Ross takes the reader beyond the silence and shame often associated with suicide and shatters some of the most pervasive myths surrounding this common tragedy. By examining the dynamics of after-suicide bereavement and using dozens of real-life case histories, After Suicide offers hope for the survivors and helps them maintain their sanity and poise during this most difficult time.Backed by years of research ...

Tells the legend of Betsy Ross, a Patriot and seamstress who may have sewn America's first flag.

The use of female sideline reporters is the fastest-growing new aspect of televised broadcasts of professional and college football. Names like Suzy Kolber, Erin Andrews, and Andrea Kremer are now as well known as any of the men in the booth. In recent years women have been sports columnists and reporters, talk-show hosts, even coaches and team administrators. And yet there has never been a book about this phenomenon.Former ESPN news anchor Betsy Ross fills this void with Playing B...

FightFight II: To Fight AgainFight III: To Fight BackFight IV: To Fight OnLeslie, John, Kent, Ashley, and the others strive to start a new life after leaving the Army life behind. The FIGHT series shows an inside look to what many veterans face daily as they return to what they used to know and their families. Not all veterans struggle, but many do without knowing how to describe what it is they're thinking or feeling. FIGHT gives a voice to those who feel they...

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"A nation thrills, a nation bleeds,A nation follows where it leads,And every man is proud to yieldHis life upon a crimson fieldFor Betsy's battle flag.” – Minna Irving, “Betsy’s Battle Flag”A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important...

Betsy Ross was a skilled seamstress whose work became a lasting symbol of the United States. This book introduces readers to her life—from her early years as a young upholsterer in Philadelphia to the story of how she may have sewn the first American flag. Clear, straightforward text explains how Betsy’s sewing skills, determination, and patriotism made her an important figure during the American Revolution. In support of state and national social studies standards, this biography brings B...

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman behind the flag.Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled crea...

A "first-rate" biography of the seamstress and patriot and a vivid portrait of life in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia: "Authoritative and engrossing" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Finalist, Cundill Prize in HistoryBetsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and ...

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells the story of a fierce patriot who certainly hel...

The story behind the legend...Long before Betsy Ross became a national icon for making the first US flag, she was a quiet Quaker girl swept up against her will by events leading to the American Revolution.Philadelphia, 1770. Eighteen-year-old Betsy Griscom falls in love with a man her parents can't accept-non-Quaker John Ross, whose family has strong ties to powerful colonial government offices. Despite Betsy's best intentions to stay within the safety of her Quake...

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells the story of a fierce patriot who certainly hel...