Category Archives: Meg Waite Clayton

Nathalia Holt, NPR Chat About the Role of Women in Rocket Science

Nathalia-Holt-Rise-of-the-Rocket-Girls

Nathalia Holt spoke with NPR’s Ari Shapiro and one of the original “rocket girls,” Barbara Paulson, about women’s role in shaping the American space project. Nathalia’s book The Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, is a collective biography of a group of women who “did the math” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s.

Read More »

Related Books and Authors

Also posted in Denise Kiernan, Hidden Figures, Karen Abbott, Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, LitBits, Margot Lee Shetterly, Nathalia Holt, The Girls of Atomic City, The Race For Paris | Tagged , , | Comments closed

James E. Mills Highlights Another Racial Disparity — Minority Outdoor Adventurers

James Edward Mills, The Adventure Gap

Adventurer and journalist James Edward Mills highlights another racial disparity: the low number of minority wilderness adventurers. This concern carries the opportunity to stimulate healthy conversation about race and gender disparity in our schools and communities.

Read More »

Related Books and Authors

Also posted in Andrew Maraniss, Daniel Bergner, James Edward Mills, LitBits, Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Strong Inside, The Adventure Gap, The Race For Paris | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed
  • Garth Stein: A SUDDEN LIGHT