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Historian Gretchen Skidmore and journalist Denise Kiernan talked about how women’s roles changed during World War II, from joining the war effort as part of the workforce to using their soci…

In 1898, George Vanderbilt II brought his new bride, Edith Dresser, to Biltmore, his 175,000 square foot estate. In her book, The Last Castle, Denise Kiernan recounts their lives there and E…

Established during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a production site for the Manhattan Project . In her book, The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan told the story of the women who…

Karen Abbott talked about her book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, in which she recounts the covert exploits of four women during the Civil War: Belle…

Denise Kiernan talked about her book, The Girls of Atomic City:The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, at the 2013 National Book Festival on the National Mall in Washingto…

Denise Kiernan talked about her book, The Girls of the Atomic City, in which she tells the story of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town created in 1942 as one of the Manhattan Project’s secret citi…