Much has been made recently of the War on Women taking place in our nation's Congress and in the governments of many states. Battles are being waged to wrest control of reproduction away from women, fights women thought had been won with the advent of the Pill and the ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973. They were wrong. Fear is at the heart of it all, just as it was back in the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century when immigrants poured into the United States. At that time, the West was open to settlement, and Yankees were determined that it not be settled by the Irish, Poles,...
Much has been made recently of the War on Women taking place in our nation's Congress and in the governments of many states. Battles are being waged t...
Britt Anderson is a college student without a plan for her future when her boyfriend, Andy Hughes, decides to join the navy. It is the early 1950s and Britt is desperate to escape rural Minnesota and share an adventurous life with the man she loves. But as he begins boot camp in Chicago and she begins secretarial school in Minneapolis, Britt soon realizes that her journey to happiness will be more challenging than she realized.
Despite objections from her family and others, Britt abandons her Lutheran roots, joins the Catholic Church, marries Andy, and assumes her wifely duties. A...
Britt Anderson is a college student without a plan for her future when her boyfriend, Andy Hughes, decides to join the navy. It is the early 1950s ...