Women Working: Brooklyn’s Can-Do Yard (Part 2)

Women working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in World War II did all the jobs men had done.

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No Irish Need Apply—but Thank God They Did

Anti-Irish prejudice in America: how it affected my characters, and my family.

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Brooklyn’s Can-Do Yard (Part 1)

My characters are not me, but they live in me. Two of them worked at the Brooklyn Navy yard before and during World War II. They urged me to go take a tour. I did.

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