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Women’s History Month

Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,
Sojourner Truth, Abigail Adams

March is Women’s History Month

From Women’sHistoryMonth.gov – “Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

Books

Citizenship and the Origins of Women’s History in the United States by Teresa Anne Murphy ISBN: 9780812208283

Feminism Unfinished by Dorothy Sue Cobble; Linda Gordon; Astrid Henry ISBN: 9780871406767

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott ISBN: 0231118570

The Reader’s Companion to U. S. Women’s History by Wilma P. Mankiller ISBN: 058506847X

The Religious History of American Women by Catherine A. Brekus (Editor) ISBN: 9780807867990

Women’s History and Ancient History by Sarah B. Pomeroy (Editor) ISBN: 0807819492

Women in Middle Eastern History by Nikki R. Keddie (Editor); Beth Barone (Editor) ISBN: 9780300157468

Women Shaping the South by Angela Boswell; Judith N. McArthur ISBN: 0826264867

More Books

We have many other books in our catalog related to Black History Month. Search our catalog or contact us.

Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) Leading arts and humanities journals with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Art, music, literature, history. Citations only with links to full text where available. 1975 – present
General OneFile Periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues and general interest topics. Includes list of journals accessed.
HeinOnline – Women & The Law This historical archive contains nearly 1,000 fully searchable titles dedicated to Ilene Hein and Margaret Marmion.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective Citations to journal articles and book reviews covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields from a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. 1907 – 1984.
JSTOR Interdisciplinary archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes images, letters, and other primary sources; begins with volume 1 of subscribed titles up to 3-5 years ago of publication. Current content not available. Clarkson journal collections include Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Business III, & Life Sciences.
Military Collection Full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Pop Culture Collection Scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. Useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
U.S. History Collection Scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
World History Collection Scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Government Resources

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

Woman’s History Site from the National Archives

The National Archives celebrates Women’s History Month, recognizing the great contributions that women have made to our nation. Learn about the history of women in the United States by exploring their stories through letters, photographs, film, and other primary sources.

Image Credit: Women Marching in Suffragette Parade, Washington, DC (National Archives)

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

This exhibition from the rich collections of the Library of Congress brings to light remarkable but little-known contributions made by North American women to two popular art forms—illustration and cartooning.

Image Credit: collage of “Selma threw herself at full length on the ground” by Alice Barber Stephens; “Dancing Couples, no. 1” by Anne Harriet Fish and “Tugged” by Anita Kunz (Library of Congress)

Telling All Americans’ Stories: Women’s History

From the lives of young, immigrant women who worked the textile mills at Lowell National Historical Park to those of the female shipyard workers who were essential to the home front during World War II at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park, women’s history can be found at every park. If you want to understand our nation’s history, explore the remarkable legacies of American women.

Image Credit: Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. (1943) Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee. Feb. (Library of Congress)

The Women of Four Wars

The limited but important roles women played in Korea and Vietnam paved the path to more expanded — and in some cases more dangerous — specialties in recent wars.

Image credit: Color digital image of Lee Lane in uniform sitting in the cockpit doorway of a helicopter (Library of Congress)

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