{"id":230,"date":"2008-03-20T07:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/230"},"modified":"2008-04-19T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T21:27:54","slug":"march-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/230","title":{"rendered":"March: Women’s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

March is Women’s History Month<\/font>.<\/big><\/strong> If you’re interested in researching a topic related to women’s history, resources are plentiful.<\/p>\n

\"National<\/p>\n

The Library of Congress<\/a> is providing information and resources online in celebration of women, using materials it has collected over the last 200 years. Resources include lesson plans; images of notable women<\/a>; a selection of audio\/video files, photographs, memoirs of women\u2019s experiences at war<\/a> from the Veterans History Project; and more.<\/p>\n

The National Women’s History Project<\/a> provides a history of National Women’s History Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The National Women’s History Museum<\/a> has many online exhibits, including “First But Not the Last: Women Who Ran for President<\/font>.” This exhibit highlights the campaigns of 12 women who announced their intentions to run for the Presidency, out of about 35 known to have done so over the years.<\/p>\n

Your University Library<\/strong> has many resources about women’s history also, including reference works such as Encyclopedia of American women in business: from colonial times to the present<\/em><\/font>, circulating books such as Inventing black women: African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000<\/em><\/font>, and articles and other materials in various Library databases. Do a subject keyword<\/strong> search in the Library catalog<\/a> for women history<\/strong> to see a sampling of subject topics on which materials are available, or ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance in formulating a search to find materials on more specific topics, such as “women political candidates.”<\/p>\n

An especially relevant database is Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000<\/a>. This database includes documents, images, web links, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of women’s history in the U.S., and teaching tools such as lesson plans. Learn, for example, about the Guerrilla Girls<\/font> organization and their efforts to expose sexism in art and film, read excerpts from the hospital diary of Mary E. Shelton<\/font> (a Civil War era nurse in Nashville), find speeches given at the Congress of Women<\/font> (held as part of the the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago) such as “Study of Greek Art” and “Progress of Fifty Years,” or research the Hull House<\/font> of Chicago (a settlement house that attracted many female residents who later became prominent and influential reformers at various levels).<\/p>\n

\"Government<\/p>\n

The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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