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March 2015
Selectors: Anne Hudson and Elissa Zimmer
The theme for this year's annual Women's History Month is: Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives. Elissa and I have selected print and online resources that should introduce you to some very interesting women.
Biographies of Women pictured in the photo's accompanying the print display at the Purdy Library.
Featured Websites, March 2015
Books from the Catalog
Palestinian Women by ISBN: 9781848134256Publication Date: 2011-02-24Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948.
Rosa Parks by ISBN: 0313352186Publication Date: 2011-07-31This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride.
Sojourner Truth by ISBN: 9780313357299Publication Date: 2011-01-01Born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, in 1797, the woman named Isabella escaped to freedom in 1826 and adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Throughout her long life, she was a tireless crusader for human dignity and freedom.
Featured Databases March 2015
- America: history and life This link opens in a new windowOnline version of: America: history and life. Includes full-text of hundreds of journals originally published in paper.
- Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new windowA searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature.
Featured Videos March 2015
The following are videos of some of the National Women's History Project's Honorees.