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12/31/01 - About Catherine the Great
Biography, bibliography and links for Catherine the II of Russia whose reign saw Russia's expansion and an educational and literary flowering among the elite.
12/29/01 - About May Sinclair
Biography, bibliography and links for May Sinclair, novelist, suffragist and World War I ambulance driver.
12/22/01 - About Toni Morrison
Biography, bibliography and links for Toni Morrison, African American author and winner of the 1993 Novel Prize for Literature.
12/22/01 - About Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino
Biography, bibliography and links for the woman convicted of treason as "Tokyo Rose." Includes information about her pardon and the public campaign that led to that pardon, and also includes several images of Iva Toguri in the 1940s.
12/15/01 - About Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Biography, bibliography and links for Jackie Kennedy, wife of the 35th president of the United States and later married to one of the world's richest men. Includes images of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy during her White House years.
12/15/01 - About Marie Antoinette
Biography, bibliography and links for the infamous queen, best known for her role in the French Revolution.
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11/15/01 - Top Picks: Albums Featuring Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Today, women composers of the medieval and Renaissance periods are becoming better known. Many were women leading religious lives who had the time and education to devote to composition. Here are some picks of music by women composers or with female subjects and performers, selected for diversity and quality.
11/15/01 - Top Picks: Albums Featuring Women in Jazz and the Blues
The history of jazz and the blues has featured a few fantastic women as vocalists and some, though fewer, as instrumentalists. These selections highlight some of the women who've made contributions to jazz and blues history. If you're interested in expanding or deepening your knowledge of women in jazz and the blues, here are some suggested albums to get started with.
11/15/01 - Top Picks: Albums Featuring Women in Classical Music: 19th/20th Centuries
A standard challenge: "Why no women Mozarts?" Besides the fact that there's only been one male Mozart, could we have known if Mozart's sister had great talent, given family and social roles, expectations and education for women? But some women nearly transcended those odds.
11/10/01 - Top Picks: 2002 Calendars Celebrating Women's History
With a calendar honoring women's history, every month can be women's history month. Choose a wall calendar with 12 months, an engagement calendar with weekly pages or a daily calendar with plenty of quotes. When the year's over, consider using the pictures for bulletin boards and other purposes.
11/10/01 - Top Picks: Collectible Barbies
Barbie Dolls are not a politically-correct toy -- her body is like no real woman's and these are more stereotypes than accurate history. You won't find Eleanor Roosevelt Barbie, though you will find Marilyn and Cher. But these may be a young Barbie fan's pathway to an interest in history, or an adult's light-hearted reminder of period fashions and popular culture.
11/08/01 - Top Picks: Emily Dickinson Biographies and Criticism
Emily Dickinson, a creative poet of the 19th century, was known only by a small circle during her lifetime. It wasn't until after her death that most of her poems were published. Her life and work still fascinate readers and are studied widely. Listed here alphabetically by title are selected biographies and works of literary criticism.
11/08/01 - Top Picks: Emily Dickinson Poems and Letters
Selected collections of Emily Dickinson's poems plus collections of her letters - with commentary - are included in this collection of Guide Picks.
11/05/01 - Top Picks: Books for Girls 5-9
Girls in this age range are beginning readers, but usually still love a story read to them sometimes too. They're exploring their place in the world, so books that provide role models - real and fantasy - are good choices. Girls at 5-9 usually like colorful illustrations, touches of humor or surprise, and a mixture of courage and compassion in the heroines.
11/01/01 - Top Picks: Women's History Gifts Beyond Books
More ideas for gifts related to women's history. Whether you're making or buying a gift for someone else, or hinting to someone about what you'd like, here are some creative and unusual gift and project ideas for the person interested in women's history. Quilt pattern, posters, mugs, tote bags, collectibles and more.
11/01/01 - Top Picks: American Girl Pastimes Books
Hands-on history: For each of six eras, there's a cookbook, a crafts book, a theater kit with a play to put on and ideas for staging the play and a set of paper dolls with clothes. Plus, there are boxed sets with all four paperbacks for any one of the characters.
10/25/01 - Before You Buy Women's History Gifts for Girls
You're interested in women's history? Here are some considerations to help you select a gift to pique the interest of a friend, daughter, niece or granddaughter, or to feed her on-going interest in women's lives and women's history.
10/25/01 - Product Review: Books: The Worlds of the American Girls
A summary of the series of books introducing seven time periods in American history. The target age group is 8-12, and each book focuses on the life of girls growing up in that time. Available for Felicity (1774), Josefina (1824), Kirsten (1854), Addy (1864), Samantha (1904) and Molly (1944). Kit (1934) new in 2002.
10/23/01 - Top Picks: Books for Girls 8-12
Girls in the preteen years are at an important transition point: they need strong female role models before they enter the years when they question whether girls can be both intelligent and popular. I've listed here some of my favorite women's history books for this age group. Some are collections of short sketches, perfect for the active or impatient reader.
10/22/01 - Top Picks: Cleopatra Gifts
A diverse selection of gifts for someone interested in Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt: a recent book, three movies and two documentaries, costumes, posters, the classic Shakespeare drama in book or audio and a collectible doll.
10/21/01 - Top Picks: History Mysteries Books 1-9
These excellent books for girls 8-13 each feature a resourceful and courageous heroine facing both everyday problems and issues related to the history of her time. I recommend these as a great way to introduce young readers to women's history. Hardcover or paperback; some in library binding.
10/21/01 - Top Picks: History Mysteries Books 10-15
More in the series of History Mysteries. Part of the American Girl Collection.
10/21/01 - Top Picks: History Mysteries - Boxed Sets
Each set includes three books from the History Mysteries series.
10/20/01 - Top Picks: Recent Biographies of Women
While many people won't wade through a book about women's history, they will read biographies of famous or notable women. Thus, for many people, biographies are their main access to issues with which women's history is concerned, including how women lived their lives, how being female affected their lives and how they accepted or rebelled against expected roles.
10/15/01 - Top Picks: Books on the Salem Witch Trials
The 1692 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Salem Village, Massachusetts, has fascinated historians and the average reader alike for more than three hundred years. How could neighbor turn against neighbor? What light does this episode shed on women's lives? On human potential for similar "witch hunts" even in the 20th and 21st centuries?
10/15/01 - Top Picks: Books on Women and the American Civil War
Your Women's History Guide picks ten books that you'll want to consider reading, if you're interested in women and the Civil War. Topics range from overviews including many topics, to first-person diaries, to studies of the Sanitary Commission, to responses to Gone With the Wind and its images of Southern women around the time of the Civil War.
10/12/01 - Top 100 Women of History On the Net #51-60
From Willa Cather to Sojourner Truth, find out who are the most popular historical women as measured by web search frequency.
10/01/01 - Top Picks: Books on the Salem Witch Trials
Your Women's History Guide rates ten books worth reading to explain, from a variety of perspectives, the incredible experience in American history when neighbor accused neighbor, and many were executed as witches.
09/17/01 - Top 100 Women of History On the Net #61-70
From Mother Jones to Annie Oakley, find out who are the most popular historical women as measured by web search frequency.
09/10/01 - Top 100 Women of History On the Net #71-80
From Colette to Rosie the Riveter, find out who are the most popular historical women as measured by web search frequency.
08/23/01 - Top 100 Women of History On the Net #81-100
From Rachel Carson to Margaret Mead, from Jane Addams to Sacagawea, find out who are the most popular historical women as measured by web search frequency.
07/17/01 - Katharine Graham - June 16, 1916 - July 17, 2001
"One of the 20th century's most powerful and interesting women," Katharine Graham led The Washington Post through its printing of the Pentagon Papers and through the tough investigation of the Watergate scandals.
07/11/01 - Supplying the Bricks of History: Writing Women's Life Stories
Review of a book that helps women write their life stories for personal development and for use in historical research.
05/28/01 - Virginia Women
Women have played important roles in the history of the commonwealth of Virginia - and Virginia has played an important part in the lives of women. Includes a series of women's history sites in Virginia. First in a planned bimonthly series of women from states, provinces and nations.
05/11/01 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Reminiscences
May of 1851 brought one of the most momentous meetings for women's rights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony and convinced her to join the struggle for the vote and other rights. Thirty years later, Stanton looked back at that meeting and other early years of working together: writing and making speeches, caring for Stanton's children, answering critics, wearing Bloomers and more.
04/20/01 - Mother Jones: Most Dangerous Woman in America
A book review of the 2001 biography by Elliott C. Gorn, recovering facts about labor activist Mary Harris Jones, 'Mother Jones,' which are omitted from or are exaggerated in her Autobiography.
3/29/01 - Myths of Women's History
Some "Just Ain't So Stories": feminists burning bras, Popess Joan, Betsy Ross making the first American flag, Jane Fonda turning POWs in to their captors and getting them killed, and Hillary Clinton as defense lawyer, or organizer of violent protests, for murderers. I repeat: the stories "just ain't so!"
3/20/01 - Women and Unions - the Women's Trade Union League
Working class women, immigrant and native-born, worked with wealthy and middle-class allies to organize unions, support women's strikes and pass laws to improve working conditions for women, children and men.
2/28/01 - Women and Unions - Late 19th Century
By the latter half of the 19th century, women tried in many places to organize themselves to work for better wages and working conditions. Discover a few of the early unions and read about the women who led the efforts.
2/20/01 - Women and Unions - Early America
Very soon after women began entering the work force outside the home, they began organizing for better working conditions. The first such organization was when the "Lowell Mill girls" decided they'd had enough.
1/28/01 - Women Presidents and Prime Ministers of the 20th Century
How many women presidents and prime ministers have held office in the 20th century? How many can you name? Here's an exhaustive list, with links to biographies, quotations and more information for many of them.
1/18/01 - Women Marchers Attacked at Inauguration
At the 1913 Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, militant suffragists marched, but not all the half-million observers were sympathetic to their goals.
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