In celebration of National Women’s History Month, the library is pleased to offer two database trials perfect for research in women’s history.
Try them out and let us know what you think!
Archive for March, 2007
Letters and Diaries…trial databases perfect for Women’s History Month
Monday, March 5th, 2007March is National Women’s History Month
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Lamson Library celebrates National Women’s History Month with a display of materials focusing on this year’s theme, Generations of Women Moving History Forward.
The National Women’s History Project has more information on this year’s celebration and other educational programs and resources. During March, the library blog will connect you to local events on campus so come back often!
In the meantime, check out one of this year’s top Women’s History Books, as noted in the February 15, 2007 edition of Booklist magazine.
- Unbowed: a memoir by Wangari Maathai (Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize)
- African Queen: the real life of the Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
- Chrysalis: Marie Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis by Kim Todd
- Beatrix Potter: a life in nature by Linda Lear
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China’s eternal first lady by Laura Tyson Li
- Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the sun king by Antonia Fraser
- A woman of uncertain character: the amourous and radical adventures of my mother Jennie by Clancy Sigal
- Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man by Dale Peterson
- Virgin: the untouched history by Hanne Blank
- Anna of all the Russias: the life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein
