Websites for Women’s History Month

National Women’s History Project
http://www.nwhp.org

National Women’s History Month Museum
http://www.nwhm.org

Smithsonian Education-Women’s History Month
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/whm

Department of Education- Women's History
http://www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=26&res_
feature_request=0

Library of Congress– Women’s History Month
http://womenshistorymonth.gov

Law Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/commemorative-observations/
women_history.php

American Memory- American Women
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml

United States Census Bureau- Fact for Features: Women’s History Month
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/
facts_for_features_special_editions/014522.html

National Park Service– Writing Women Back into History
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/PublicAffairs/Womens_History_Month.html

The SWAN Online Catalog
https://swan.mls.lib.il.us/search

Women in History/Biographies

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
NEW/921/LAC

Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
NEW/921/PAL

Michelle Obama by Elizabeth Lightfoot
921/OBA

Julia Alvarez: Novelist and Poet by Clarissa Aykroyd
818/ALV

My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani
921/GHA

Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 by Michael Cunningham
920/CUN

Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Power and Pain by Kristal Brent Zook
920/ZOO

Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting by Michelle Mulligan
305.4886/BOR

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
920/ROB

Feminism

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan
305.896/MOR

In Search of Islamic Feminism by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
305.48/FER

The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith
305.8/SMI

Women’s Rights edited by Jennifer Curry and Lynn Messina
305.42/WOM

Reference Materials

Black Women in America edited by Darlene Clark Hine
REF/920.7208/BLA

Jewish Women in America edited by Paula E. Hyman
REF/920.72/JEW

Notable Hispanic American Women edited by Diane Telgen
REF/920.72/NOT

Youth Services

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J/920/PIN

Rabble Rousers: 20 Women Who Made a Difference by Cheryl Harness
J/920/HAR

Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics by Catherine Thimmesh
J/320.082/THI

Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
J/920/KRU

Extraordinary Women of Medicine by Darlene R. Stille
J/920/STI

Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World by Marilyn Nelson
J/811.54/NEL

Bloomers! by Rhoda Blumberg
J/305.42/BLU

Extraordinary Women of the American West by Judy Alter
J/920/ALT

Audiovisual Materials on Women

Chisholm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed with interviews of  Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Lee
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/CHI 1729

Silent Choices by Faith Pennick
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/SIL 888

Seneca Reflections: 150 Years of Women’s Rights with Madeline Hansen, Judith Wollman, and Melanie Stetson
VIDEO/SPECIAL INTEREST/SEN

The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
CD/NF/FOR

Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell
CD/NF/ROC