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Post-gazette.com's Women's History Month 2002 page contains current articles, a guide to events, and an archive of previous articles published in the Post-Gazette.
There is also guide to  Internet resources.

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Clockwise from the top: Rachel Carson, Madame Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Curie as a young woman and, center, Susan B. Anthony. (Daniel Marsula - (Post- Gazette illustration)


Women's History Month Articles, 2002

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Maya Angelou

dot.gif (78 bytes)Relatives identify subjects in Carnegie Photo exhibit (3/28/02)
dot.gif (78 bytes)Forum: Let's make some noise about Rachel Carson (3/24/02)
dot.gif (78 bytes)Carnegie Library brings in Maya Angelou to celebrate phenomenal women (2/28/02)
dot.gif (78 bytes)Quiz: Can you name these women? (2/28/02
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Help the Carnegie: Can you identify any of the women in these historic photos? (2/28/02)

 


Women's History Month events


The Kids' Corner looks at Women's History
Articles from the PG feature, "Kid's Corner"


Women's history resources on the Internet

dot.gif (78 bytes)National Women's History Project - Whose mission is "to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs."

dot.gif (78 bytes)American Women's History: A Research Guide - "American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Gale - Free Resources - Women's History Month -  Includes biographies, a quiz, activities, a timeline, etc.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women's Rights: 1848 to the Present - This site contains "articles, speeches, biographies and links relating to women's rights."

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women's History Month - From the Learning Network, features links to timelines, biographies, and more.

dot.gif (78 bytes)WSSLinks   - A collaborative project of the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women's History Resources - Links to oral history projects with excerpts or transcripts online, descriptions of women-focused material within the major ongoing digital projects in the United States, and links to other sites of interest to academics.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Ancestry.com: Women's History Month -  Databases on women and a Web page dedicated to women's history. The new databases include the Pennsylvania Women in the Revolutionary War, the Biographical Cyclopedia of U.S. Women, Women of the Century, and American WWI Mother's Pilgrimage.

dot.gif (78 bytes)The National Women's Hall of Fame: The Learning Center -  Who was the first African American woman to perform with the Metropolitan Opera? Find out about the achievements of women by playing the Name Game and reading the many biographies contained in the section, "Women of the Hall."

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women in World History -  "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood," said Nobel-Prize winning scientist Marie Curie. Read about the lives of great women rulers, heroes and innovators from all over the world, with a special emphasis on those from the first millennium.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Historia -  Women Scientists in History.

dot.gif (78 bytes)"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 - Thirty-eight pictures include individual portraits, photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage display, and cartoons.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Suffragists Oral History Project -  In the early 1970s, the Regional Oral History Office conducted interviews with suffragist leaders Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Jeannette Rankin, Mabel Vernon, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, and five rank-and-file suffragists. In the 1990s, the transcripts were encoded using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines for SGML. The result are fully searchable versions of the interviews.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage - Featured on the website of the National Museum of Women's History, proposed for Washington, DC.

dot.gif (78 bytes)World Book: The Quest for Equality -  Although an amendment to give women the right to vote was brought to Congress as early as 1878, it wasn't until 1920 that the 19th Amendment was passed. View archival photos as you read about the history of women's suffrage.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women's Ordination - With an alternate title Presenting the Case for Ordaining Women in the Catholic Church, this site provides over one thousand articles collected by Catholic theologians, plus a summary of the two sides of the debate.

dot.gif (78 bytes)Women in Journalism  - The Women in Journalism Project interviewed almost sixty women who, according to the site, "have made significant contributions to society through careers in journalism since the 1920s."

dot.gif (78 bytes)A Celebration of Women Writers - Links to free digitized editions of published works by women throughout history. Genres include novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works.

dot.gif (78 bytes)African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
dot.gif (78 bytes)Jewish Women's Archive
dot.gif (78 bytes)Hawaii Women's Heritage Project
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Women's History at About.com
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dot.gif (78 bytes)King's College Women's History Resource Site
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