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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. |

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)
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Women's History Month
Articles, 2002

Maya Angelou
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Relatives identify subjects in
Carnegie Photo exhibit (3/28/02)
Forum: Let's make some
noise about Rachel Carson (3/24/02)
Carnegie Library brings in Maya Angelou to celebrate
phenomenal women (2/28/02)
Quiz: Can you
name these women? (2/28/02
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
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."
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.
Gale -
Free Resources - Women's History Month - Includes biographies, a quiz,
activities, a timeline, etc.
Women's Rights: 1848
to the Present - This site contains "articles, speeches, biographies and
links relating to women's rights."
Women's
History Month - From the Learning Network, features links to timelines,
biographies, and more.
WSSLinks
- A collaborative project of the Women's Studies Section Collection Development
Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Historia
- Women Scientists in History.
"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.
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.
Political Culture
and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage - Featured on the website of the
National Museum of Women's History, proposed for Washington, DC.
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.
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.
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."
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.
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Jewish Women's Archive
Hawaii Women's Heritage
Project
Women's History
at About.com
Women's
History Celebration
Women's History Resources
King's
College Women's History Resource Site
Women
in History
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