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Suggested Reading

Sylvia Hoehns Wright: A Path Worn Smooth

Sylvia Hoehns Wright is  a consultant, lecturer & wordsmith that specializes in business, environmental and communications theories.
She has been the recipient of the 2008 Turn America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic Award and the 2005 VA Horticulture Foundation faculty travel award.  Wright is an avid landscape gardener and conducts eco-gardening workshops and was featured by VA [...]

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Kid Lit Celebrates Women’s History Month

Kid Lit decided to commemorate Women’s History Month by creating a special blog that specializes in childrens and young adults literature for women. This blog is also in partnership with The Fourth Musketeer, a blog about books that endorse notable women in history.  
The “Kidlitosphere community ( blogs about kids books) has never had an organized month-long event honoring women’s [...]

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Check out this informative blog on womens history

 Emily Ruth, a 90-year old blogger, has embraced web 2.0 with her informative entries on women’s contributions into history.
It’s a very detailed blog.spot that delves deeply in to women senators, the White House, Martha Stewart as well as a laundry list of other hot button topics. Here is an excerpt:
Eight years later, on November 1, [...]

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Book Review:Addie of the Flint Hills, A Prairie Child During The Depression

 Most people tend to say that history  repeats itself.  There’s validity to that statement since the U.S is currently dealing with a dire recession that is quite reminiscent for those who grew up in the the Great Depression era.  History is repeating itself some-what, but women can now be armed with a  treasure that will propel them emotionally against the [...]

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‘A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and The Battle For The Ballot’ by Mary Walton

A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and The Battle For The Ballot by Mary Walton is a cogent non-fiction account of how suffragist Alice Paul and a slew of female crusaders ( Lucretia Mott, Mabel Vernon, Jane Addams, Maud Malone, Anna Shaw, Ida Wells-Barnett and Harriet Stanton Blatch) fought for women’s inalienable right to vote inspite [...]

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Women’s History on HistoryNet

A special section on Women’s History has been added to HistoryNet, Website of the world’s largest publisher of history-oriented magazines.

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Getting a Word in Rosalie Edge-Wise, in 10 seconds with Al Gore

Getting a Word in Rosalie Edge-Wise, in 10 seconds with  Al Gore

NWHP  Blog
Women’s History Month
By Dyana Z. Furmansky
Getting a Word in Rosalie Edge-Wise, in 10 seconds with  Al Gore
In November 2009 I was Number 41 at Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstore, waiting for Vice President Al Gore to autograph my copy of his latest book about climate change. I also carried a copy of my latest book, [...]

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HerStoria – new women’s history magazine

HerStoria is a new magazine of women’s history, launched in the UK in March 2009 to coincide with women’s history month. Our passion is to bring women’s history to a popular audience -’to write women back into history’ – with articles, news, reviews, women’s history walks and listings. Print and digtal subscriptions are available (and [...]

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Suggested Reading: Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages

Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, Carol Smallwood, eds.
All Things That Matter Press; Dec. 2009
“This unique collection includes over 50 articles by American women who revisit, celebrate, and share defining moments in their lives. Readers will see the universal in milestones of body, mind, family, career, and personal empowerment-whether joyous or difficult, chosen or [...]

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Book Review: My Dream of Stars by Anousheh Ansari

My Dream Of Stars is the story of a modern day woman realizing her dreams, and in the process, making history.
Anousheh Ansari was born in 1966 and spent her childhood in Iran. She moved to America with her family after the Islamic Revolution.  Ansari earned both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree.  As an adult, she [...]

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