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Celebrate Women’s History Month

[ March 6, 2013; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Celebrate Women’s History Month on March 6, 1-2 p.m., with our free webcast, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, for students in grades 9-12.

Cokie Roberts hosts this fascinating discussion of the struggles to establish a nation as seen through the eyes of our nation’s first First Ladies: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison.

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Time to give thanks to the women of Valley Forge

(Courtesy Fine Books & Collections magazine)
Sometimes a book comes along, smacks readers in the head, alleviates our ignorance, and leaves us with a new perspective on something we thought we already knew.
That’s what happened when I read Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment (Potomac Books, 2009) by former historic interpreter Nancy Loane. The title [...]

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