Category Archives: Women’s History Month

Celebrating Women’s History Month: Essential Reads on Feminism

Looking for your next feminist read? Check out these recommendations from the New York Public Library and look up the titles in Primo to find the book at Collins Library or request it from Summit.https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/essential-feminism

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: Feminist Periodicals

Wondering what’s new in the field? Feminist Periodicals is an open access repository of digitized contents pages of 150 academic journals and pop culture magazines for researchers and scholars to view what is currently being published in the fields of … Continue reading

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: Independent Voices: Feminist Newsletters

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. The Feminist Collection includes over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped … Continue reading

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: College Women

College Women is a searchable portal of diaries, letters, scrapbooks and photographs from the archives of a select group of the earliest women’s colleges in the United States, known as the Seven Sisters. Current contributors include the libraries and archives … Continue reading

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Women’s History Month: Bringing Women’s Studies to Puget Sound

Explore the history of the Women’s Studies Program (now Gender & Queer Studies) through university records! This digital teaching collection uses yearbooks, course bulletins, issues of The Trail, administrative documents, and more, ranging in date between 1969-1990, to explore the … Continue reading

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The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection

The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project from the Digital Public Library of America to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s … Continue reading

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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection

Explore nearly 2000 digitized items, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women’s organizations in this collection from the Library of Congress that documents the suffrage campaign.https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate and explore the vital role of women in American history through resources from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, NEH, Smithsonian Institution, and more. https://womenshistorymonth.gov/

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Poetic Women

As Women’s History Month comes to a close and we transition to National Poetry Month in April, your reading list might benefit from a combination of the two! This post features recent poetry collections by women authors available at Collins … Continue reading

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Looking Forward: The Feminist Utopia Project

Women’s History Month encourages reflection and engagement with women’s historical and contemporary contributions to American society, but what of the future? In The Feminist Utopia Project: fifty-seven visions of a wildly better future, editors Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff … Continue reading

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