Theme: Women Who Have Made Great Achievements
March is Women’s History Month. Each year, the Department of Defense honors the women who have shaped U.S. history and made contributions to pave the way forward. The innumerable accomplishments of women have shattered obstacles, warranting commemoration during Women's History Month and year-round recognition.
Women's History Month originated in 1981, when Congress passed Public Law 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week." Then after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed Public Law 100-9 which designated the month of March, 1987, as "Women's History Month."
This year's theme is Women Who Have Made Great Achievements.
Below is a sampling of LRC books in support of Women's History Month. These books are either available in the LRC or can be accessed online as eBooks through our EBSCOhost eBook Collection database subscription (login with your library credentials or use the credentials posted on Blackboard on the LRC information page). Please contact the LRC if you have any questions.
eBooks available through EBSCOhost database
The first fifteen: How Asian American women became federal judges by ISBN: 9781978824515Publication Date: 2021-09-30
Intrepid woman: Betty Lussier's secret war, 1942-1945 by ISBN: 9781591144496Publication Date: 2010-11-15
Political pioneer of the press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her transnational crusade for social justice by ISBN: 9781498530323Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Stories from trailblazing women lawyers: Lives in the law by ISBN: 9781479865963Publication Date: 2018-05-22
A woman's war: The professional and personal journey of the Navy's first African American female intelligence officer by ISBN: 9780810867932Publication Date: 2009-12-08
Women and war in the 21st Century: A country-by-country guide by ISBN: 9781440857652Publication Date: 2018-08-17
You let some girl beat you?: The story of Ann Meyers Drysdale by ISBN: 9781933016788Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Daughter of the boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery family's civil rights legacy by ISBN: 9781641603034Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Books available in the LRC and on display during March
Agent Josephine: American beauty, French hero, British spy by Call Number: GV1785 .B3 L48 2022ISBN: 9781541700666Publication Date: 2022-07-12
Through the glass ceiling to the stars: The story of the first American woman to command a space mission by Call Number: TL789.85 .C63 A3 2021ISBN: 9781950994052Publication Date: 2021-10-19
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Call Number: KF8745 .O25 T48 2019ISBN: 9780399589287Publication Date: 2019-03-19
The league of wives: The untold story of the women who took on the U.S. government to bring their husbands home by Call Number: DS559.4 .L44 2019ISBN: 9781250161109Publication Date: 2019-04-02
First to the front: the untold story of Dickey Chapelle, trailblazing female war correspondent by Call Number: PN4874 .C44 R56 2023ISBN: 9781250276575Publication Date: 2023-07-11
The light we carry: overcoming in uncertain times by Call Number: E909 .O24 A3 2022ISBN: 9780593237465Publication Date: 2022-11-15
Overnight code: the life of Raye Montague, the woman who revolutionized naval engineering by Call Number: VM140 .M778 2021ISBN: 9781641602594Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Women warriors: an unexpected history by Call Number: UB416 .T65 2019ISBN: 9780807064320Publication Date: 2019-02-26
I'm still standing: from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen-- my journey home by Call Number: DS79.764 .U6 J64 2010ISBN: 9781416567486Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Some of the content on this page came from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute's page for Women's History Month.