Theme: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
March is Women’s History Month where we recognize the achievements of incredible women throughout American history. This year's theme is Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.
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."
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 (login credentials are posted on Blackboard or see LRC staff).
eBooks available through EBSCOhost database
Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women, With a New Preface by ISBN: 9780674237667Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II by ISBN: 9780252041716Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out by ISBN: 9780801446641Publication Date: 2008-05-15
Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II by ISBN: 9780822393351Publication Date: 2011-08-08
An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I by ISBN: 9781640123069Publication Date: 2020-07-01
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by ISBN: 9780674986688Publication Date: 2019-05-06
Templates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s by ISBN: 9781625345516Publication Date: 2021-01-30
Books available in the LRC and on display during March
Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military by Call Number: UB418 .W65 B53 2013ISBN: 9780451239228Publication Date: 2013-02-05
American Women Report World War I: An Anthology of Their Journalism by Call Number: D632 .A73 2021ISBN: 9781574418255Publication Date: 2021-04-15
Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. military, 1945-1980 by Call Number: UB418.W65 R68 2021ISBN: 9781469664422Publication Date: 2021-09-30
Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War by Call Number: HQ1236 .S535 2020ISBN: 9780231551182Publication Date: 2020-01-07
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
Proving Ground: The Untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer by Call Number: QA76.2.A2 K56 2022ISBN: 9781538718285Publication Date: 2022-07-26
The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning From the War in Iraq by Call Number: DS79.76 .H653 2009ISBN: 9780811705165Publication Date: 2009-06-23
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Call Number: DS559.46 .B53 2021ISBN: 9781541768208Publication Date: 2021-02-23
Content in the theme box above was borrowed from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute Special Observances.