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Learn about some of the great women in science from ancient times to the present. Site maintained by Dr. Deborah Crocker at the University of Alabama and Dr. Sethanne Howard, retired from the US Naval Observatory.
Maintained by Agnes Scott College, this site presents biographical essays or comments on women mathematicians as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.
The Library of Congress, Smithsonian, and other U.S. government organizations join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
This program focuses on the Woman's Tea Party in Faneuil Hall on December 15, 1873, and the ways in which the women of that demonstration responded to the injustice of female disenfranchisement.
Author Kathleen (K.M.) Waldvogel talks about her book, Spies, Soldiers, Couriers, & Saboteurs: Women of the American Revolution. In this talk, Waldvogel will explain her research on the stories of little-known women who felt the need to take an active role to help the Patriots defeat the British. As the title of her book suggests, many of these women contributed in unconventional ways.
Historian Laura F. Edwards explains how textiles tell a story of ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Carrie Mae Weems's After Manet is the inspiration for this interactive conversation. Join us and share your observations, interpretations, questions, and ideas, and build on your own first impressions to broaden your understanding of this work of art. This session lasts one hour and is completely interactive.
