An important part of your History Day project will be finding and learning from primary sources, documents created during the time period being studied by people who lived then. The websites listed below allow you to view primary sources by topic, time period, or type of primary source, such as amendments, petitions, speeches or editorials. To…
Continue reading "Online Primary Sources"This column, compiled by library staff, appears monthly in the Books section of the Columbia Daily Tribune. Each article contains a short list of books on a timely topic. 2026 July America the Beautiful June One Read Finalists May Summer Reading April Silence March Con Men, Cheats and Crooks February The Holocaust and Other Genocides…
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Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women’s history in the United States.
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Each year the National Women’s History Project chooses a theme for Women’s History Month. This year’s theme is “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business.” Over the last century, women saw much change and progress in many areas of their lives, but especially in employment. As men went off to war and women pursued higher…
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As a teen, I thought history was only about presidents, generals and Henry Ford. Perhaps that had something to do with the textbooks in use back in the day. I didn’t realize the biographies I loved to read — Amelia Earhart was a favorite — also counted as history. For more than thirty years, the National…
Continue reading "Women’s History Month: Women in Labor and Business" In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m celebrating the growing genre of “Good for Her.” Good for Her stories have a female main character that fights against an unjust power or system. She often subverts the expected rules to obtain her justice and doesn’t feel bad about it. Good for Her stories present systemically…
Continue reading "Good for Her"You don’t have to be a woman to be angry with the current state of…*gestures vaguely at everything* As we come to the end of Women’s History Month and you’d like some feminine rage and empowered girls to carry you through, check out some of the titles below.
March is Women’s History Month, but here at the Know Your Dystopias underground bunker I am always looking to the future — the depressing, bleak future. So I will recognize this occasion with a roundup of (mostly) recent contributions to dystopian lit written by women that specifically envision what the future might hold for women…
Continue reading "Know Your Dystopias: Women’s History Month Edition"Change is inevitable. But change does not have to be random; it can be strongly influenced by people who speak up and take action. Activists are a key component of change, shining a light on the issues at hand, ensuring they are not forgotten until they are resolved. During this Women’s History Month, let us…
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