Women's History Resources
"For most of history, anonymous was a woman."
-Virginia Woolf
Listen
Podcasts:
Backstory: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
The Agitators: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
(Some) Influential Female Musical Artists:
Read
Book Lists:
RHS Learning Commons Women's History Reading List (These books are all available through the RHS Library Collection)
BPL Women's History Month Staff Recommendations (sign up for a BPL ecard for free and download Overdrive and use your ecard to access eBook & audiobook versions)
Articles:
African American Women in the Military During WWII
The 19th Amendment: A Crash Course
Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights
Honoring Jewish American Women
View
Film:
25 Must-See Films by Women Directors
Netflix:
Feminists: What Were they Thinking?
Amazon Prime Video:
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Virtual Exhibits:
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists
A Petal from the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
A Collection of Women's History Through Photos and Documents
Images of African American Women Changemakers
Photographs of Women during the Civil War
Visual Art Education:
Exploring Portraits: Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
National Gallery: Women and Art