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Beatrix Potter Bibliography Created: Monday, April 29, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013
A list of books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, including her beloved children's books, plus other works by and about this British woman writer.
Beatrix Potter Created: Monday, April 29, 2013 Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013
The life of Beatrix Potter, from solitary childhood to naturalist to author to farmer.
Lucy Stone 1865 Created: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Lucy Stone portrait is from about 1865.
Lucy Stone 1860s Created: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Lucy Stone, abolitionist and feminist, is shown here in the 1860s.
Lucy Stone 1853 Created: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Picture of Lucy Stone, feminist, from a daguerrotype by Mathew Brady, 1853.
Maria Tallchief Picture Gallery Created: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Maria Tallchief, ballet pioneer, is shown here in 1944.
Women's History Haiku Created: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Fun with women's history: haiku about the study of women in history.
Women's History Resources: Writing Haiku Created: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Why not write haiku as a way of focusing on what's interesting or important about women's history?
Mary Shelley Portrait Created: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
A portrait of writer Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein.
Cleopatra Created: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Cleopatra, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, depicted in a Greek style bust.
Mary Read, Pirate Created: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Mary Read was a notorious pirate -- notorious in part just for being a woman.
Marie Curie Created: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Marie Curie, known more for her laboratory discoveries, also was a professor. She encouraged female students in the sciences.
Athena / Minerva Created: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 Updated: Friday, March 08, 2013
Minerva is here depicted guiding the personification of science, as Mercury carries science around the world.
Timeline Overview Created: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Notes about the timeline on African American women's history: what's included? Plus links to the timeline.
Marian Anderson 1939 Created: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Marian Anderson sings from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, 1939.
Legends: Oprah Honored African American Women Created: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Image of Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, from 2005 at Oprah Winfrey's The Legends Ball.
"Birther" Controversies and the Wars of the Roses Created: Monday, February 04, 2013 Updated: Friday, February 15, 2013
Were claims of the kings involved in the Wars of the Roses tainted by birth controversies?
Who Was Anne of York? Created: Monday, February 04, 2013 Updated: Monday, February 04, 2013
Anne of York had connections to both sides in the Wars of the Roses, both the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
European Witch Hunts: Overview Created: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
An overview of the European witch hunts of the late medieval and early modern eras. Includes links to more details, including a timeline.
Witch Hunts in Europe: Timeline Created: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A chronological view of major events in the history of Europe's witch hunts: accusations, trials and executions of supposed witches.
Malleus Maleficarum Created: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Malleus Maleficarum was meant to be a manual for inquisitors pursuing accusations of practicing harmful magic, or witchcraft. It laid foundations for much of the early modern period's witch pe...
Bibliography on European Witchcraft Persecutions Created: Monday, January 21, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A selection of historical treatments of the witchcraft persecutions of medieval and early modern Europe.
Inauguration 2013 - The Women Created: Monday, January 21, 2013 Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013
Barack Obama's family is shown at the 2013 Inauguration, shortly before the ceremony.
Empress Cixi Picture Gallery Created: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Photographs and portraits of China's Dowager Empress Cixi or Tz'u Hsi.
Rosalba Carriera Created: Monday, January 14, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Pastel on paper by Rosalba Carriera.
The Geography Lesson Created: Monday, January 14, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Mid 19th-century daguerrotype illustrates British education of girls in geography.
Coretta Scott King, 1965 Created: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Coretta Scott King at a civil rights rally, 1965, with her husband and with actor Harry Belafonte.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Quotes Created: Saturday, December 29, 2012 Updated: Saturday, December 29, 2012
Quotes by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, writer and poet who was a figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Quotes from Women in Black History Created: Saturday, December 29, 2012 Updated: Saturday, December 29, 2012
Quotes from women in black history: African American women's words on topics from equality to art to success to living life.
Black History Themes Created: Saturday, December 29, 2012 Updated: Saturday, December 29, 2012
Themes for Black History month or any black history unit: if you're planning to honor black history at your school, library, workplace, club or anywhere else, here are some themes that might inspir...
Key African American Women in Sports Created: Saturday, December 29, 2012 Updated: Saturday, December 29, 2012
Women and African Americans have been shut out of many sports: here are pioneers who broke the race or sex barrier in their sports, or whose excellence in sports warrants recognition.
Women in Politics: Transitions Created: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Who are the women leaving and coming into the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives? Which women were elected as governor, and which will be leaving their gubernatorial positions?

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