New @ the Library: Women's History Month
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This page features topical lists of items from our collection: print books, ebooks, and DVDs. Ebooks are accessible to all Central Penn students, faculty, and staff--any time, anywhere you have an internet connection. If you have questions/problems accessing the ebooks, please contact the Library.
Women's History
After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists by Call Number: 324.623 ADAISBN: 9780786449385Publication Date: 2010
All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Call Number: 973.7 LEOISBN: 9780393047127Publication Date: 1999
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Call Number: 305.4 COLISBN: 9780060959814Publication Date: 2004
Bands of Sisters: U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780810881624Publication Date: 2011
Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight by Call Number: 355.0082 MACISBN: 9781107628106Publication Date: 2015
A Black Women's History of the United States by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807033555Publication Date: 2020
Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780812244892Publication Date: 2013
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Call Number: 940.5486 MUNISBN: 9780316352543Publication Date: 2018
The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America by Call Number: OVR 305.409 CUISBN: 9780306808685Publication Date: 1998
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Call Number: 305.4209 COBISBN: 9780871406767Publication Date: 2014
A Few Good Women: America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by Call Number: 355.0082 MONISBN: 9781400095605Publication Date: 2011
Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780887557323Publication Date: 2012
The First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, An Intimate Portrait of the Women Who Shaped America by Call Number: 973.099 SCHISBN: 9781402242724Publication Date: 2011
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Call Number: 973.099 SWAISBN: 9781610395663Publication Date: 2015
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Call Number: 973.3 RobISBN: 9780060090258Publication Date: 2004
Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment by Call Number: 324.62 CLIFTISBN: 9780471426127Publication Date: 2003
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women by Call Number: 305.4209 Fre v.1-2ISBN: 9781558615656Publication Date: 2008
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science--And the World by Call Number: 509.252 SWAISBN: 9780553446791Publication Date: 2015
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America by Call Number: 973.082 WAIISBN: 9780061246517Publication Date: 2008
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Call Number: 510.9252 LEEISBN: 9780062363596Publication Date: 2016
Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780810868588Publication Date: 2012
History of Women in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1923-2001 by Call Number: 974.8 SCHISBN: 9780966779424Publication Date: 2001
Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s by Call Number: 920.72 BloISBN: 9780814799093Publication Date: 2005
Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History: Volume 2: Since 1877 (3rd Ed.) by Call Number: 305.4097 RILISBN: 9780882959580Publication Date: 2001
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Call Number: 973.099 ROBISBN: 9780060782351Publication Date: 2009
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781558616134Publication Date: 2010Also available in print: 500.822 DesJ
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Call Number: 629.45 AckISBN: 9780375758935Publication Date: 2004
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction by Call Number: 809.91 KROISBN: 9781683691389Publication Date: 2019
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9781403934482Publication Date: 2005
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Call Number: 810.9 PIEISBN: 9780679751137Publication Date: 2001
The Penguin Biographical Dictionary Of WomenCall Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780140514063Publication Date: 1998
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Call Number: 363.1799 MOOISBN: 9781492650959Publication Date: 2018
The Reader's Companion to U. S. Women's History by Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9780395671733Publication Date: 1998
The Road to Equality: American Women Since 1962 by Call Number: 305.4209 CHAFEISBN: 9780195124088Publication Date: 1994
Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays from Feminist Studies by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780415626910Publication Date: 2012
Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality by Call Number: 342.7308 CUSISBN: 9781608714063Publication Date: 2010
The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel by Call Number: Credo ReferenceISBN: 9783319261256Publication Date: 2016
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780393955729Publication Date: [1792]Also available in print: 305.4 Woll
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the Women Trapped on Bataan by Call Number: 940.5475 NORISBN: 9780812984842Publication Date: 2013
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Call Number: 305.4209 UlrISBN: 9781400041596Publication Date: 2007
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Call Number: 305.409 ColISBN: 9780316059541Publication Date: 2009
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Call Number: 324.623 WEIISBN: 9780525429722Publication Date: 2018
Women's Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780415535755Publication Date: 2013
Women's Rights in the United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781610692144Publication Date: 2014
Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over by Call Number: 305.42 HepbISBN: 9780739113561Publication Date: 2006
Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780415623629Publication Date: 2012
Women at the Podium: Memorable Speeches in History by Call Number: 808.5 WOMISBN: 9780380802869Publication Date: 2000
Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook by Call Number: 302.2 WOMISBN: 9780313291647Publication Date: 1996
Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their Work by Call Number: 610.6908 GrantISBN: 9781552979068Publication Date: 2004
Women in the United States, 1830-1945 by Call Number: 305.4 KLEISBN: 9780813527291Publication Date: 1999
Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781617031731Publication Date: 2011
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology by Call Number: 920.72 COISBN: 9780679736332Publication Date: 1992
Women's Biographies
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Call Number: 973.3092 MILISBN: 9780805082975Publication Date: 2010
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe by Call Number: 818.409 SHOISBN: 9781451645910Publication Date: 2017
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Call Number: 941.0809 PURISBN: 9780143128915Publication Date: 2016
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Call Number: 956.0209 WALISBN: 9781400096190Publication Date: 2005
The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story by Call Number: 974.9004 THOISBN: 9780758225887Publication Date: 2008
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Call Number: 951.035 CHAISBN: 9780307456700Publication Date: 2014
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780253222480Publication Date: 2011Also available in print: 966.9403 ACH
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Call Number: 973.7 CLIISBN: 9780316144926Publication Date: 2004
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Call Number: 616.0277 SKLISBN: 9781400052172Publication Date: 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (DVD) by Call Number: DVD 791.4372 IMMOISBN: 0883929600977Publication Date: 2017
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister by Call Number: 941.085 CAMISBN: 9780143120872Publication Date: 2011
Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady Of Physics Research by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9789814374842Publication Date: 2013
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by Call Number: 338.7668 BUNISBN: 9780743431729Publication Date: 2002
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Call Number: 323.092 THEOISBN: 9780807050477Publication Date: 2013
Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith Devoe by Call Number: 324.623 ROSISBN: 9780295990866Publication Date: 2011
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Call Number: 331.092 DOWISBN: 9780385513654Publication Date: 2009
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