Every year, the month of March is dedicated to the celebration and study of the vital roles that women have played in American history. We at Infobase are celebrating, too, by highlighting some of the women’s history content in our database, streaming video, and eBook products that you can use in your classroom or suggest for independent study.
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Celebrate the Women Who Tell Our Stories
This year’s Women’s History Month theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” and Bloom’s Literature is an ideal place to start. Bloom’s Literature features a wealth of content on the finest contemporary and classic women storytellers, including reference essays, scholarly criticism, overviews of their works, essay topics, images, and videos. Many Author pages also feature links to the full text of the author’s major works, as well as How to Write About articles that include specific, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on these authors.
Some of the authors featured include:
- Maya Angelou
- Kate Chopin
- Emily Dickinson
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Harper Lee
- Toni Morrison
- Sylvia Plath
- Amy Tan
- And more.
Watch Videos about Empowered Women of the Past and Present
Each of Infobase’s streaming video collections—Films On Demand for colleges and universities, Access Video On Demand for public libraries, Classroom Video On Demand for secondary schools, and the award-winning Learn360 for K–12 schools and districts—contains a wide range of videos designed to educate, inform, and inspire viewers with stories of the women past and present who are making a difference in this world. Here are just some of the videos you’ll find on these platforms that can help.
IMPACT with Gal Gadot Series (2021, National Geographic, Item #283882)
National Geographic Presents: IMPACT with Gal Gadot is a documentary short series that follows the powerful stories of six women who are making an extraordinary impact on their communities around the world. Despite living in areas marred by violence, poverty, trauma, discrimination, oppression, and natural disasters, these brave women remain undeterred as they dare to dream, stand out, speak up, and lead. The women featured in each short film come from very different backgrounds—across Brazil, Puerto Rico, Michigan, California, Louisiana, and Tennessee—yet they are all connected by their unwavering determination and commitment to improving the lives of the people around them.
Others titles you’ll find (titles appear on all platforms unless otherwise noted):
- The Vote series (2020, PBS, Item #215269; available on Films On Demand, Access Video On Demand, and Classroom Video On Demand)
- The Janes (2022, HBO®, Item #283436; available on Films On Demand and Access Video On Demand)
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in Conversation with Bill Moyers (2020, Doctoroff Media Group, Item #283736; available on Films On Demand, Access Video On Demand, and Classroom Video On Demand)
- From Women’s Suffrage to the ERA, a Century-Long Push for Equality (2020, Retro Report, Item #281626; available on Films On Demand, Access Video On Demand, and Classroom Video On Demand)
- History Shorts: Women’s History Month and the Russian Revolution (2020, A+E, Item #281206; available on Films On Demand and Access Video On Demand)
- Sandra Day O’Connor: The First (2021, PBS, Item #274563; available on Films On Demand and Access Video On Demand)
- How Black Women Fought Racism and Sexism for the Right to Vote (2020, Retro Report, Item #281625; available on Films On Demand, Access Video On Demand, and Classroom Video On Demand)
- Daring Women Doctors (2020, PBS, Item #273551; available on Films On Demand, Access Video On Demand, and Learn360)
- Not Done: Women Remaking America (2020, PBS, Item #280733; available on Films On Demand)
- TEDTalks: Cecile Richards—The Political Progress Women Have Made, and What’s Next (2019, TED Talks, Item #209606; available on Films On Demand and Access Video On Demand)
- Untold: Women and the American Story series (2021, Makematic, Item #274367)
- The Woman Suffrage Procession (2021, Makematic, Item #277173; available on Learn360)
- International Women’s Day (2020, ClickView Pty Limited, Item #238638; available on Learn360)
- Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote (2016, American Public Television (APT), Item #154862)
- And more!
Celebrate Great Women with the Best in Reference
Representation matters, and a key way to inspire women to tackle previously male-dominated roles and careers is to introduce them to the trailblazers that preceded them, whether in politics, science and medicine, or any other area. Infobase’s databases feature a remarkable number of biographies and biographical articles that are guaranteed to give your female students someone to look up to. Check out the following:
Infobase’s History Resources
All five of Infobase’s history resources, including American History, African-American History, and American Indian History, has a Featured People slider on the home page that includes helpful lists of award-winning writers, First Ladies, Chief Justices of the U.S., civil rights activists, political leaders, Harlem Renaissance figures, major musicians, and more! Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
In addition, American History has an entire Topic Center covering American women’s history, bringing together articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—an ideal starting point for research.
Science Online
The award-winning Science Online includes a helpful list of women scientists that includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results. The scientists covered include:
- Virginia Apgar
- Cynthia Breazeal
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Rachel Carson
- Dian Fossey
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Lynn Margulis
- Barbara McClintock
- Margaret Mead
- Ellen Ochoa
- And more!
The World Almanac® for Kids
Middle school students can find many biographies of notable women in The World Almanac® for Kids. These biographies include hundreds of book-length biographies plus short bullet biographies that present up-to-date facts about notable people in a format that is easy for young researchers to follow and entertaining for them to read. The biographies are organized by profession, including:
- Artists, Architects & Designers: including Mary Cassatt, Coco Chanel, Maya Lin, and Dorothea Lange
- Athletes: including Florence Griffith-Joyner, Laila Ali, Danica Patrick, and Venus and Serena Williams
- Entertainers: including Marian Anderson, Jennifer Lawrence, Janelle Monáe, and Sandra Oh
- Explorers, Astronauts & Adventurers: including Nellie Bly, Amelia Earhart, Mae Jemison, and Sacagawea
- Leaders of America: including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Helen Keller, Michelle Obama, and Harriet Tubman
- Scientists, Inventors & Mathematicians: including Eugenie Clark, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Chien-Shiung Wu
- Writers, Poets & Journalists: including Maya Angelou, Judy Blume, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ursula K. Le Guin
- And more!
Students looking specifically for biographies of notable multicultural figures can also find them under “Multicultural” as well as under their professions.
Acclaimed Reference Content on Gender and Women’s Studies
For students at the university level, Credo Essentials Collections offer access to award-winning, notable, and peer-acclaimed reference content. The eBook titles found in the Gender and Women’s Studies Essentials Collection will help shape users’ understanding of the evolution of gender roles and expressions of identity over time and in recent years, with notable and award-winning content from Rutgers University Press, Hodder & Stoughton, New York University Press, and more.
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