Collection Highlight: March 22

 

Collection Highlights: March 2022

Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian

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March 2022

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting five stories

of American women throughout history, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. 

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering

Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura

DB 104506

Biography of Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, the first licensed female physician in the United States,

and her sister, Doctor Emily Blackwell. Discusses their early years, their founding of the

New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, and the challenges they faced in

their chosen profession.

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who

Helped Win World War II, by Liza Mundy

DB 89397 ; Young Readers Edition DB 92750

An account of the work of the thousands of women who served as codebreakers

in the US during World War II. Discusses the ramifications of their work for the war and in

the larger field of cryptanalysis.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong

BR 23405 ; DB 98817

A collection of essays in which the author reflects on her experiences living as an

Asian American in the early twenty-first century. Traces the author's relationship

with language, shame, depression, poetry, family, and female friendship.

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott

DB 80094

Profiles of four women and their service during the Civil War. Discusses Emma

Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man and fought for the Union Army; Belle Boyd,

who was a Confederate spy; Rose O'Neal Greenhow, another Confederate spy; and

Elizabeth Van Lew, who spied for the Union.

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X,

and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, by Anna Malaika Tubbs

DB 104172

The author celebrates Black motherhood by exploring the stories of three

women who raised American icons. She discusses the lives and impacts of

Berdis Baldwin and her son James, Alberta King and her son Martin Luther,

and Louise Little and her son Malcolm.