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AAM Electronic Newsletter
Published by An Adventure of the American Mind at Mars Hill College
Vol. 8 Issue 22 - March 2, 2007
New Women's History Resource at the LOC
To celebrate women's history month the Library of Congress has created a new portal on its mega-site. At http://www.loc.gov/topics/womenshistory/ you'll find access to specialized sections of audio and video, photographs, essays and mega more! Listen to Margaret MacArthur's songs or Janice E. Ruth - ' Women Who Dare'. Check out the 'Women of Protest' section with photos, essay and a timeline at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/. The 'Women at War - Stories from the Veteran's History Project' section contains video interviews with accomplished leaders such as Jeanne Holm - Air Force Major General who commanded in WW2, Korea and Veitnam and Darlene Iskra, the first woman ever appointed Commander of a Navy ship. You'll find these and many more features to celebrate women's struggle for success and equality.
Femme Fatales a la Fibonacci
From across the sea, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland brings us a long list of links to biographies and photos of distinguished female mathematicians. Learn about numerous-award-winning Cathleen Synge Morawetz who became the first woman director of the Courant Institute of Mathematics. Did you know that Florence Nightingale used her deft knowledge of statistics on hospital data to prove that improved sanitary methods led to lower mortality rates? Find out about the famous Madame Emilie Marquis Chatelet (b. 1706), a dear friend of Voltaire's, who translated Isaac Newton's "Principia" into French. Amazing!
The list of women, whose birthplaces span the globe and time can be searched chronologically or alphabetically and is continually updated.
Click on the link below to look up some more fascinating ladies of math!
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Indexes/Women.html
Women at the Front
The Library of Congress has an online exhibition celebrating women journalists, photographers and broadcasters during WWII. "The women featured in this exhibit were chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library of Congress. Like their colleagues, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments." You'll find wartime photos of and by medal-decorated photographer Therese Bonney, Vogue-turned-hard-news photographer Toni Frissell, Dorothea Lange, and other documents to women who braved dangerous and tragic circumstances to bring images and words of truth to American civilians about the war.
Click on http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html to access the exhibition.
Clandestine Women: Spies in American History
From the National Women's History Museum this 'Cyber Museum' exhibit examines the role of women spies during the American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Cold War. Women have traditionally and in great numbers volunteered to help protect the nation. Besides enlisting in the military, women have effectively served in the shadowy world of espionage as couriers, guides, code breakers, intelligence analysts, even as covert agents--spies. Find out more at...
http://www.nwhm.org/spies/1.htm
While you are there, you can find women's history-related events and temporary exhibitions near you by clicking on the name of your state! The information about each event was taken off of each respective organization's website. If you have an event you want publicized, email it to the link on the page. http://www.nwhm.org/Calendar/events_calendar.html
Eagle Cam
The National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV, is hosting a webcam trained on their eagles' nest. If you want to watch the progress from eggs (3 laid in early-mid February) to fledged eaglets, tune in now and then. Sometimes the camera isn't working, but they try hard to keep it going.
Last year this eagle pair raised all three chicks to adulthood, and it was quite an experience to occasionally check in on them to see feedings (fish, snakes, turtles, birds were lunch) and the loving care these big sharp-footed birds take with their babies.
Here are links to resources for teachers and students, so explore! http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/eaglecam.htm
Thanks to my cousin Susan Hicks who works for the Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org). She sent this link to the cousins email list, but I couldn't resist passing it along to all of you!
Movers and Shakers
If you're seeking tectonic movement, underwater volcanoes, lightning strikes, monster waves and tornado chasers, Livescience.com has some goodies for you. For quick access to photos and facts about frightening natural phenomena including earthquakes click on http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050309_earthquake_march.html. The website also has a plethora of articles, videos, and photos under categories titled Animal Domain, Health SciTech, Environment, Technology, History, Strange News and more!
Click on the homepage link at http://www.livescience.com/ to access all the different categories.
For Special Teachers
Senteacher.org is a non-profit site dedicated to providing "free special needs teacher resources". It's filled with links to free printables like paper literacy dominoes with numbers, vowels and shapes, 3-D cutout patterns for making 3D shapes, behavior charts, connective phrases cards, shopping math and much more. The downloads section contains links to free software such as "Label a Skeleton", "Buried 3D Shapes", "10-Finger Breakout Typing Tutor", "Coins Machine" and many other titles. Click on http://www.senteacher.org/ to access these and other enriching materials.
Mega site for teachs... you probably know about it already ....
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
Clip Art Collections
The Grosse Pointe Public Schools (MI) offers this site with links to clip art collections, a content-specific clip art list, and links to seasonal clip art http://www.gpschools.org/ci/graphics/clipart.htm
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators on DiscoverySchool.com http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
NC Women's History Timeline
The North Carolina Museum of History has a fascinating timeline of North Carolina women's history from circa 8000 BC to 2000 AD. Highlights include 1862 - Mary Jane Patterson of Raleigh, who was a free African American woman and the first to get a bachelor of arts degree, 1878 - Tabitha Ann Holton, who became the first female licensed lawyer in the South, 1918 - Harriet Berry, who became the head of the NC Road Commission and became "known as the "Mother of Good Roads in North Carolina", and many others.
Click on http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/womenshist.html to begin traveling the timeline. Plus, there are other interesting parts of the museum's website that you can explore.
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