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{"id":3414,"date":"2012-03-20T09:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valdosta.edu\/library\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:16:35","slug":"march-is-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/2012\/03\/20\/march-is-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"March Is Women&#039;s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of Women&#8217;s History Month, the governments of the United States and Georgia, along with libraries, archives, and other nonprofit organizations, can help us learn about women&#8217;s contributions to science, culture and the arts, exploration, education, and government. View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/index.html\">Library of Congress<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/\">feature on Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a>, emphasizing the 2012 theme, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwhp.org\/whm\/index.php\">Women&#8217;s Education&#8211;Women&#8217;s Empowerment<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/featured_documents\/amendment_19\/\">history of the 19th Amendment<\/a>, enacting the right of women to vote in the U.S., courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/index.html\">National Archives and Records Administration<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/\">Law Library of Congress<\/a> also offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/help\/commemorative-observations\/women_history.php\">timeline of the legislative history of Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdosta.edu\/\">Valdosta State University<\/a>, which began as a college for women, offers local documentation of more than a century of the history of women in south Georgia, as evident in this photograph of the 1933 Euclidian (Math and Science) Club of what was then the Georgia State Woman&#8217;s College:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3417\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"> <\/a> <\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_3418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 267px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"> <\/a> <\/p>\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/03\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3418\" title=\"1932 Math and Science Club\" src=\"http:\/\/www.valdosta.edu\/library\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1932-Math-and-Science-Club2-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1932 Math &amp; Science Club, Georgia State Woman&#039;s College, courtesy VSU Archives<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many more images and documents of the history of women at Valdosta State University are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdosta.edu\/library\/find\/arch\/index.shtml\">Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Odum Library&#8217;s collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gilfind.valdosta.edu\/vufind\/Record\/241408\">U.S. Statutes at Large<\/a> documents <a href=\"http:\/\/gilfind.valdosta.edu\/vufind\/Search\/Results?lookfor=%22%20Women%27s%20History%20Month.%22&amp;type=Subject\">the U.S. government&#8217;s recognition of Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a>. 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