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For some time we have been adding days, weeks, or months of celebration and remembrance to our national calendar, some of them amusing or frivolous, others earnest and important, others profoundly serious. Truly, as you’ll see from these stories, we do need those cultural moments to celebrate and to contemplate.

Women of Worth

If Women’s History Month were to have been celebrated in the 1800s, it would probably have focused most of its attention on women’s accomplishments in the home, as Rita Smith explains.

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Poems for Women’s History Month

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poems-for-Womens-History.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/21/2002 Poems for Women’s History Month Transcript She was the one who seemed to run in the sky, legs from nothing, from nowhere, her feet surrounded by air. That’s part of a poem by Grace Butcher written in honor of […]

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Michelangelo

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Michaelangelo-Youth-Art-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/6/2002 Michelangelo Transcript March is Youth Art Month, and today is the birthday of one of the most famous artists in the west, Michelangelo Buonarroti. who was born in the small Tuscan town of Caprese in 1475, the son of the town’s mayor. His […]

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Women’s History Month on the Internet

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Womens-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/5/2002 Women’s History Month on the Internet Transcript Happily, there are dozens of web sites that honor the many roles that women have played in the course of human history — as warrior queens and scientists, artists and business leaders, […]

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