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Books for Youth Art Month

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Youth-Art-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/31/2003 Books for Youth Art Month Transcript It’s Youth Art Month, and given that it’s also Women’s History Month, we thought we might combine these two celebrations in books about women artists. Robyn Montana Turner’s series, “Portraits of Women Artists for Children” is an […]

Books for Women’s History Month

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Womens-History-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/3/2003 Books for Women’s History Month Transcript One of the best places to start a young person’s journey to find out about women and their many roles in history would be the series of books by Fiona Macdonald called “The […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]

Women’s History Sites

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Womens-History-Sites.mp3 Author Heather Tomasello Air Date 3/14/2005 Women’s History Sites Transcript March is Women’s History Month, an especially appropriate time for you and your children to visit several websites that explore the dynamic roles that women have played in the past and continue to play in contemporary American society. The […]