Women's History Project wrap-up

Maria Tallchief - first Native American prima ballet dancer

Jane Goodall - scientist

J.K. Rowling - author

Anna Pavlova - ballet dancer

Martha Graham - dancer and choreographer

Helen Keller - author and speaker

Lucille Ball - comedienne and television producer

Cleopatra - queen of Egypt

Sacajawea - Shoshone trail guide to Lewis and Clark

Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of and political advisor to Theodore Roosevelt

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - women's suffrage activist

Sandra Day O'Connor - first female US Supreme Court Justice

Pocahontas - Native American mediator between natives and colonists

Sybil Ludington - Revolutionary War heroine

Michelle Obama - First Lady of the United States

Annie Oakley - sharpshooter and performer

Queen Victoria - queen of the United Kingdom

Beatrix Potter - author

Amelia Earhart - first female pilot to cross the Atlantic solo

Susan B. Anthony - women's suffrage activist

Elizabeth Blackwell - first female graduate of medical school in the US

We also read the following books:

- Girls Who Choose God. By Bethany Brady Spalding - women in the Bible.

- A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women. By Lynne Cheney - lots of women! Not just 26, one for each letter.

- Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies. By Cokie Roberts - the edited children's version of her main book by the same name.

- Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women. By Catherine Thimmesh - women see problems and solve them. And then get patents.

- The Boston Coffee Party. By Doreen Rappaport - a fiction story based on Abigail Adams' writings about women in Boston who fought against merchants during the Revolutionary War.

We had no method to choosing which women to study - we randomly chose biographies at the library based on what we could find. 

Moving forward, my intention is to include women's biographies as we progress through our main history study. I've come to believe that we actually do ourselves a disservice by separating "women's history" from all the rest of history - we should incorporate women's biographies and issue studies within the context of the greater whole of culture and politics. We need to include women in that greater study, not continue to keep them separate in their own course of study.