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Women’s History Month: March 2010

by The Pollak Library on February 25, 2010

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton called together the first Women’s Rights Convention. On March 8, 1857, women in New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. In 1909, International Women’s Day was first observed. In 1987, Congress passed a resolution establishing March as Women’s History Month. In Facts for Features: Women’s History Month: [...]

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D-Day: June 6, 1944

by The Pollak Library on June 8, 2009

Government Views of D-Day 1944 “On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited ‘Second Front’ against Adolf Hitler’s Germany. … Commanded by U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Normandy assault phase, code-named ‘Neptune’ (the entire operation was ‘Overlord’), was launched when weather reports predicted satisfactory conditions on 6 [...]

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Muddled History? Clio Notes to the Rescue

by Susan Tschabrun on December 16, 2008

EBSCO’s America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts article databases have added Clio Notes to their interfaces. Clio Notes allows researchers to navigate detailed historical chronologies and subject themes, and launch searches into one of the two EBSCO history databases. It is a great way to quickly get oriented to an historical topic or era, such as [...]

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