Beyond the Stacks 2022 - March 15

Collection Highlights: March 2022 Contributed by Jordan Farinelli, Collection Development Librarian March 2022 For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting five stories of American women throughout history, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura DB 104506 Biography of Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, the first licensed female physician in the United States, and her sister, Doctor Emily Blackwell. Discusses their early years, their founding of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, and the challenges they faced in their chosen profession. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II, by Liza Mundy DB 89397 ; Young Readers Edition DB 92750 An account of the work of the thousands of women who served as codebreakers in the US during World War II. Discusses the ramifications of their work for the war and in the larger field of cryptanalysis. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong BR 23405 ; DB 98817 A collection of essays in which the author reflects on her experiences living as an Asian American in the early twenty-first century. Traces the author's relationship with language, shame, depression, poetry, family, and female friendship. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, by Karen Abbott DB 80094 Profiles of four women and their service during the Civil War. Discusses Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man and fought for the Union Army; Belle Boyd, who was a Confederate spy; Rose O'Neal Greenhow, another Confederate spy; and Elizabeth Van Lew, who spied for the Union. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, by Anna Malaika Tubbs DB 104172 The author celebrates Black motherhood by exploring the stories of three women who raised American icons. She discusses the lives and impacts of Berdis Baldwin and her son James, Alberta King and her son Martin Luther, and Louise Little and her son Malcolm.