March is National Women’s History Month! The Edlandria Blog invites you to read a book in your Alexandria, VA apartment this month about some of the amazing women in our nation’s history! We’ve got some suggestions to help you narrow down your choice.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians know as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart
An autobiography from the famous female pilot describing her ambitions and dreams of becoming a pilot. She also offers her advice to others.
The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays by Helen Keller
These poetic, inspiring essays offer insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Helen Keller relates her impressions of life's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination.
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks unknowingly contributed to medical and scientific marvels like the polio vaccine, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. The Southern tobacco farmer has been immortalized by “HeLa,” or, the cells of her cervical cancer, and her story sheds a light on the dark history of medical experimentation on black Americans.
Who is your favorite woman in U.S. history? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading our post.