Bookstore Celebrates Women

By Rachel Nowery
The Campus Bookstore announces March as Women’s History Month and has some selected books on display at 20 percent off the retail price.

Women’s Letters: America from Revolutionary War to the Present by Lisa Grunwalk consists of more than 400 letters and over 100 photographs by women spanning over three centuries. The letters gathered depict historical events and provide an insight to women’s personal thoughts and experiences. Women such as Abigail Adams (John Adams’ wife), Harriet Beecher Stowe, and even recent women such as Monica Lewinsky and Martha Stewart are featured. The first-person reports collected by family members, historical societies and libraries are printed in their original format and presented in chronological order.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s oldest daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, recently authored Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, which is also on sale. The collective biography spotlights nine 20th Century women who worked behind the scenes and in the heat of major political movements. These little-known heroes had major roles in changing controversial political policies of the last century.

Also on display is Women’s America: Refocusing the Past by Linda Kerber and Jane Dehart. The book is currently being used in Professor Robert Cordell’s History of American Women class.