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• Spring 2018 Lecture Schedule - Great Lives

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hello Girls

  America's First Women Soldiers

  Cobbs, Elizabeth

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  Ordinary girls swore an Army oath to become telephone operators, linking generals relaying orders to soldiers in the trenches. After the war, they were sent home with nothing more than a pat on the head.

• American Women in World War I

  They Also Served

  Gavin, Lettie, 1922-

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  More than 40,000 women served in WWI in support, relief, and military duties. This book is full of personal stories, photos, and background information.

• Elsie and Mairi Go to War

  Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

  Atkinson, Diane

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  A divorced lady motorcyclist and a teenage girl mechanic drove ambulances in Belgium and set up a first-aid post under enemy fire. After four years, they faced an even greater challenge--they went home.

• Loving Arms

  British Women Writing the Second World War

  Schneider, Karen

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  War-related writings from five British women, exploring "the connections [between] gender, war, and storytelling."

• On Her Their Lives Depend

  Munitions Workers in the Great War

  Woollacott, Angela, 1955-

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  Even if they weren't on the front lines, WWI munitions workers were vital to the war effort. The enemies they faced were often their bosses, trade unionists, and other women in the workplace.

• The Radium Girls

  the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

  Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)

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  A coveted war job for women was to be a "shining girl" - painting clock faces with a new, glowing substance called radium. Then they started getting sick. (Also available as an eBook, eAudio, and audio CD).

• Women Heroes of World War I

  16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics

  Atwood, Kathryn J.

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  The stories of 16 "brave yet largely forgotten women" who served their countries during WWI as "resisters, soldiers, spies, and medics." (Also available as an eBook).