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Women’s History Month
Reviewed March 14, 2002 by PMcKee, a reader from Boston, who is affiliated with the site. Women’s History Month. This site features statistics, biographies, and interesting & fun stuff.
Women and the Vote
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
"The efforts of the suffragists went beyond petitions and parades. "Testing another strategy, Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election in Rochester, NY. As planned, she was arrested for ‘knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States.’" You can read her handwritten petition to Congress declaring her $100 fine "unjust," along with eight other primary source documents (and teaching activities) from the National Record Archives."
Winning the Right to Vote
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
White House: Biography of John F. Kennedy
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
White House on Thomas Jefferson
""This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing." As part of its Presidents of the United States series, the White House presents a brief biography of Jefferson. It includes a biography of his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, and links to his two inaugural speeches. "
WhiteHouse on George Washington
"As part of its series on American Presidents, the White House web sitepresents George and Martha Washington. As this is the only one of this week’ssites that features Martha, I was curious to learn more about her. The oldestdaughter of John and Frances Dandridge, she was born June 2, 1731 on aplantation near Williamsburg. As was typical for a girl, Martha’s educationconsisted mostly of domestic and social skills. Although she and her husbandclosely guarded their privacy, in one of her surviving letters she confided to aniece that she did not enjoy her role as First Lady. After her husband’s deathin 1799, Martha assured a final privacy by burning their letters. In additionto the two biographies, you’ll find links to Washington’s two inauguraladdresses."
Watergate: The 25th Anniversary
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
Watergate.info
"Watergate.info is my pick of the day because it puts the entire affair in perspective, starting with the political context of the late sixties when Nixon was elected. Although "Watergate" refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. where the office of the Democratic National Committee was burgled, the term has become generalized to describe the "complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974." Great clicks are Chronology, Transcripts & Audio, and Aftermath."
WashingtonPost.com: Watergate 25
"From 1997, this special online report commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Outstanding sections are Key Players (a who’s who of the Watergate scandal) and The Reforms (lawmakers in the 1970s passed a series of bills to improve the political process and restore public confidence in elected officials.) Only the Deep Throat section seems dated, with so much recent speculation about the true identity of Bob Woodward’s deep background source."
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