Library hours during Spring Break:

Monday, March 26th – Friday, March 30th:     7:30 – 4:30

Saturday, March 31st: closed

March is National Women’s History Month      

Refrigerators, chocolate chip cookies and windsheild wipers: what would we do without them?  These common items, familiar to everyone, were all invented by women.  Kevlar (used to make bulletproof vests), fire escapes and life rafts: life-saving inventions all created by women.  Women founded the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts of America.  Women have made scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs and let’s not forget that they held this country together during World War II.      

It’s time to learn something about the women who helped form our country, its history and the world we live in today.

Learn more about women’s history by visiting Harper College Library’s research guide on Women’s History.

photo: Ruth Wakefield, discoverer of chocolate chip cookies.  Thanks Ruth!

The International Committee and Sociology Department are sponsoring an event to celebrate International Women’s Day.  Join them for a viewing and discussion of The Iron Ladies of Liberia.  This film is a documentary about Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the first democratically elected female President in Africa.   

Thursday, March 8th

 6:30pm – 8:30pm

 Room E106

We hope to see you there!

  AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

African-American history is an important part of the United States.  Let’s celebrate this month by… checking out books from the Harper College Library!

 A History of African American Theatre

Call Number:                         PN2270.A35 H55 2005

 To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans

Call Number:                         E185 .T68 2000

 Black History in the Pages of Children’s Literature

Call Number:                         PS173.N4 C37 2007

 The Truth that Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom

Call Number:                         E185.86 .S635 1998

 The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans

Call Number:                         E185 .A8 1991

 The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women From Colonial America to the Present

Call Number:                         OVERSIZE E185.86 .F33 1999

Want to learn more?

Visit: http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/

 

-Amy V.

Jim Edstrom, Professor of Library Services and History, will be teaching History 219 – Illinois and Local History – during the Spring 2012 semester.

This course focuses on the story of the Prairie State from prehistory to the present day, exploring:

• The impact of the state’s geography upon its history.
• The contributions of different groups—European, African-American, Native American, male and female—in the economic, social, political, and literary development of Illinois.
• The ways in which the history of this state illustrates, amplifies, and explains the larger history of the United States.

 History 219 will meet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30pm to 4:45pm in Room J160. 

For further information click here or call Jim Edstrom at 847-925-6763.

* History 219 is intended to help current and prospective students meet Illinois State Goal 16 for social studies.