Related Resources at the Library
The following audio or video presentations are a sampling of the available material related to women's history available from the Library of the Congress. These include Webcasts (taped recordings of presentations, lectures, performances and speeches that have taken place at the Library) as well as musical recordings and unique sound artifacts from our collections, such as women's first-person stories.
Please note: This list represents only selected digital assets available through the Library's Web site. The Library's physical holdings in Washington, D.C., include more than 134 million items, including books, photos, sound recordings, films, maps and manuscripts, many of which are not available online.
Books
- Andrea Mitchell: 2005 National Book Festival
- Anna Quindlen: 2004 National Book Festival
- Azar Nafisi: 2004 National Book Festival
- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Cokie Roberts: 2004 National Book Festival
- Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years (Patricia Sullivan)
- Kay Bailey Hutchison: 2006 National Book Festival
- Maria Celeste ArrarĂ¡s: 2007 National Book Festival
- Mary Pope Osborne: 2005 National Book Festival
- Sue Monk Kidd: 2005 National Book Festival
Events / Webcasts
- American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country (Kay Bailey Hutchison)
- A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
- Bringing in the May (Jennifer Cutting)
- History of Household Technology (Constance Carter)
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
- My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives
- Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 (Teresita Martinez-Vergne)
- Resourceful Women: Researching and Interpreting Women's History (Symposium)
- A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances (Laura Schenone)
- Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation (Symposium)
- Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life (Barbara Haber)
- Women Who Dare
Music / Performing Arts
Poetry
- Amy Uyematsu: 2006 National Book Festival
- Elise Paschen: 2006 National Book Festival
- Judith Ortiz Cofer: 2006 National Book Festival
- Judith Viorst: 2006 National Book Festival
- Linda Pastan: 2004 National Book Festival
- Mary Karr: 2006 National Book Festival
- Natasha Trethewey: 2004 National Book Festival
- Rhina Espaillat: 2003 National Book Festival
- Shelia Moses: 2006 National Book Festival
- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim: 2004 National Book Festival
- Suji Kwock Kim: 2004 National Book Festival
- Tami Haaland: 2003 National Book Festival