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...installing a new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system and reconfiguring library space and traffic flow, library officials said they have ensured the safety and security of Schlesinger’s holdings. The collections include letters from Amelia Earhart and Harriet Beecher Stowe, a cookbook written by a former slave, and the papers of poet June Jordan, according to a recent press release...
...January 1961, a handful of women began arriving by twos and threes at the tatty Bird of Paradise Motel in Albuquerque, N.M., for an unusual series of medical tests. The women were all pilots, drawn from groups like the Ninety-Nines (the female pilots' organization founded by Amelia Earhart) and the W.A.S.P.s (Women's Air Force Service Pilots) as well as the women's air-racing circuit, the Powder Puff Derby. The tests were to assess their fitness as potential astronauts. The remarkable story of how these women got to the Bird of Paradise Motel and what happened to them...
...door reveal books ranging from feminism to motherhood to widowhood. Here, like in most libraries, the Dewey Decimal system reigns supreme. Jewish women and Muslim women share a shelf in the section marked 296 to 297. Aviatrixes reside in 629.1, with an entire section devoted to books about Amelia Earhart. Just across the aisle, lesbians occupy the 306.76 section...
Though male portraits may rule on the majority of Harvard’s walls, women dominate on the walls of the Schlesinger’s spiral staircase. Amelia Earhart, Betty Friedan and Lydia Pinkham are among the women featured...
...first word? Papa. Her first steps? August 27. Her name? Amelia Earhart...