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The fall 2013 One Book One Community selection is We Band of Angels by Elizabeth Norman. This page provides resources for more information about Women in the Military and World War II.

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Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
This database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content offering information pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
More than 120 document projects and archives with 5,100 documents and more than 170,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,700 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools relating to the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Dates of coverage: 1851-2007
Salem History This link opens in a new window
Online access to The Fifties in America, The Seventies in America, The Eighties in America, The Nineties in America, Historical Encyclopedia of American Business, Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1940, Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970, Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1971-2000, Milestone Documents in American History.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Magazine, journal and newspaper articles on a wide variety of topics.
Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and other media.

In Local News

One of the women featured in Norman's book is Helen "Cassie" Cassiani, a Bridgewater, Massachusetts native. This newspaper article appeared in the Brockton Enterprise February 6, 1945 following her release from the Japanese.

History

News stories about women in the military.

Comfort Women of World War II
Stories of women who were forced into sexual servitude during the war. A photo essay from the New York Times.
Revisiting the Military's Tailhook Scandal
In the current face of sexual abuse scandals in the military, the New York Times looks back at the Tailhook Scandal 21 years later.
Mildred Manning, "Angel" of Corrigedor, Dies at 98
In March of 2013 The New York Times published the obituary of the last surviving prisoner of Bataan and Corregidor.
U.S. Service Women through the Ages
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Our Mother's War: American women at home and at the Front during World War II by Emily Yellin
Publication Date: 2004
Available at Maxwell Library, and the SAILS library network

Related books from area libraries. Ask a librarian if you need assistance finding any of these books.

The Girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II by Denise Kiernan
Publication Date: c2013
Available through the SAILS library network.
The Secret Rescue: an untold story of American nurses and medics behind Nazi lines by Cate Lineberry
Publication Date: 2013
Available through the SAILS Library network.
Moving beyond G.I. Jane : women and the U.S. military by Sara L. Zeigler, Gregory G. Gunderson
Call Number: UB418.W65 Z45 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Available at Maxwell Library
Women and war in the twentieth century : enlisted with or without consent by edited by Nicole Ann Dombrowski
Call Number: D810.W7 W653
Publication Date: 1999
Available at Maxwell Library
Women against the good war : conscientious objection and gender on the American home front, 1941-1947 by Rachel Waltner Goossen
Call Number: D810.C82 G66
Publication Date: 1997
Available at Maxwell Library