Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women's History Month Editing Workshop: Arlington Women in History
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Arlington Women in History Editing Workshop
Only 17% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Help us change that! Join Wikimedia DC and the Arlington Central Library for a Women's History Month editing workshop. Edit Wikipedia and help to improve or create articles about historical women of Arlington. New editors are welcome. Training will be provided.
This event is free and open to the public. Please bring a laptop and photo ID. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.
When
- Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:00AM-4:00PM
Where
- Arlington Central Library
- 1015 North Quincy Street
- Arlington, VA 22201
Register
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Presentation
editPolicies, Quick Tips and Other Wikimedia Resources
edit- Wikipedia:Five pillars
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Your first article
Tips
- Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
- Creating Redirector with Source Editor
- Using categories
- Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
- Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
Wikimedia and other related projects
Suggested Work List
editSelect 'Show' to view potential sources (clickable links) for each article.
Wikipedia articles by quality (About quality assessments)
For Creation
* Walker, Connecticut (September 1, 1974). "Judith Livers: America's First Firewoman". Reading Eagle.
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* Hall, Charles W. (December 12, 1991). "ARLINGTON WOMAN WHO LOST SON URGES BLACKS TO FIGHT AIDS". The Washington Post.
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* BARAKAT, MATTHEW (September 17, 2016). "Historic recognition: Washington's family tree is biracial". Associated Press.
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* "Esther Cooper Obituary" (PDF). Virginia Sun. 1970.
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* Sugarman, Carole (October 5, 1988). "THE 'PEANUT BUTTER GRANDMOTHER'". The Washington Post.
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* McCAFFREY, SCOTT (May 31, 2017). "Educator could be namesake of new Arlington elementary school". Inside Nova.
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* Byrne, Karen (1998). "The Remarkable Legacy of Selina Norris Gray" (PDF). National Park Service: Cultural Resource Management Journal. 21 (4): 20–22.
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* Lamb, Yvonne Shinhoster (June 13, 2004). "Obituary: Dorothy M. Hamm". The Washington Post.
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* Estrada, Louie (February 4, 2000). "Plumber Lillian Baumbach Jacobs Dies". The Washington Post.
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* BARAKAT, MATTHEW (September 17, 2016). "Historic recognition: Washington's family tree is biracial". Associated Press.
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* Available: Center for Local History Frances, Scott; Webb, Anne C. (2007). Who is Markie?: The Life of Martha Custis Williams Carter Cousin and Confidante of Robert E. Lee. Westminster Md: Heritage Books.
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* Available today via interlibrary loan Putney, Martha S. (1992). When the Nation was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II. Lanham, Marylan: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810840171.
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* Available at Arlington Central Library: Central Adult Nonfiction - 920.0755 DICTI v.1, 920.0755 DICTI v.2 & 920.0755 DICTI v.3 John T., Kneebone (1998). Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1-3. Richmond, Virginia: Library of Virginia.
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* Shapiro, T. Rees (April 27, 2013). "Washington's Civil War madam could keep a secret". The Washington Post.
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* "Obituary: Emily Howland". The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association. 10 (4): 346–348. October 1929. JSTOR 43565516.
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* "Local Girl Makes Good". Arlington Public Library.
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* Pilon, Mary (April 10, 2015). "Lizzie Magie invented Monopoly, so why haven't we heard of her?". The Guardian.
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* Wiseman, Lauren (January 9, 2009). "Obituary: Ellen M. Bozman; Arlington Activist". Washington Post.
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* Jones, Mark (January 9, 2004). "10 Years Later: Remembering Elizabeth Campbell". WETA. Boundary Stones.
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* Antoinette G. van Zelm and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. "Jennie Serepta Dean (1848–1913)". Encyclopedia Virginia.
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* Haviland, Sara Rzeszutek (2015). James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813166278.
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* McCaslin, Richard B. (2001). Lee In the Shadow of Washington. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807155547. Also available in the Center for Local History
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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (Great grand-daughter of Martha Custis Washington and Wife of Robert E. Lee)
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* Lee, Dorothy (1930). Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee : wife of General Robert E. Lee. University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository.
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* Available: Center for Local History Ribblett, David L. (1993). Nelly Custis : Child of Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. ISBN 9780931917233.
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* Available at Central Library: Kids Biography - JB MULHOLL J Mulholland, Loki (2016). She stood for freedom : the untold story of a civil rights hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain. ISBN 9781629721774.
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* Smith, Harrison (January 8, 2018). "Anna Mae Hays, nurse who became U.S. military's first female general, dies at 97". The Washington Post.
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* Battaglia, Andy (November 7, 2017). "New Foundation Aims to Further Legacy of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt". Art News.
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* "Dictionary of Virginia Biography - Virginia Randolph Cary (30 January 1786-2 May 1852) Biography". www.lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
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Code Girls
For Creation
* Available today Mundy, Liz (2017). Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN 9780316353731.
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* Schkloven, Emma (December 16, 2017). "Lynchburg native talks about working as a 'code girl' during World War II". The News and Advance.
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* "NSA CSS". NSA CSS.
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* "NSA CASS Hall of Honor: Agnes Meyer Driscoll".
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* "NSA CASS Hall of Honor: Elizebeth S. Friedman". NSA CASS.
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Other Resources
editAvailable at the Center for Local History
- Lewis, Stephen Johnson (1994). Undaunted faith-- the life story of Jennie Dean: missionary, teacher, crusader, builder ; founder of the Manassas Industrial School. Manassas, Virignia: The Manassas Museum. ISBN 9781886826045.
- Mundy, Liz (2017). Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN 9780316353731.
- Notable women of Arlington. Third series. Arlington, VA: Arlington County Commission on the Status of Women. 1993.
- Hamm, Dorothy; Cocklin, Ruth C.; Campbell, Edmund D. (1986). Dorothy M. Hamm interview. Arlington County Public Library.
- McCaslin, Richard B. (2001). Lee In the Shadow of Washington. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807126967.
- Ribblett, David L. (1993). Nelly Custis : Child of Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. ISBN 9780931917233.
- Sparks, Jared (1840). The Life of George Washington. Auburn, New York: Derby & Miller.
- Thane, Elswyth (1968). Mount Vernon family. New York: Crowell-Collier Press.
- Orbanes, Philip (2006). Monopoly: America's game. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo ; Perseus Running.
- Daniels, Jonathan (1972). The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
- Eckenrode, H. J. (1946). The Randolphs; the story of a Virginia family. Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Available at Arlington Central Library
- Adult Nonfiction 323.1196 FREED Dittmer, John; McGuire, Danielle L. (2011). Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement. Louisville, Kentucky: The University of Kentucky Press. ISBN 9780813134482.
- Adult Nonfiction - 920.0755 DICTI v.1, 920.0755 DICTI v.2 & 920.0755 DICTI v.3 John T., Kneebone (1998). Dictionary of Virginia biography. Richmond, Virginia: Library of Virginia.
- Adult Nonfiction - 975.5295 MCELY McElya, Micki (2016). The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. See Chapter 1: Keeper of the Keys. ISBN 9780674737242.
- Adult Nonfiction - 795.1 ORBAN Orbanes, Philip (2006). Monopoly: America's game. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo; Perseus Running.
- Kids Biography - JB MULHOLL J Mulholland, Loki (2016). She stood for freedom : the untold story of a civil rights hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain. ISBN 9781629721774.
Available today via interlibrary loan
- Mundy, Liz (2017). Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN 9780316353731.
- Abel, Elizabeth (2010). Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520261839.
- Rzeszutek Haviland, Sara (2015). James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Louisville, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813166278.
- Putney, Martha S. (1992). When the Nation was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II. Lanham, Marylan: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810840171.
- Edited by the Center for Cryptologic History (2006). The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizibeth Friedman. Center for Cryptologic History, NSA.
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has generic name (help) - Frank, Lisa Tendrich (2013). An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields (Volume 1 ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-443-6.
Digital
edit- A Guide to the African American Heritage of Arlington County, Virginia (PDF). Arlington County Historic Preservation Program. 2016.
- Clark, Charlie (2017). Hidden History of Arlington County. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 9781625859235.
- "Overlooked". New York Times. March 8, 2018.
Attendees
edit- econterms (talk) 20:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC) (I was there!)
Articles edited
edit- Mary Randolph
- Shelley Mann
- Emily Howland
- The Migration Series
- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
- Freedom Riders
- Sybil Ludington
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- Anne Hill Carter Lee
- Jennie Dean
- Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth
- Lizzie Magie
- George Washington Parke Custis
- Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
- William Henry Fitzhugh
- Anne Hill Carter Lee
- Emily Howland
- Ellen M. Bozman
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
- Kate Waller Barrett
- Lila Meade Valentine
- Equal Suffrage League
Drafts created but not yet published