From: Martha Norkunas Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:25:38 EST Subject: Kids and Historical Artifacts In regard to the terrific project involving girl scouts doing research based on historic uniforms, several colleagues suggested doing oral histories with older women who wore the uniforms, and/or collecting information about women of achievement in the community. I'd like to add one further suggestion: that the girls undertake a local "sourcebook on women in our community" or "encyclopedia of local women." They would essentially still do oral histories, and collect information about women in their community, but the end product would be a book consisting of short biographies of each of the women. Not only would the girls get tremendous satisfaction from a product like this, but it would serve as a useful research book for others. Schools, when they do their local history units and say that they don't include women as they don't have any material about them, might find such a publication particularly useful. Martha Norkunas Center for American History SRH 2.101 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Phone: 512-495-4515 FAX: 512-495-4542 internet address: m.norkunas@mail.utexas.edu