FDU Florham Library is holding “An Abbreviated Timeline of Women’s Leadership ‘Firsts’” exhibit of books and periodicals in honor of Women’s History Month. “Firsts” highlights diverse U.S. women (most from the 20th & 21st centuries) who broke through barriers of what in their time were “accepted norms” (i.e., “men only”) to reach new triumphs for women: e.g., Alice Paul (Morristown, NJ, 1910s) among others, for the right to vote; Margaret Sanger (1916) to control their own bodies; Amelia Earhart, flying (1937); Aretha Franklin (1954) reaching the “Hall of Fame”; astronaut “Wally” Funk (from 1961) flying into space finally at age 82 (in 2021); and attaining political stature as did Janet Reno, first woman U.S. Attorney General (1993); and Kamala Harris, first woman U.S. Vice President (2020).
100 years of women's suffrage : a University of Illinois Press anthology by 
Making noise, making news : suffrage print culture and U.S. modernism by 
Iron butterflies : women transforming themselves and the world by 
After the vote was won : the later achievements of fifteen suffragists by 
Paving the way : the first American women law professors by 
Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history by 
Justice, justice thou shalt pursue : a life's work fighting for a more perfect union by 
Carrie Chapman Catt, a biography by 
