Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hi, it's Susan, Happy National Women's History Month.

A lot of people here in the United States know that that's what March is.

And in March on March 8th, it's International Women's Day around the world.

But did you know that since 1984, here in the United States, it's also National Social Work Month.

So, Beckett and I figured we would honor that by taking our coverage of Jane Adams,

which was two episodes, and combining it into this one, Meg Episode.

Like all of our episodes, it's broken into chapters.

So, if you want to think of it as a two and a half hour, six chapter audiobook, that would be good.

This year's theme for National Social Work Month is, the time is right for social work.

Jane Adams thought her time was right for social work, even if it wasn't called that yet.

To Jane and her colleagues first at Hall House, then around the country, and then around the world,

they were simply helping people in tangible and productive ways.

On the show notes for this episode at thehistorchicks.com, we will link you to socialworkers.org.

That's the website of the National Association of Social Workers.

They have more information and a toolkit for learning and doing more.

Since I have your ears for just a second, we still have a few openings for our field trip to New England to Boston and Newport this October 16th through 23rd.

And during that time, we're going to be having a local's meetup dinner cruise that would be on October 21st.

So, if you're in the New England area, please come out and join us and our fellow travelers for that dinner on the 21st.

While our field trip to London, this June has long been sold out.

This is still opening for the locals meetup dinner cruise in London on June 25th.

That information is also in the show notes or visit like mines travel.

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