Links to Internet Sites about Women's History |
"Well behaved women seldom make history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
General Topics
American
Women's
History: A Research Guide
A good place to begin. This site will help you find a suitable
topic for your research. It also provides useful links for
primary sources. This is the site of
Searching
American
Memory for Women's History Material
This is a good place to start your search when looking through
the Library of Congress for materials concerning Women's
History. There is a guide to help you find relevant materials in
the different collections.
Civil
War Women
Developed by Duke University. On-line archival collections
featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of women
during the American Civil War. Currently includes the 1864 diary of
Alice Williamson, a 16 year old girl from Gallatin,
Tennessee; the papers of
Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy; and the
papers of
Sarah E. Thompson, a spy for the Union. Links will take
you to other primary resources including diaries, letters and
photographs. You might also look at The
Diary of a Civil War Nurse which is a digital
collection from the American History Museum and allows you to
use an interactive map that allows you to experience the places
Amanda Akin encountered as a nurse. Civil
War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet. Many links.
Developed by The Special Collections Library, Duke University.
H-WOMEN
Part of the H-NET Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine
initiative. H-WOMEN encourages scholarly discussion to
communicate current research and teaching interests, to discuss
new approaches, methods and tools of analysis, to test new ideas
and to share comments on current historiography in the field of
women's history. Has information on bibliographies, course
syllabi and dissertations, exhibition announcements and
manuscripts and archives, as well as links to internet sites of
interest to H-WOMEN subscribers. There are also scholarly
reviews of books and monographs central to the field and a
search engine to help one find material on specific subjects.You
might also look at the Status
of Women in the States. This site of the Institute
of Women's Policy Research think tank which analyzes the impact
of public policy on women in a number of different fields.
Feminist Majority
Sponsored by the Feminist Majority Foundation. Links to feminist
journals, current events, breast cancer information, history and
education links, and career information.
Women's History
Matters
The Montana Historical Society created this site in 2014 to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in
Montana. There are at least 130 articles published in Montana
The Magazine of Western History, plus oral histories,
bibliographies, biographies and educator resources.
Women's
History in America
Presented by Women's
Women's History
Presented by History.net. Short biographies of many women
leaders throughout the world and additional links concerning
them. There is a Today in History link which includes birthdays
of notable women plus quotations by more than 250 different
women, a collection of primary documents, and information about
Women's History Month.
National Museum of Women's
History
The National Museum of Women's History in
Specialized Topics
Women
in
America,
1820-1842
"'It is considered very indelicate for ladies and gentlemen to
sit down together on the grass,' was the response given to
Frances Trollope in
Echoes and
Evidence: Nursing Histroy and Health Policy Blog
The Barbara Gates Center for the Study of History of Nursing is
part of the Universtiy of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing. The
Bates Center has the world's largest nursing history archives.
Tbhis blog has an interdisciplinary group of contributors who
provide insights as to how studying the history of nursing
affects modern health care policy.
Diatima: Materials for
the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Resource for persons interested in patterns of gender around the
ancient
Women
Veterans--A History of Their Past; Information for the
Present
Articles on participation of women in the wars of American
history, from the Revolution to the present. Non-scholarly in
approach.
The
Women's
Army
Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service
A somewhat scholarly historical study by Judith A. Bellafaire.
Illustrated. Sponsored by the Center for Military History of the
Civil
War
Women:
Primary Sources on the Internet
Many links. From
International Women's Air
& Space Museum Site
Includes an introductory article, "Women Who Made History, and
individual biographies of women who have made important
achievements in air and space.
"Votes
for
Women":
Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, 1848-1921
Part of the Library of Congress'
American Memory collections. Consists of the texts of 167
books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the suffrage
campaign. Includes writings by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Lulia Ward Howe, etc. The following
site is a companion to this one."Votes
for
Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 Selection of
thirty-eight pictures from the Prints and Photographs Division
of the Library of Congress. Includes portraits of individuals,
photos of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an
anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the
movement. A pictorial accompaniment for the text documents in
"'Votes for Women': Selections from the National American Woman
Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920."Also useful is the History of U.S.
Woman's Suffrage: Crusade for the Vote. This is a
valuable collection of primary documents, videos, essays with an
interactive timeline.
Margaret
Sanger
Papers
Project
Developed by the History Department at NYU, this site has
biographical information and links to primary and secondary
sources concerning Sanger and reproductive rights.
Jane Addams
Digital Project
A dgitized collection of Addams' papers from 1901-1935. You can
find letters, speeches, articles and more.
African-American
Women
On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts
of the writings of African-American women. Currently includes
the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857
letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a
The International
Archive of Women in Architecture
The IAWA was established in 1985 as a joint program of the
Biographies
of
Women
Mathematicians
All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League (1943-1954) Home Page
The league was the brainchild and social experiment of Philip K.
Wrigley, the chewing-gum mogul who had inherited the Chicago
Cubs major league baseball franchise from his father. In 1943
American men were serving in the armed forces during the Second
World War, and it was then Wrigley developed the idea of women
playing professional baseball which eventually grew into the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Godey's
Lady's
Book
From the site: "Housed at the
Emory
Women
Writers
Research Project
A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in
English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth
century. Several deal with slavery.
Women and
Social Movements (1600 - 2000)
A project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and
Gender at the State University of New York at
Women,
Enterprise & Society
This collection maintained by the Baker Library of Harvard
Business School documents women in American business and culture
from the 18th through 20th century. While not
comprehensive, this site does include a number of primary
sources concerning women's roles in American business. .
Pocahontas
Archive
Lehigh University maintains this very interesting site. The
annotated bibliography is probably the most useful part of this
site, but the images, essays and other links are also valuable.
Women in
the Military
The purpose of the Women's Memorial Web site is to
recognize the achievements of women who have served in the
military from the American Revolution to the present.
Mississippi
State University History Archive
The Mississippi State University American History Archive is a
great place to start for pointers to women's history
sites. The site is divided into 3 sections: articles,
e-books and links. Each section has a great diversity of
information and the site makes for interesting browsing.