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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.
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.
Women's
History Sites
Yahoo:
Women's History
Many links, some to endsites, others to more links about specialized
topics.
Women's
History: A Guide to MTSU Library & Internet Resources
This is the site of
National Women's History Project
Founded in 1980 as a nonprofit educational organization to promote
gender
equity through education about women's diverse lives and
accomplishments. The
organization initiated National Women's History Month, observed each
March.
Some of site's features: "Ideas to Use," "National Women's
History Month," "Exemplary Programs," "Important History
Links," "Test Your Women's History Knowledge," and "Women's
History Network."
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.
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 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
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
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
Civil
War
Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Many links. From
Making
It Their Own: Women in the West
Part of a larger site, WestWeb, developed by Catherine Lavender,
Department of
History,
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.
Women
in
Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Includes over 800 references to books, journal articles, theses,
manuscript
collections, and miscellaneous publications. Topics: Key Sources/Sites,
African-Americans, American Indians, Arts & Literature,
Biographical Index,
Civil War, Courtship/Marriage, Daily Life, Education, Oral History,
Politics,
Religion, Social Reforms, Sports, Women's Rights, Work, and World War
II.
Although this site's focus may seem a bit esoteric for non-Tennesseans,
there
are references to excellent materials of interest to students of
The
Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920
Has to do with women in
"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."
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.
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
"You will find a slowly growing collection of texts and images from all portions of the book. Selected authors will be highlighted and fashion will not be neglected. Along with selections from the magazine itself you will also find articles about various aspects of the Book as well as commentary on related scholarly works."
Godey's
Lady's Book
Online
Another site about one of the most popular lady's books of the
nineteenth
century. Has several issues, each containing poetry, an engraving, and
articles
by well-known American authors of the time. Produced by Roger Corrie
and Niki
Slodysko, Electronic Historical Publications,
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 (1775 - 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. .
Women's
History
& Women's Studies
Created by ACC History Bibliographer, Cherry Beth Luedtke.
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