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The National Women's Hall of Fame - http://www.greatwomen.org/
Dedicated to honoring women who have contributed significantly to the development of the country. Includes an extensive collection of biographical profiles. |
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The National Women's History Project - http://www.nwhp.org/
Official web site of the National Women's History Project: Originator of Women's History Month. Functions of the N.W.H.P.: Clearinghouse for U.S. women's history information; Issues a seasonal catalog of women's history posters, books and materials; Produces videos, posters, guides, and supplies for school and workplace; Conducts in-service training for school teachers; Coordinates the Women's History Network, a national participant organization; Provides consulting services for publishers, media producers, and journalists. |
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
The New York Public Library's digital collection of African-American literary and cultural history. |
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Living the Legacy of Women's Rights - http://www.legacy98.org/
The history of the U.S. women's rights movement, from 1848 to 1998. An excellent narrative, extensive chronology and links to contemporary activist organizations. |
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Women in Congress - http://bioguide.congress.gov/congresswomen/alpha.asp
Biographies listed by state, alphabetically and chronologically. Main list includes the state, political party affiliation and dates served. |
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Nine hundred documents relating to the role of women in movements throughout American history. |
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African-American Women - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
An on-line collection of letters and memoirs of 19th century slave women, from Duke University. |
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National Museum of Women's History - http://www.nmwh.org/
A nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, focusing on Political Culture and Imagery of American Women's Suffrage. |
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Duke Women's Archives & Special Collections - http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/women/
The Women's Archives is an integral part of Duke's Special Collections Library, which houses a broad range of rare and unique primary source material. Some print materials are digitized and can be accessed via the web. |
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Michigan Women's Hall of Fame - http://members.tripod.com/mwfame/
Biographical and other historical information; calendar of events. |
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The General Federation of Women's Clubs - http://www.gfwc.org/
Visit the Women's history and resource center to learn more about the history of women volunteers. |
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Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project - http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/
From the Special Collections and Archives Department of the University of Texas at San Antonio Library. Collection features primary source materials written by or about women. |
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Women's Rights National Historic Park - http://www.nps.gov/archive/wori/home.htm
The history of the women's movement. Located in Seneca Falls, N.Y., sites include Declaration Park and the house of early feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
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Women's History in America - http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm
Informative essay on the status of women from colonial America through the 19th and 20th centuries. Topic include religious views, legal rights, women at work, feminism, and reform movements. |
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Women in Alaska's History - http://library.thinkquest.org/11313/
Introduces the diverse women who helped shape today's Alaska. |
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History of Jewish Women in America - http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/jewwom/jwmain.htm
List of significant repositories for American Jewish women's history, with information on published guides, examples of collections of oral histories and private papers, location of records of national offices of Jewish women's organizations; historical scholarship from 1970 to the present from journals, anthologies, and monographs. |
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The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ladies/
Online version of a 19th century weekly London newspaper that sought out the burgeoning female readership, explicitly catering to upper-class society women who could pay the sixpenny rate, but implicitly offering middle-class women a guide to social-climbing success. |
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Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame - http://www.cwhf.org/
Mission statement and recent inductees. Located at the Hartford College for Women in Hartford. |
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Women in America, 1820-1842 - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/detoc/fem/home.htm
The accounts of 18 foreign travelers describe the conditions of women's lives in the United States, accessed chronologically or topically for comparisons. |
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Women of Courage Profiles - http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/profiles.htm
Featured the stories of New York women who had made an impact on the North Country and were pioneers in their fields, which included education, medicine, art, politics and music. |
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Women in the Twentieth Century - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/index.html
N.Y. Times magazine review of women's accomplishments and unresolved problems for the past 100 years. Published May, 1999 |
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Anne Hutchinson - http://www.annehutchinson.com/
Details of the events which defined the life of a member of the early Puritan settlement in America. |
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Native American Women - http://www.bluecloud.org/women.html
Although customs affecting early Native American women varied greatly from tribe to tribe, they often had a great deal of power and authority over their lives. |
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Ladies' Union Aid Society - http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/luas/
During the Civil War, women supporting the Union effort organized to aid the cause significantly. Their work in Missouri typified the effort elsewhere. |
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Nancy Ward - http://members.tripod.com/~SmithDRay/nancyward-index-5.html
The last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, and leader of the powerful Women's Council, by D. Ray Smith. |
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The Women's Archives at Oklahoma State University - http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/collect/women.htm
Detailed biographies of notable women in Oklahoma history including Angie Debo, Jessie Thatcher Bost, Hannah Atkins and the WAVES. |
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Places Where Women Made History - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/
The National Park Service has developed a travel itinerary featuring 74 different properties from the National Register of Historic Places in New York and Massachusetts. The itinerary includes interactive maps, descriptions of each place's significance in women's history, photographs, information on public accessibility, essays on women's achievements in American history, and links to other pertinent Web sites. |
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Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska - http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/zakrzews.html
DistinguishedWomen.com biography of an instructor at the New England Female Medical College who convinced the Board of Lady Managers to open a new teaching hospital. |
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Sally Hemings - http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html
Biography of the slave daughter of Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings and, allegedly, John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law, from the Jefferson Memorial Foundation. |
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American Women's History - http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-state.html
An on-line research-guide to state and regional women's history resources. |
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Robin Flies Again - http://www.goucher.edu/library/robin
Letters written by women of Goucher College, Class of 1903, from 1919-1938, that document topics about suffrage, war, the depression and family life. Also photographs, yearbook, songbook and links. |
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Mary Lyon - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
A schoolteacher from Massachusetts, an American pioneer, a remarkable woman who founded the worldwide model of higher education for women--Mount Holyoke College. |
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National Museum of Women's History - http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/exhibit_frames.html
the museum's first "virtual exhibit" examines the development of the culture and imagery the evolved to promote women's voting rights in the U.S.: extensive collection of banners, buttons, documents. |