Women's History Online Resources
General Information
American
International
Feminist
Law and Suffrage
In Science
General
Biographies
of Historical Women
Contains brief biographical sketches.
Internet
Women's History Sourcebook
Provides access primary sources and other teaching materials in a
non-commercial environment. From Fordham University's History Department.
National Women's History Project
A clearinghouse providing information on multicultural women's
history.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Highlights from the museum and biographies of great women artists
from the 16th century through modern day.
Women's History
Month
Biographies, timelines and links to other resources.
Women's
History Sites
Supersite providing links to resources about women throughout history,
women's movements, and the like. Maintained by the Women's Studies
Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
American
Women and Social Movements
Learning modules related to women's social movements in the U.S.
between 1600 and 2000. Originally student-authored projects supervised
by faculty at the State University of New York, this website has grown
to include submissions by faculty and students at various American
colleges and universities.
Women in American History
Multimedia exhibit on women in American history from Encycolopedia
Brittanica.
American Women's
History
Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as
well as to selected large primary source collections. Maintained by
Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee University.
U.S Department of Labor - Women's
Bureau
Reports and statistics on women in the workforce from the US government.
Civil
War Women
On-line primary sources and links from the Special Collections
Library at Duke University.
Center for American
Women and Politics
A directory of links presented by Rutgers University.
Military Women Veterans
Information on women in the military from the Revolutionary War
to the present.
Women in the U.S. Navy
From the U.S. Navy website, includes accounts from Navy women, historical
military documents, and recruiting posters from WWII.
Jewish Women's Archive
Online exhibits, biographies, timelines and other resources.
Women Come
to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World
War II
A Library of Congress exhibit.
International
Latina/Latin American
Women
UT-LANIC. Links to Web sites on women & gender studies.
List is divided by region/country - Latin America, United States,
Mexico, South America.
Gifts of Speech
A web-based archive of speeches by influential, contemporary women
from around the world.
Women's
Studies Information Sources
Links to sites in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Includes resources such as translated primary source texts, photographs,
and essays.
Women in World History
Covers a variety of topics such as female heroes, women in the
Muslim world, women in the ancient near east, etc.
Feminist
Feminist Majority Organization
Presents news, research, and more concerning women's equality,
reproductive health, and non-violence.
National Organization of Women.
Contains legislative updates, action plans, and more relating
to women's issues of eliminating sexism and ending oppression.
Documents from the Women's Liberation
Movement
Items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from
original documents and focus specifically on the radical origins of
this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From Duke University.
Detailed Timeline of the Women's
Rights Movement
1850's-1990's
Law and Suffrage
Equal Rights Amendment
Text of amendment, secondary sources.
Chronology of
the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1996
Details efforts to have an amendment passed calling for constitutional
equality for women.
Marriage, Women and the Law
1815-1914
Click on connect to go to webpage. Primary and secondary articles
sources from Britain and the U.S. about marriage, divorce, adultery,
miscegenation, polygamy, and birth control.
American Suffragist Movement
Timeline and a few primary and secondary sources.
Women's
Suffrage
Text and bibliographic information on the American suffrage movement,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.
Women's Suffrage:
A World Chronology
A World Chronology of the Recognition of Women's Rights to Vote
and to Stand for Election.
Votes For Women
Selections from the Library of Congress' National American Women's
Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.
In Science
Women in Science
Contains some short biographical information and links
to sites on some of the most famous women in science.
Four Thousand Years of
Women in Science
Biographies and photographs and a bibliography.
NASA's Female Frontiers
Information on women pioneers in a variety of careers, as well
as the Women of NASA.
The
Field Museum's Women of Science
Interviews with 13 women in science, 2 historical profiles and
a small page of links.
Pioneering Women
of Computing
Short biographies of 12 women pioneers in computer science. From Yale
University.
Contributions of 20th Century Women
to Physics
Presented here is an archive of data on 86 twentieth century women
who have made original and important contributions to physics. From
UCLA.
The Ninety-Nines: Women in
Aviation History
Biographies of women have made a significant contribution to aviation.
Women
in Aviation and Space History
Biographical sketches from the Smithsonian.
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