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American Women
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
"The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001)."
Sections include: General Collections ; Serial & Government Publications ; Law Library ; Rare Books & Special Collections ; Manuscripts ; Prints & Photographs ; Geography and Maps ; Music ; Recorded Sound ; Moving Images ; American Folklife Center ; Area Studies ; Collections ; Topical Essays.
- American Memory, Library of Congress
Library of Congress
- Women's History Month
"In celebration of Women's History Month, the Library has developed this new Web site highlighting the many resources on women's history and culture available from our extensive online collections."
National Women's History Project (NWHP)
"The 2007 theme,"Generations of Women Moving History Forwardî 2007 presents special opportunities to highlight some critically important historic events, including the 50th anniversary of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the 30th anniversary of the National Womenís Conference in Houston, Texas.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
"...provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources."
By Ken Middleton, Reference Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University
H-WOMEN Links to Online Resources for Teaching and Research
Sections include General Resources and Associations, Images and Sound, Interactive and Viewable Atlases, OnLine Journals, Miscellaneous, and Media Sources. Extensive listings under each category
Women in American History - (dead link)
Includes Articles, Ask the Experts, Recommended Reading, Media Gallery, Study Guide, In Her Own Words, Women's History on the Web, and more
From the Encyclopedia Britannica
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The 19th Century American Women Writers Web
An ever growing collection of online texts as well as useful web tools including a web tutorial
AFSCME LaborLinks: Women's Labor History
Sections include: General Links ; Women's Trade Union League ; Mother Jones and Other Women in the Mines ; Women and Labor in the Textile and Garment Industries ; Wobbly Women ; Other Famous Women in Labor History ; Women's Labor Songs - Lyrics.
- American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees.
Akron Women's History
"For more than 20 years, the Women's History Project of the Akron Area (WHP) has celebrated the roles women have played in the history of the city, the county and the region."
American Indian Women - (dead link)
Sections include: Bibliographies/Databases ; Biographical Sources ; Encyclopedias ; Museums & Historical Sites ; Networking Tools ; Primary Sources.
From American Women's History: A Research Guide - (dead link)
By Ken Middleton, Reference Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University
America's Quilting History
"It covers the history of American quilting including women and their quilting from Colonial America to the mid 20th century plus Native American, African American and Amish quilts. The site also includes quilt history articles, book reviews, myths found in quilting history, a directory to quilt and history sites and a section for students and teachers."
By Anne Johnson
Asian American Women's History - Chronology - (dead link)
By Teresa Huang
Attending to Early Modern Women
"This gateway provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 but also includes some medieval and nineteenth-century resources...Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings."
Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries
Beauty Be Woman - History of American Women
Sections on the Founding Mothers, the ERA and much more
Columbia Law School - Diamond Law Library
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
"This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers and others."
Maintained by Danuta Bois
Eleanor Roosevelt - American Visionary
Sections include: Overview ; Family ; Political Allies ; On Her Own ; Val-Kill Industries ; Her Cottage.
- National Park Service Museum
Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Women
"This web site is intended to contribute to the exploration of the life of one of the greatest American women of the twentieth century."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American Poet & Journalist & Free Thinker (1850-1919)
Sections include: Poems ; Books ; Biographies ; Photographs ; Bibliography ; Miscellaneous ; What's New.
Created by Richard A. Edwards
Franco-American Women's Institute (FAWI)
"The Franco-American Women's Institute is an organization in Maine, a group of women who gather together for the specific purpose of promoting ethnic women's voices. The Franco-American Women's Institute is also an archival place or a recording place. The women come together as Franco-American women--QuÈbÈcois, Acadian, MÈtis, and Mixed Blood--in a way which encourages them to be voiced while collecting a record of their and their maman's existence. Daughters, mamans, and mÈmËres."
Lea Gilmore's It's A Girl Thang! - (dead link) Women in the Blues
Sections include: Historical Profiles ; International Blues Women ; Featured Artists ; Women Behind the Blues ; Ladies Links.
Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876-1972
"The home page for the Natalie Clifford Barney pages, a web site devoted to Natalie Barney, her life and times."
National Park Service - Women's History Month 2003
"The National Register of Historic Places is pleased to promote awareness of and appreciation for the historical accomplishments of American women during Women's History Month. As part of the celebration, this site showcases historic properties listed in the National Register, National Register publications, and National Park units commemorating the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate the contribution of women to the Nation's history."
- A National Register of Historic Places Feature
PBS - NOVA - Secret of Photo 51
Meet the Unsung Heroine Behind the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix.
"...unravels the mystery behind the discovery of the double helix and investigates the seminal role that Rosalind Franklin and her remarkable X-ray photograph played in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science... The program draws on extensive interviews with surviving major participants in the DNA drama."
Sections include: Article & Interview ; Slide Shows & Interactives ; Resources ; Links & Books ; Program Transcript.
PBS American Experience - Fly Girls
"During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military...joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies."
Sections include: Program Description ; Enhanced Transcript ; Interview.
PBS American Experience - The Pill
"The film The Pill and this companion Web site offer insights into topics in American history including advances in science and medicine, contraception, eugenics, social engineering, population trends, government involvement in legislating social behavior, conflicts between religious values and societal trends, feminist activism of the 1960s, twentieth century women's movements, women's changing roles in society, women and work, the evolving relationship of the medical profession to the lay public and the growth of the pharmaceutical industry."
Sections include: Film Description ; Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.
PBS - American Experience - The Time of the Lincolns
"A companion to the film Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, produced and directed by David Grubin...offer insights into topics in American history including women's rights, slavery, abolition, politics and partisanship, the growth of the industrial economy, and the Civil War."
Sections include: Partisan Politics ; Slavery & Freedom ; A Rising Nation ; Americans at War ; A Woman's World ; Teacher's Guide ; Maps ; Foot Soldiers ; Virtual Tour [slave cabin and examine the conditions of slavery].
PBS American Masters - Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Web companion to the TV broadcast.
Sections include: Feature Essay ; Career Timeline ; Additional Footage ; Filmmaker Interview.
- Lesson Plan: Under Joni Mitchell's Influence (Grades 9-12)
"...examine the concept of influence, and explore how Joni Mitchell and her work have influenced others. Students will have a chance to study, interpret, and enjoy her lyrics by using the Choral Reading method."
PBS - NOVA Online
- The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Companion web site to the October 2004 TV broadcast.
"Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s."
Sections include: History of Quarantine ; Disease Detective ; Links & Books ; Teacher's Guide.
PBS - P.O.V. - The Smith Family
A Film By Tasha Oldham
"On her ninth wedding Anniversary, Kim's Perfect Life is shattered when she learns that her husband Steve has been having affairs with men. Three years later, she discovers she is HIV-positive ... The one thing I was sure of was that I wanted to tell it as Kim's story."
Sections include: Discover More ("Follow Tony Smith to Mexico and find out what it's like to be a Mormon Missionary") ; Get Involved ; Inspired By ; Behind the Lens ; Talking Back ; Classroom ; About the Film.
Women in American History - (dead link)
By Encyclopedia Britannica
Sections include: Early America ; The Nineteenth Century ; At the Crossroads ; Modern America ; Articles ; Media Gallery ; In Her Own Words ; Women's History on the Web ; Recommended Reading ; Study Guide.
Women of the Century
100 Years of American Heroes
"Meet over 50 phenomenal women who changed the course of history during
the twentieth century. Explore the major events over each decade. Play Note the Quote--a trivia game that challenges you to match the names of notable women to their quotes."
From Discovery School
Women's Folk Music Resources
A Musical Romp Through Women's History
"Site includes lyrics and historical notes for woman-positive folksongs, bibliographies, discographies, even an annotated list of 200+ recorded songs and compilations related to domestic violence/sexual assault."
By Gerri Gribi
Women's History Month
This general site from the FamilyEducation Network includes Articles, Quizzes, Resources, Discussion, and Activities
Women's Labor History
Sections include: General Women's Labor History Links ; Women's Trade Union League ; Mother Jones and Other Women in the Mines ; Textile and Garment Industries ; Wobbly Women ; Other Famous Women in Labor History ; Women's Labor Songs - Lyrics ; Women's History - General.
From AFSCME LaborLinks
Women's Legal History Biography Project
Virtual library project of Stanford University's Law Library.
"This website grows from the Women's Legal History course taught by Professor Barbara Babcock at Stanford Law School. Its purpose is to show through the biographies of pioneer women lawyers how the women's movements have shaped legal history and the larger culture."
Women's Liberation Research Network
"Using the resources of this website, you may find others doing research related to your interests, libraries and archives with collections that you can use, ideas for research topics"
Maintained by Ginny Daley, Women's Studies Archivist and Bibliographer, Duke University
Women's Work in the 19th Century
"This site is a bibliography of Web sites related to the work of women in the 19th century. The original bibliography was a class handout."
The site also includes extensive links to general women's history resources
Additional Resources
First National Chicana Conference - (dead link)
Workshop Resolutions
The International Women's Air and Space Museum
Dayton Ohio
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Women's Hall of Fame
American Association for the History of Nursing
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