Women's History

Resources in this category:

About.Com: Women's History
http://womenshistory.about.com/

An Internet guide to women's history, with feature articles, Website guides, and discussion forums. Topics covered include rulers/queens, athletes, suffrage, aviation, labor, and more.

All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League
http://www.aagpbl.org/

Discover the history of the 1943-1954 women's professional ball league, which inspired the movie A League of Their Own. Here you will find complete rosters of all teams, records, research resources, and pictures.

American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/

This somewhat cynical but extremely informative site gives a detailed history of women in the military. It breaks the information down by conflict/war and names the famous women involved in each.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

"American Women's History is designed to assist serious researchers, such as history professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and possibly upper-division undergraduates. Librarians who assist these researchers may also want to become familiar with the guide. American Women's History 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."

Celebrating Women's History
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm

"Celebrate the lives and achievements of women who have played a significant role in literature, culture, politics, music, art and more." Includes biographies of more than 80 women, a women's history timeline, a quiz, and other activities.

Civil War Women
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digit...

"On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of women during the American Civil War. 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."

Diotima
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

"Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world." Contains extensive searchable bibliographies on various subjects, essays, suggestions for course materials, and a Biblical Studies resources page.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

"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. "

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

"The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group. The items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library. We are making these documents available on-line in order to support current teaching and research interests related to this period in U.S. history."

Early Modern Women Database
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3

"This database 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. ... Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access."

The Emancipation of Women: 1750-1920
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

A detailed history of the English Suffragette movement, including biographies, information on women in the 19th century, pressure groups, strategy and tactics, and parliamentary reform acts.

The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: a Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/bibliogs/hws/hws.htm

Offers extensive bibliographies about women in science, including bibliographies of biographies, scientific views of women, feminist critiques of science, and works on women in every scientific discipline. Other topics include women's health, the history of home economics, and the impact of technology on women. Searchable.

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1999
http://www.legacy98.org/

Living the Legacy contains numerous articles about the history of the women's movement and current issues, a timeline, and list of relevant women's organizations. The website was created by the National Women's History Project, an educational nonprofit organization, for the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement.

Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/

This website compliles translations of over 125 women writers, "women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry contains background on the author and that particular work, useful secondary sources and Internet sites. The site also offers information on how to obtain translations of these writings.

Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote
http://winningthevote.org/

This site details the women's suffrage movement, focusing on events and people in the Rochester region of western New York, beginning with the 1848 meeting of Seneca Falls. It includes a general history, biographies of women and men in the movement, timelines and some excellent links.

Women in American History
http://www.britannica.com/women/

An encyclopedia exploring the history, social conditions, and contributions of women in the United States. This resource can be explored in several ways. A series of timelines provides brief coverage of important events and people, beginning in the 1600's and continuing to the present day. There are also 2 sets of articles: biographies covering notable women in all spheres of activity, and subject-based articles covering organizations, legal cases and concepts, events, and institutions. The Media Gallery has video and audio clips (including video footage of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller demonstrating how Keller learned to speak), and "In Her Own Words" contains some of the primary documents important in American women's history. A bibliography of recommending reading materials and a study guide for use by teachers are also included. This site's comprehensive, multicultural focus make it an important American history resource.

Women of Achievment and Herstory
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/collections/woa/woa.html

"The founding purpose of the Women's Internet Information Network, Inc. is to present an encyclopedic coverage of women's lives, herstory, and achievement to any person, any place in the world who wants the information - and to offer it free here on the internet." The "Women of Achievment" page has 365 brief biographies of important women, searchable by name.

Women's Studies
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48547

This IPL pathfinder provides resources on women's studies and their role in society. Also known as Gender Studies or Feminist Studies, these topics range from the historical representation of women to the sociology of women today. Both print and Internet sources are provided.