Sites about Women's History

Revised: May 15, 2001

• American Women's History Research Guide.  Developed by a History professor at Middle Tennessee State University, this site provides student guidance on these topics: General Reference/Biographical Sources, State and Regional History Sources, Finding Primary Sources, and Finding Books, Journal Articles, and Theses.  The Subject Index to Research Sources has links on 30  topics, from African American women to women in World War II.
• Women's History Research Sources at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH). This site, created in July 1997, concerns an extremely rich collection of materials on women's issues in Alabama, and possibly good materials for future master's theses in both history and literature.
• Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998. This is an award-winning site providing a detailed timeline of Women's Rights Movement events, an overview essay, a state-indexed list of planned celebrations, links to contemporary U.S. women's history and women's rights organizations, a sample proclamation, information about a Student Essay Project, program ideas, and commemorative program planning supplies.
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment - Primary sources, activities, and links to related web sites for educators and students from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.  Includes links to online versions of various documents in the battle for woman suffrage, from the 1868 "Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States" to the 1920 document in which Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, thus making women's right to vote law in the United States. 
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Primary Sources, Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students.  This site is sponsored by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 - "This website is intended to introduce students, teachers, and scholars to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Each project poses a question and provides 15-20 documents that address the question. These projects offer students an opportunity to understand historical research as an interpretive process. The website, now two years old, is co-directed by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities."
• CWLU Herstory - focus is on the Chicago Women's Labor Movement (1969-77) and how "a small group of women can make mountains move."  Good source of second wave women's movement history.
• The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920. This site has biographies, pictures, and other information about the British women's suffrage campaign.  In addition to many short biographies of feminist leaders with guides to further reading, the  site offers excerpts from source materials on a variety of related topics and images from Victorian prints and photographs.
• Women in Third World Countries.  Examines women's roles, rights and repression in Third World countries, exploring economic, political, religious and socio-cultural aspects of women's lives.
• Diotima: Materials for Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World (Course materials, bibliography, images, essays, Perseus, and more.)
• Archival Sites for Women's Studies (Superb collection of links to women-related archives. Part of WSSLINKS, the Association of College & Research Libraries' site.)
• Civil War Women: On-Line Archival Collections (Duke U. site devoted to women's participation in/response to the U.S. Civil War; includes scanned images, transcripts of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related links.)
• The Feminist Chronicles, 1953 - 1993 (A chronology of the feminist movement [primarily in the U.S.] from 1953 to 1993. Covers Events, Issues, and Backlash. Also includes early documents from the National Organization for Women and a bibliography. Online version of a print publication.)
• Horus' History Links: Women's History (Useful women's history links from the U. of California, Riverside.)
• Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections (A directory of women's history resources in the United States, created by the University of Texas at San Antonio. Organized by state.)
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History (A current bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than sixty European and American periodicals. ViVa is compiled at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.)

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