American
Women's History
Read about American Women's History. Resources
are divided into General, Primary and Secondary
Sources. Some sites include provide a mix of resources.
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General General history links are sites that collect
links to history sites.
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US Women's History
Go directly to sites on US women's history, or select a sub-category, people
or women's suffrage.
Primary Sources
Primary sources are records from the past, recorded by people who were
present at the time such as letters, diaries, government documents, photographs,
oral histories, artifacts. .
Digital
Schomburg: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: Biographies
and Autobiographies
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting,
preserving and providing access to resources documenting
the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout
the world. This portion of their Web site has full
text of biographies by or about African American women
of the 19th century, arranged alphabetically by author.
Electronic
Text Center: Women Writers
Part of the Modern English Collection of the
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
This site has archived works by American and British
women writers. Note: Larger works can be retrieved
in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice.
Some items are available to UVa users only due to licensing
requirements.
Emma
Goldman: Online Exhibition
From UC Berkeley SunSITE. This site covers Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a major
figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. She was an anarchist
and an advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence,
union organization, and the eight-hour work day.
Emory Women
Writer's Project
The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited
texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the
nineteenth century. Texts can be sorted by ethnicity, date, genre or nationality.
The
Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
An online version of a print publication. "The Feminist Chronicles shows
the depth, breadth, and impact of the feminist movement on every facet of society
in the United States in the last forty years."
Internet
Women's History Sourcebook: North America
Based at Fordham University. The emphasis
here is access to primary source texts for educational
purposes. Part of the larger Internet Women's History
Sourcebook, this portion covers: General, Great
Women, Women's Oppression, The Structure of Women's
Lives, Women's Agency, Women Authors, Feminism, and
Gender Construction.
TSLAC: Votes for Women
From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Primary documents and narrative text cover the women's suffrage movement in Texas.
UC Berkeley: Suffragists Oral History
Project From UC Berkeley. Part of the Oral History project. This
site is somewhat awkward to navigate, due to frames, but has excellent
oral history accounts and biographical information on women who helped
change history.
What
Did You Do in the War Grandma?
A project of Brown University and Honors English
Program at South Kingstown High School, RI. This site
is mainly composed of twenty six oral history accounts
of grandmothers by their granddaughters. It also includes
a glossary, a brief WW II timeline and several articles
on women and WW II.
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are accounts of the past written after events have
taken place and generally give overviews or interpret history
Female
Frontiers: Profiles of Frontierswomen From the Women of NASA project, Female Frontiers. Get bios
and images of frontiering who have achieved "firsts" in history,
mostly related to space.
The
Handbook of Texas Online: Women An online version of the six-volume print
encyclopedia, brought to you through a joint project
of The General Libraries at UT Austin and the Texas
State Historical Association. The encyclopedia covers
Texas history, geography, and culture, with this portion
focusing on Texas women. Special interest: Biographical
Entries.
Showcase This site is part of a larger site covering Women Airforce
Service Pilots (WASP), the first women in US history authorized to fly
military aircraft. The showcase includes articles and papers written by
and about WASPs. To access other features of the larger site, use the navigation
bar on the right side of the page. Other features include RealAudio speeches,
pictures, history, quotes, and links to other WASP sites.
Temperance & Prohibition:
Woman's Crusade of 1873-74 Part of the Temperance & Prohibition site at Ohio State
University. Women were an integral part of the Temperance & Prohibition
movements in the United States. It is especially significant because
it demonstrated that women banding together, even without the right to
vote, could effect change. Read an overview, first hand accounts and
view illustrations of some of the events. Special interest: Frances
E. Willard.
WestWeb:
Making It Their Own: Women in the West Based at College of Staten Island, The City University of
New York and part of the larger WestWeb site. This site is organized
into Texts, Resources, Links to Other Sites and Women's Images. Probably
of most interest are Texts, which includes both primary and secondary
resources, and Resources which includes biographies of Western women
bibliographies, and teaching and study materials.
Women and Social Movements in the United
States, 1830-1930
An excellent resource created by graduate
students at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Each project poses a question and provides 15-20 primary
documents that address the question such as How
Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du
Bois toward Woman Suffrage Change between 1900 and
1915? or How Did Three Suffragists Lobby Congress
for Passage of the National Suffrage Amendment, 1917-1920?.
Select from the list by clicking the Go there button,
then select the Introduction button for background
information and the Document List button to
select primary documents to read about the topic.
Women in America, 1820 to 1842
From the University of Virginia, part of the larger Crossroads
project. The resources at this site can be accessed by topics or author.
Topics include: Arts & Entertainment, Appearance & Fashion, Asylums & Penitentiaries,
Courtship & Marriage, Employment, Education, Health, Indians, Law & Government,
Race, Religion, Travel and Wilderness. This information has been culled
from the works of such writers as Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope,
Harriet Martineau, and Alexis de Tocqueville. It also includes a Further
Reading List.
Women Veterans
This site is dedicated to American women who served in wars,
from the Revolutionary War to OPeration Desert Fox. Highlights include
topics like Women Who were Spies.
Women
Win the Vote, 1920 * Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage
* 1995
Based at the University of Maryland. Prepared in 1994 by National Women's History
Project to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the women's vote. This site covers:
Who Were They? 75 Suffragists Profiled, Taking a New Look at the Woman Suffrage
Movement, A Few Important Dates from the Woman Suffrage Movement, The Men Behind
the Women... , And Still They Persevered...A Brief History.
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