Women's History WWW Resources
American
Memory
The Library of Congress National Digital Library has created this resource
offering links to primary source and archival materials relating to American
culture and history. Click on the Search hyperlink and type women in
the search form field.
American
Memory: Votes for Women
This site offers selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection. This resource draws information about the Women's Suffrage Movement
between 1848 and 1921. It is sponsored by the Library of Congress.
American
Women's History: A Research 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." This site is designed
by Ken Middleton, Reference Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University Library.
American
Women
"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 . . . The guide
has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to
existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Web
site. These materials are supplemented by a small number of newly digitized
items that provide a sample of the many relevant types of materials available
in Library of Congress holdings . . . . The Research Guide also provides practical
search tips, detailed collection summaries of the Library's voluminous multiformat
holdings, and links to fuller catalog record descriptions and digitized material."
Caleb
Johnson's MayflowerHistory.com
Click on the About the Author hyperlink (under Introduction) to read
about the author of this site that provides a wealth of information about
Mayflower history and genealogy. The Girls on the Mayflower and Women
on the Mayflower hyperlinks (under History) are useful links related to
women's history.
Emory
Women Writers Resource 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."
First Lady's Gallery
Links to information about first ladies is provided at this White House Web
site.
History
- American and British--Women's History
Librarians from Rutgers University Libraries have created links to scholarly
Internet resources about American and British history. This section includes
several links to sites about women under the "Sites Organized by Subject"
link.
History
Channel's Search any Topic in History
Visit the History Channel's list of recommended Web sites on various historical
topics. Type women in the search box to find a myriad of sites about
women in history.
Latin
American Network Information Center--Womens & Gender Studies
This Web resource, affiliated with The Institute of Latin American Studies:
University of Texas at Austin, offers a comprehensive set of links for research
dealing with women and women's roles in Latin America and the United States.
An International Resources area links to sources that effect women worldwide.
Literature
of the Holocaust
Visit this page created by Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania for
links describing holocaust literature. Type women in the Search box to search
for information specifically about women.
National
Women's History Project
"The National Women's History Project is an educational nonprofit organization.
. . . [whose] mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic
accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials
and programs."
The
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
The reference is self-described as "an academic site, written and maintained
by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious
students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors
are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field
of medieval studies."
Organization
of American Historians: Magazine of History (1985-1995)
This ten year index includes informative articles and lesson plans on particular
themes in American and world history. Use the Find button on your browser's
toolbar to search for the word women.
President
This site offers links to presidential and first ladies' information. A special
feature includes links to presidential Web sites.
Sallie
Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
"The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture is an integral
part of Duke's Special Collections Library which houses a broad range of rare
and unique primary source material."
Subject
Listing of Women and Gender Resources
Check out the history links about women from the the Office of the University
of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
Women:
History
This page, available via the Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville Web
site, provides links to United States government documents about women in
the following categories: American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for
the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Library of
Congress); Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
(National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution); Exploring a
Common Past: Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service 1996
(National Park Service); Earhart, Amelia; Margaret Sanger Papers Project (Department
of History, New York University); Perkins, Frances (Secretary of Labor, 1933-1945);
Places Where Women Made History (National Park Service); Rosenberg, Ethel;
Seneca Falls Declaration (U.S. Department of State); The Use and Need of the
Life of Carry A. Nation by Carry Nation (Project Gutenberg); Women and the
Military; Women Depicted in Art in the United States Capitol (Architect of
the Capitol); Women Soldiers of the Civil War (Prologue, National Archives
and Records Administration); Women's History (Library of Congress); Women's
Suffrage; and World War II.
Women
in America
Read excerpts from foreign visitors describing the role of women in America
during the years 1820 to 1842. These full-text documents are available through
the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia. The boxes located
at the bottom of the page allow users to locate resources searching by author
or topic.
Women's
Resources on the Internet
Links to women's history resources are included at this site from the University
of North Carolina's Women's Resource Project.
Women's
Studies
This site includes links (under history and area studies) to bibliographies
of print sources and Internet resources about women's history. Information
about the authors is located at the bottom of the page.
The
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History
"The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women's history
institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and
provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also
included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link
collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's
studies in general." It includes links to reference sources; conferences
and calls for papers; Institutions, Web resources related to specific periods
of history (general, ancient, medieval, early modern, modern), geographic
locations (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Canada, Europe), and topics (aviation
and space, media, Jews, lesbians, sexuality, witchcraft, art, labour, business,
medicine and nursing, music, men (masculinity), military, science and engineering,
writing, women's rights and suffrage, writers, and resources from other disciplines)."This
section of the WWW Virtual Library is maintained by the International Institute
of Social History."
WSSLINKS
Women's History Sites
This site, authored by the Women's Studies Section Collection Development
Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, includes information
about women in ancient and medieval times; American, Canadian, and International
women's history; Women's History Month sites; women's history conferences;
and women's history speakers and performers.
WWWomen:
The Premier Search Directory for Women Online
Investigate the Women Throughout History hyperlink at this commercial Web
site. All about WWW Women gives information about the sponsors and purpose
of this site.
All quoted material is from the respective source.
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