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An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:
WOMEN'S HISTORY
(Last updated Fall 2002)

 
www.wowmuseum.org
Official site of the Women of the West Museum, featuring exhibits on pioneer and contemporary women who helped shape the West.
creativefolk.com/directories.html
A site providing information on U.S. Women's Studies Programs and Campus Women's Centers
www.rrlc.org/WSDPsites.html
A resource list maintained by the Rochester Regional Library Council on web sites, books, films, museums and parks that contain information on the woman suffrage and anti-suffrage movements.  Resources from across the United States as well as some from other countries are listed.
www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
Site includes a biography of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of the Underground Railroad, and links to other sites about her.
www.wawh.org
Site of the Western Association of Women Historians provides information on membership, publications, prizes and awards.
www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/cover.html
Site provides a finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives of New York University, prepared by Kathleen M. Barry, NYU graduate student in U.S. history.
womhist.binghamton.edu/
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000.  Site contains over forty projects with more than 1,000 documents and images as well as a large number of links to related sites.  Based on projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/jane.addams/addams.index.htm
Site with biographical information and photos of Jane Addams from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
PBS site based on the film Not For Ourselves Alone:  The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.  Resources include historic documents, articles and essays, biographies, and links to other web sites dealing with the woman suffrage movement.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Scanned pages and text of writings by African American women from the Special Collections Library of Duke University.  Includes links to related sites.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
Scanned pages and text of writings by women in the Civil War Era from the Special Collections Library of Duke University.  Includes links to related sites.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Site features transcribed texts and scanned images of over 40 articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets from the Special Collections Library of Duke University published from 1969 to 1974 on the early years of the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement. Also included is the original manuscript minute book of DAR II, a local activist group in Atlanta, Georgia.
www.dohistory.org/home.html
Site provides images and transcribed text of diaries, letters, maps, court records, town records, and account books from America's colonial history.  Also included is the fully searchable text of the 27-year diary of Martha Ballard, which was the basis of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, _A Midwife's Tale_.
www.womeninworldhistory.com/index.html
Women in World History.  Site includes images and text on Great Women Rulers and Female Heroes, as well as essays and links to sites related to women in world history.
www.h-net.msu.edu/~women/
H-Women website of the Humanities Network.  Includes discussion groups for women's history, book reviews, bibliographies, links to manuscript and archival collections, and links to other sites on women's history.
www.wasp-wwii.org
Site provides information on the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II.  Includes audio and video clips, World War II posters, diaries, photos, a timeline, a glossary, a display of uniforms, statistics, and links to other web sites on the WASPs.
http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
Suffragists Oral History Project provides on-line text of oral histories of seven leaders of the woman suffrage movement:  Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Jeannete Rankin (the first woman elected to Congress), Mabel Vernon, and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/digital.html 
Site offers papers, diaries, memoirs, and letters relating to African-American Women and Civil War Women, as well as over forty articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets on the Women's Liberation Movement published from 1969 to 1974, including the original manuscript minute book of DAR II, a local women's activist group in Atlanta, Georgia. Site maintained by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.



 

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