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The National Women's History Project - http://www.nwhp.org/
Official web site of the National Women's History Project: Originator of Women's History Month. Functions of the N.W.H.P.: Clearinghouse for U.S. women's history information; Issues a seasonal catalog of women's history posters, books and materials; Produces videos, posters, guides, and supplies for school and workplace; Conducts in-service training for school teachers; Coordinates the Women's History Network, a national participant organization; Provides consulting services for publishers, media producers, and journalists. |
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The National Women's Hall of Fame - http://www.greatwomen.org/
Dedicated to honoring women who have contributed significantly to the development of the country. Includes an extensive collection of biographical profiles. |
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Women in Congress - http://bioguide.congress.gov/congresswomen/alpha.asp
Biographies listed by state, alphabetically and chronologically. Main list includes the state, political party affiliation and dates served. |
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
The New York Public Library's digital collection of African-American literary and cultural history. |
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Nine hundred documents relating to the role of women in movements throughout American history. |
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African-American Women - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
An on-line collection of letters and memoirs of 19th century slave women, from Duke University. |
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National Museum of Women's History - http://www.nmwh.org/
A nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, focusing on Political Culture and Imagery of American Women's Suffrage. |
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The General Federation of Women's Clubs - http://www.gfwc.org/
Visit the Women's history and resource center to learn more about the history of women volunteers. |
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Places Where Women Made History - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/
The National Park Service has developed a travel itinerary featuring 74 different properties from the National Register of Historic Places in New York and Massachusetts. The itinerary includes interactive maps, descriptions of each place's significance in women's history, photographs, information on public accessibility, essays on women's achievements in American history, and links to other pertinent Web sites. |
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Living the Legacy of Women's Rights - http://www.legacy98.org/
The history of the U.S. women's rights movement, from 1848 to 1998. An excellent narrative, extensive chronology and links to contemporary activist organizations. |
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Michigan Women's Hall of Fame - http://members.tripod.com/mwfame/
Biographical and other historical information; calendar of events. |
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History of Jewish Women in America - http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/jewwom/jwmain.htm
List of significant repositories for American Jewish women's history, with information on published guides, examples of collections of oral histories and private papers, location of records of national offices of Jewish women's organizations; historical scholarship from 1970 to the present from journals, anthologies, and monographs. |
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Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project - http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/
From the Special Collections and Archives Department of the University of Texas at San Antonio Library. Collection features primary source materials written by or about women. |
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The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ladies/
Online version of a 19th century weekly London newspaper that sought out the burgeoning female readership, explicitly catering to upper-class society women who could pay the sixpenny rate, but implicitly offering middle-class women a guide to social-climbing success. |
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Women in America, 1820-1842 - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/detoc/fem/home.htm
The accounts of 18 foreign travelers describe the conditions of women's lives in the United States, accessed chronologically or topically for comparisons. |
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Sally Hemings - http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html
Biography of the slave daughter of Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings and, allegedly, John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law, from the Jefferson Memorial Foundation. |
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Women's History in America - http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm
Informative essay on the status of women from colonial America through the 19th and 20th centuries. Topic include religious views, legal rights, women at work, feminism, and reform movements. |
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Women's Rights National Historic Park - http://www.nps.gov/archive/wori/home.htm
The history of the women's movement. Located in Seneca Falls, N.Y., sites include Declaration Park and the house of early feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
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Mary Lyon - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
A schoolteacher from Massachusetts, an American pioneer, a remarkable woman who founded the worldwide model of higher education for women--Mount Holyoke College. |
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Women of Courage Profiles - http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/profiles.htm
Featured the stories of New York women who had made an impact on the North Country and were pioneers in their fields, which included education, medicine, art, politics and music. |
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Anne Hutchinson - http://www.annehutchinson.com/
Details of the events which defined the life of a member of the early Puritan settlement in America. |
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Women in the Twentieth Century - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/index.html
N.Y. Times magazine review of women's accomplishments and unresolved problems for the past 100 years. Published May, 1999 |
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Native American Women - http://www.bluecloud.org/women.html
Although customs affecting early Native American women varied greatly from tribe to tribe, they often had a great deal of power and authority over their lives. |
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The True Story of a Pioneer Mother - http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1657/Ahlstrom.html
Written by Marion Ahlstrom Hanson about her Grandmother, and published by Hale's Monthly Messenger, May 1929. |
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Nancy Ward - http://members.tripod.com/~SmithDRay/nancyward-index-5.html
The last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, and leader of the powerful Women's Council, by D. Ray Smith. |