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  • African American Women's History

    About.com directory of sites. "Uncover the history of African American women: the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights. Biographies, organizations, events and movements."

  • African-American Women: On-line Archival Exhibits

    Digitized pages and texts of the writings of African-American women. From Duke University.

  • AFSCME Laborlinks: Women's Labor History

    Provides a variety of annotated links to sites and information on the history of women in the U. S. labor movement.

  • American Womens History: A Research Guide

    This is an excellent website on American womens history, with a link to digital collections of primary sources.

  • American Women Through Time

    Chronology of women's history in the U.S.

  • American Women's History : African-American Women

    Guide to sources.

  • By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

    The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of thePrints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual wayin which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.

  • Defining Her Life: Advice Books for Women

    An exhibit of advice and conduct books from the past 300 yeas.

  • Diotima

    Interdisciplinary research tool for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

  • Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

    Focus is on women and issues of gender among the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and other ancient cultures.

  • Directory of Sources for Women's History in Ireland

    This database "contains information on collections relating to the history of women in Ireland from the earliest times to the present, gathered from public and private repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. The Directory covers over 14,000 collections and sources and contains over 100,000 pieces of information from 262 repositories."

  • Discovering American Women's History Online

    "This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century."

  • Early Modern Women Database

    "This database provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians on the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-textresources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access."

  • From Warrior Women to Female Pharaohs: Careers for Women in Ancient Egypt

    B.B.C. essay describing how ancient Egyptian women's "ability to exercise varying degrees of power and self-determination was most unusual in the ancient world."

  • History of Women in Sports Timeline

    A chronology ranging from 776 BC till the end of the 20th Century.

  • Internet Women's History Sourcebook

    Exhaustive compendium of links to primary sources in women's history worldwide. Divided into major historical periods, different countries and continents, with sections for general rosources, great women of particular times and places, the structure of women's lives, women's agency, feminism, women's oppression, and gender construction.

  • National Women's History Project

    "The National Women's History Project is an educational nonprofit organization. Our mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs."

  • No Job for a Woman Exhibit

    This online exhibit, from the Imperial War Museum in London, chronicles women's experiences during war in the 20th century.

  • Remember the Women Institute

    "The Remember the Women Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that conducts and encourages research and cultural activities that contribute to including women in history. . . .Special emphasis is on women in the context of the Holocaust and its aftermath, including post-World War II immigration. Other topics include women marginalized within Jewish religion and inter-religious dialogue, as well as the accomplishments and exclusion of women in Jewish and general history, the effects of genocide on women, exploitation of women, and the effects of culture on memorialization."

  • Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

    Library of Congress site containts photos and prints of the women's suffrage movement and a collection of text documents. Searchable and browsable.

  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940

    By providing a rich collection of primary documents. . .the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American history." Includes more than 600 documents and over 100 images accesible via a search engine.

  • Women and the Holocaust

    Curriculum resources which support a scholarly examination of womens experiences during the Holocaust.

  • Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

    A Library of Congress exhibition highlighting the wartime activities of: Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Claire Booth Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig.

  • Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present

    "This bibliography is an effort to collect the current international literature on women immigrants. It is a supplement and update of the publication, Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography that is available from Greenwood Press."

  • Women in the Korean War

    Fact sheet, photos, and a bibliography provide an overview of the role of Women during the Korean War.

  • Women Working, 1790-1930

    This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression by providing access to historical manuscipts, images and other primary sources.

  • Women Working, 1870-1930

    This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression by providing access to historical manuscipts, images and other primary sources.

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