Resources for Research

Megasites

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
  By Ken Middleton, Todd Library, Middle Tennessee State University. Best source for finding digital collections by topic. Also includes bibliographies and brief reviews of recent books, as well as links to biographical sources, online journals, and other resources.
• Women's History Sites, originally compiled by Rachel Cassel Murphree; as of March, 2001, maintained by Ruth Dickstein. It is part of WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies web site of the Women's Studies Section, American Library Association. Includes sites with resources for celebrating Women's History Month.
• Archival Collections with significant holding relevant to women's history. List from the Special Collections and Archives Department, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio Library.
• Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids can be searched for "women" and other topics.
• Archival Sites for Women's Studies, maintained by Nina Clements as part of WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies web site of the Women's Studies Section, American Library Association.
• Women's Studies in Digital Archives provides access to primary source materials for women's studies within digital archives. It is a project of the Women's Studies Section, American Library Association.
• H-Women Discussion List on Women's History maintains a site with syllabi, discussion threads, bibliographies arranged by subject, and more.
• To search for the location of (print) manuscript collections of individual women and the records of women's organizations, visit the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) for the U.S. and National Archives (U.K.) for U.K. sites.
• The U.S. National Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) maintains a page of links to historical websites relevant to women of the United States
• To find electronic versions of books of historical interest by or about women, visit the Celebration of Women Writers site, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, and the Online Books Page, by John Mark Ockerbloom, both mounted by the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library.
• To find digital projects with women-focused content, try searching these databases using the subject heading or keyword "women" in
  • OAIster, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, maintained at the University of Michigan.
  • UNESCO/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections
  • To find women-focused exhibits mounted by libraries and archives, do a search "women" in Exhibitions section of Primary Sources Online directory from the UNESCO.
  • Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web, from the Smithsonian Libraries

Oral History Within the United States

• ActUp (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) Oral History Project includes transcripts of interviews with men and women who participated in the movement.
• Black Women at Virginia Tech includes transcriptions along with audio excerpts of interviews with the first Black women students, staff, and faculty at the University.
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes interviews with Fanny Lou Hamer, Sandra Adickes, and other women and men in Mississippi. Site includes transcripts and some audio clips.
• Ethnic Women in Cleveland oral histories are being digitized by Cleveland State University Library. Thus far the Helen Bernice Karpinski interview is on the site (transcript and audio clips).
• Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, consisted of 59 completed interviews (transcripts on the site) as of January, 2009.
• Women Workers in Hawaii's Pineapple Industry, Center for Oral History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Site includes textual and audio excerpts. The Women and Work in Hawaii exhibit also draws from oral histories.
• Iowa Women Artists Project site includes some 7quot;artists statements." Collection is housed in the Iowa Women's Archives.
• Women in Journalism project of the Washington Press Club Foundation includes interviews with Ellen Goodman, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Flora Lewis, and many others. Most of the interviews are available online; the rest are available in print at various universities.
• Women in the Legislature (in Georgia) is part of the Georgia Government Documentation Project, Georgia State University.
• Minnesota Women & Work Oral History Project "seeks to document, explore, and interpret the historical roots of women's participation in both waged and unwaged work spheres."
• Archives of Women in Science and Engineering Oral History Collection, Iowa State University contains excerpts from transcripts.A related oral history project focuses on women in chemistry.
• American Slave Narratives provides photographs and excerpts of selected interviews with former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. Seven of the ten interviewees featured on the site are women.
• Suffragists Oral History Project, was conducted by the Univ. of California at Berkeley's Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office in the early 1970s. Seven interviews with prominent women are on the site, including Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Jeannette Rankin, Mabel Vernon, and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, plus oral histories of five rank-and-file suffragists.
• Women and Timber: The Pacific Northwest Logging Community, 1920-1998 is a project of the Center for Columbia River History.
• Maine Women Veterans Project, University of Maine, includes excerpts.
• Unarmed and Under Fire: an Oral History of Female Vietnam Vets is an interview article by Austin Bunn in Salon.
• Women Airforce Service Pilots ("WASPS") project is at Texas Women's University.
• "What Did You Do In the War, Grandma?" project of Rhode Island women's experiences during World War II, conducted by ninth grade students at South Kingston High School in 1995; see also the interviews with women conducted by the 1998 class for the project "The Whole World Was Watching: an Oral History of 1968."
• Many oral history projects interviewed both men and women and can be browsed by name to find the women. Examples include the Civil Rights Documentation Project in Missisippi, Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Social Security Administration Oral Histories, The Whole World Was Watching: an Oral History of 1968 (Rhode Island). Some exemplary projects are linked from the History Matters site. The Labor Oral History Project at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL. digitized several transcripts of interviews with women and men of the labor movement. The Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University, has an extensive list of oral history collections of men and women in the labor movement.
• Many libraries, archives, and other departments have oral history collections with guides, inventories, or collection level descriptions online. Some of those specificlly on women are: Activist Women's Voices: Linking Communities and the University (Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY) Alaska Women's Oral History Project (University of Alaska, Anchorage), Norfolk Women's Oral History Project, (Old Dominion University) A Few Good Women" (Pennsylvania State). the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives at New York University has numerous oral history collections, including Women Hospital Workers and Gender Relations and the Building Trades.

Other History Within the United States

• "How Did Abolitionism Lead to the Struggle for Women's Rights?" is a module in the American History segment of the Digital History Reader, University of Vermont.
• African American Women Online Archival Collection from Duke University Special Collections Library
• African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Digital Schomberg Collection).
• Agents of Social Change lesson plans and primary documents from eight collections in the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College: the papers of Constance Baker Motley, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary Kaufman, Frances Fox Piven, Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, and Gloria Steinem and the records of the Women's Action Alliance and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
• The American Experience series on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) site has transcripts and related material from programs aired, including A Midwife's Tale about 18th cent. midwife Martha Ballard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fly Girls, about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), Around the World in 72 Days (about Nellie Bly), Hawaii's Last Queen, the life of Lili'uokalani, and more. Use search feature.
• All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume books from the University of Wisconsin-Madison collections from the first half of the 20th century.
• The American Memory Historical Collections Project of the Library of Congress has among its offerings numerous full-text documents on American women's lives. There are many separate collections in the Project. Some entirely on women are
  • Women Pioneers, a "feature presentation," brings together items from throughout American Memory
  • "Making Do: Women and Work" collection with excerpts from interviews with three women found in the Voices From the Thirties, American Life Histories: Manuscripts From the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 Collection
  • "Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921"
  • "Votes for Women" accompanying pictorial exhibit
  • "Women's History, an online display," offers examples of women's letters and other documents in the Manuscripts Division

The entire America Memory project and each collection is searchable, and searching for the keyword "women" or browsing a collection's subject index for "women" turns up many more items, especially in such collections as

• "African American Perspectives" pamphlets
• "California's Early Years," first person narratives by women participants
• "The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920," which includes "women in conservation" as a subject heading
• "American Ballroom Companion," more than 200 dance manuals includes social commentary, etiquette, etc.
• "America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information, 1935-1945," over 200 shots of women at work in munitions factories and on the farm
• Portraits of Presidents and First Ladies
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 +
• Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996
  (Most of the quiltmakers are women.) See also America's Quilting History.
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
• Beauty and Hygiene advertisements from the 1920s through 1950s section of the Ad*Access Project database of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
• California Digital Library includes finding aids and other material for more than 30 collections housed by University of California Libraries of papers from individual women, including director Dorothy Arzner and children's book author Lois Lenski, and organizations. See also the California Heritage Collection of images.
• Chicago Women's Liberation Union's herstory project site includes text, audio and video memoirs, articles, documents, pictures, and more.
• Civil War Women sources on the Internet, by Ginny Daley.
• University of Virginia Special Collections has many online exhibits, including Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War and Breaking and Making Tradition: Women at the University of Virginia
• Advertising Cookbooks from the Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920 exhibit of the John W. Hartman Center, Rare
  Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
• Women's Studies electronic texts from University of Pennsylvania's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image includes several 19th and 20th century diaries, as well as cookbooks, and other texts.
• Women in American History from Encyclopaedia Britannica includes articles, timelines, photographs, study guide, and weekly quiz.
• The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993, online version of a 1993 book by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, and June Bundy Csida.
• Five College Archives Digital Access Project (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Univ. of Massachusetts) focuses on the history of women's education at those institutions. Included are oral histories, papers from student organizations, personal papers of women faculty members, and more.
• Florida State Archives Photographic Collection contains about 850,000 images of people, places, and activities in Florida from the late nineteenth century to the present. The images are fully cataloged. Searches are therefore possible for subjects including "women legislators," "women physicians," "nurses," "Afro-American women," "aged women," "Cuban American women," "Jewish women," "Seminole women," and using the fulltext search option for combinations, such as "women" and "statues" or "women" and "schools."
• Jo Freeman is a feminist scholar with her own website, which includes numerous articles she has written, plus photographs and buttons from feminist and other activist causes in which she's taken part.
• Godey's Lady's Book online reproduction of issues from a 19th century popular women's magazine, mounted by Roger Corrie, and selections and commentary, by Hope Greenberg.
• Emma Goldman Papers site includes guides to the papers, pictures, a bibliography, a chronology, and an essay about Goldman.
• Honoring Mildred Fish Harnack: From Wisconsin Born and Educated to Resistance Fighter During World War II With the Red Orchestra Movement (a virtual exhibit with primary sources).
• Harvard University Library's Visual Information Access System is a searchable catalog of images in the Harvard collections, including many in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Some results are solely the description of images, others include thumbnail images, and still others allow the thumbnails to be expanded into larger size.
• Women and Work in Hawaii: Into the Marketplace is a multimedia exhibit by the Women's Studies Program, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa.
• The Women's Rights National Historic Park and the National Collaborative of Women's History Sites website are sponsored by the U.S. National Parks Service. The Collaborative site links to historic sites: Susan B. Anthony House, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, the Matilda Joslyn Gage website, Alice Paul's birthplace, Paulsdale, and the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. Other National Park Service websites: Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, and Places Where Women Made History, which visits sites in New York and Massachusetts. See also the Sewall-Belmont House (headquarters of the National Woman's Party).
• History's Women online magazine, "written from a Christian worldview," emphasizes women who have made signficant contributions to society.
• Hearth: Home Economics Archive, Cornell University, includes digitized versions of numerous books and journals.
• The Making of a Homemaker, exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Library of advice books for Victorian homemakers.
• Homemaking books for girls have been digitized in the University of Wisconsin Libraries Digital Collection as "Playing House: Homemaking for Children."
• "The Literature on Women Immigrants to the United States," by Dorothea Schneider, in Actes de l'histoire de l'immigration v. 3 (March 2003).
• Ada James papers finding aid and selected items digitized by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.
• Jewish Women's Archive includes exhibits on Bella Abzug, Rebecca Gratz, Emma Lazarus, Barbara Myerhoff, Molly Picon, Justine Wise Polier, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Hannah G. Solomon, Lillian Wald and others. One exhibit documents the role of Jewish women in the feminist revolution, and the most recent exhibit is Katrina's Jewish Voices.
• Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard.
• Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest exhibit created by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and the Minnesota Historical Society.
• Household Words: Women Write From and For the Kitchen is an online exhibit of from the Van Pelt Lib., Univ. of Pennsylvania.
• Women's Labor History links from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
• The Ladies Repository, 1841-1876, has been digitized as part of the Univ. of Michigan Making of America Project.
• Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York, NY.
• Lesbian History Project site maintained by Yolanda Retter.
• Lifetime television network offers background material on several women that can be used for celebrations of women's history month. Use the search mechanism and search for "women's history," or use the Intimate Portrait index.
• Women's Literary Salons Archive, 1975-1985, New York, Cerridwen, Paris, Los Angeles; Ephemera from the Collection of Professor Gloria Orenstein, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California. Documents a feminist forum for intellectual discussion and for the presentation of feminist writings from the time period.
• Making of America Project at the University of Michigan includes searchable digitized versions of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Marriage, Women, and the Law: A Digital Collection, is a demonstration project by the Research Libraries Group focusing on family law and domestic relations in the 19th century, primarily in the U.S., with some material on the U.K. To access, click on the CONNECT button. Contributing libraries and the focus of their contributions: New York Public Lib, (social conventions and status of women), New York Univ. Law Lib, (Comstock laws material), Harvard Univ. Law Lib. (accounts of trials), North Carolina State Archives (marriage in the South), U. of Pennsylvania Law Lib. (anti-miscegenation documents), Library Company of Philadelphia (miscegenation), Princeton University Libraries (polygamy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and Univ. of Leeds (British sources).
• MidWest Women's History Resources on the World Wide Web
• Museums with a historical focus
  • National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY
  • National Museum of Women's History, proposed for Washington, DC, has a web exhibit "Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage."
  • International Museum of Women, under development in San Francisco, CA, has an exhibit on suffrage history in California. The current exhibit is the Motherhood Project.
  • National Cow Girl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, TX
  • Women of the West Museum merged with the Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, in 2002. It has some online exhibits, including "This Shall be the Land for Women," on achieving women's suffrage in the West.
• The National Archives and Records Administration's online catalog includes numerous photographs and other material on women. Use the archival search form; enter a search term, and select the digital copy filter checkbox, listed as "Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies."
• The National Women's Conference held in 1977 in Houston, Texas is the subject of a photo archive by Linda A. Griffith entitled "Ghosts of the Second Wave." See also photographs by Jo Freeman.
• National Women's History Project (U.S.) page includes links to women's history organizations, costumed performers across the U.S. , Women's History Month programs, ideas, and materials, links for student researchers, and online selections from the NWHP catalog of books, posters, videos, etc. available for purchase. Living the Legacy site, sponsored by the NWHP offers an essay and extensive chronology about the Women's Rights Movement and links to activist women's issues organizations.
• Native American Women photographic exhibit, from Denver Public Library.
• Newcomb Archives, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, has several online exhibits, including The Louisiana Women's Movement: An Online Exhibit, Ruth and Rosalie: Friendships and Historical Process (two New Orleans Jewish women), and Newcomb Pottery produced by Newcomb College students.
• North America section of Paul Halsall (Fordham University)'s Internet Women's History Sourcebook has links to numerous documents.
• Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest is an exhibit on the impact of women nutritionists, created by the Archives of Women in Science & Engineering, Special Collections Library, Iowa State University Library.
• "Edited Collections of Primary Sources in United States Women's History," an annotated bibliography by Kathryn Wagnild Fuller and Gayle Veronica Fischer for Journal of Women's History, is no longer online. See vol. 7 (Winter 1995), pp. 206-29, in print.
• "The WWW: A Primary Resource for Women's History", presentation by Phyllis Holman Weisbard at NWSA 2000.
• America's Quilting History includes articles, book reviews, and links on the subjects of women and their quilting from Colonial America to the Great Depression, and more.
• History of the Pregnancy Test Kit: A Thin Blue Line. Online exhibit from t the National Institutes of Health.
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. This is an entire book online published in collaboration by the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University.
• Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library for the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Site includes finding aids for many of the Library's manuscript collections.
• Digital Schomberg Collection of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century includes The Work of the Afro-American Woman, a 1908 work by N.F. Mosell, several biographies and autobiographies, and works of fiction and poetry.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: the Website, consists of projects by undergraduate and graduate students at SUNY Binghamton, directed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Each project poses a question and has 15-20 primary documents that address the question. Topics range from African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, 1893, to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Right-Wing Attacks, 1923-1931.
• Documenting the American South project at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill includes full-text diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and narratives on slavery. There are many women authors in each category, as well as works about women, including Women of Achievement, by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919), about Harriet Tubman, Nora Gordon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Mary McLeod Bethune and Mary Church Terrell.
• Online Manuscript Resources in Southern Women's History is a collection of digitized manuscript, printed, and visual materials drawn from the collections at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) in the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Site includes teaching moments," which are "meant as suggestions and starting points for the integration of archival materials in the classroom."
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment is a project of the National Archives and Records Administration.
• Women's Suffrage history links from the Susan B. Anthony University Center at the University of Rochester, and brief biographies of suffragists.
• Women's Travel Writing 1830-1930, digitization project at the University of Minnesota includes American and European women who travelled to many parts of the world.
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 mostly young women on March 25, 1911. The site was compiled by the Kheel Center for Labor-Managment Documentation and Archives, Cornell University.
• Willard, Frances E. Occupations for Women: A Book of Practical Suggestions for the Material Advancement, the Mental and Physical Development, and the Moral and Spiritual Uplift of Women (1897). [Digitized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
• Women at the University of Wisconsin: Resources for Research
• Women in America: 1820-1842 project at the University of Virginia features comments about women encountered in America by eighteen travelers from abroad (Ireland, Germany, Scotland, England, and France).
• Gender in the West: A Bibliography, by Catherine J. Lavender, U. of Colorado-Boulder (on the American West).
• The Wisconsin Electronic Reader Project includes "How Wisconsin Women Won the Ballot," by Theodora Youmans (1921 article) and "Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women," by Florence Dexheimer (1924).
• Wisconsin Women's History bibliography
• Witchcraft Accusations and Trials in Salem, Massachusetts sites
  • Salem Witches site from National Geographic Magazine
  • What About Witches, from the city of Salem
  • Salem Witch Trials site was created by the Danvers Archival Center, Danvers, Mass., with the support of the Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.
• Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement, from Duke includes Notes From the First Year (1968).
• Women's Movement in the Netherlands: digitized poster collection, 1898-2000, housed at the International Archives of the Women's Movement (IIAV), Amsterdam (search and descriptions are in Dutch only -- )
• Women Veterans Historical Collection is at University of North Carolina Greensboro. The collection documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I.
• A Woman's Work is Never Done exhibit of images from the American Antiquarian Society's collection. Time period: Colonial times through the industrial revolution.
• Women Working, 1870-1930, is a massive digital project of the Harvard University Libraries (HUL). This is the first topic to be tackled by the HUL Open Collections Program and will serve as a prototype for other subjects. Women Working will eventually provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums. As of May, 2004, 458 documents and manuscripts had been digitized, with images scheduled to be added later in the Spring.

Midwest-Specific Women's History Within the United States

• WISCONSIN
  • Archives Catalog (ArCat) and Wisconsin Women's History documents and images from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
  • The Wisconsin Electronic Reader Project includes "How Wisconsin Women Won the Ballot," by Theodora Youmans (1921 article) and "Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women," by Florence Dexheimer (1924).
  • Wisconsin Women's History bibliography
  • Women's History in Wisconsin page links to fulltext primary sources mounted by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
  • Women's History Collections in the Milwaukee Urban Archives
    Alphabetical descriptions of collections with links to existing finding aids.
  • Wisconsin Veterans Museum had a cyber exhibit on the Women's Army [Auxiliary] Corps. Though not specifically on Wisconsin women, it did include photographs of Midwestern WAACs.
  • WPA Dolls of Milwaukee were made by women workers.
  • ILLINOIS
    • Early Illinois Women exhibit from the Alliance Library System includes articles, pictures, and documents.
    • Chicago Women's History , from the Chicago Public Library
    • Jane Addams and Hull-House Museum page from University of Illinois at Chicago
  • IOWA
    • Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Iowa State University.
    • Helen D. Gunderson photographic exhibit, "The Road I Grew Up On," on life in rural Iowa.
      From the Iowa State University Archives
    • Iowa Women's Archives site lists collections by subject, topic, and alphabetically.
    • Virtual exhibits from the Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa, and list of IWA's other holdings
    • MICHIGAN
      • Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame, Lansing, MI
      • Chronology of Michigan Women's History.
      • Women's History: Michigan Historical Collections Subject Guide, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
      • Women's History Project of Northwest Michigan
    • MINNESOTA
      • Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest exhibit created by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and the Minnesota Historical Society.
      • Women Suffrage (and Minnesota), Minnesota Historical Society research guide.
    • MISSOURI
      • Guide to Women's Collections in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri
      • National Women and Media Collection, University of Missouri School of Journalism and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection
    • OHIO
      • Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
      • Women's Studies Manuscript Collections, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Women's History Outside of the United States

• To find electronic versions of books of historical interest by or about women, visit the Celebration of Women Writers site, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, and the Online Books Page, by John Mark Ockerbloom, both mounted by the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library.
• Women of Achievement archive of site that began as a weekly electronic newsletter Women of Achievement and Herstory, written by Irene Stuber, featuring historical vignettes,anniversaries, and quotations.
• Women of the Arthurian Legend (student project, University of Rochester)
• Bibliography on Women in Byzantium, by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, 1996.
• Canadian Women's History from Parks Canada.
• Celebrating Women's Achievements is a series of annual exhibits by the National Library of Canada during Women's History Month honoring the contributions of Canadian women in developing Canada. Featured thus far: activists, librarians, legislators, women in the arts, and women in the book trade.
• Haus der Frauengeschichte: Fifty-Five Years of German history from the perspective of women (in German), includes biographies of 22 activists, politicians, and artists in psot-1945 Germany, East and West. Site also describes (in English) the EU Projekt: Making Women's History Visible in Europe.
• History in Deed: Medieval Society & the Law in England, 1100-1600, Harvard Law School project, includes a section on women's deeds (property).
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  Course descriptions, articles, book reviews, images, and bibliography. Future plans include an anthology of translated passages.
• Early Modern Women Database is a multi-lingual gateway to primary documents, bibliographies, and more, for the time period 1500-1800.
• Emancipation of Women 1750-1920, mounted by John Simkin of Spartacus Educational Publishing Company, includes biographies, texts, and visuals on the suffrage campaign in Britain. Use the many links on the site.
• Florence Nightingale
  • Florence Nightingale Museum, London, Eng.
  • Florence Nightingale Page
    Selection of Florence Nightingale's letters held by the Clendening Medical Library, University of Kansas Medical Center. Images and transcriptions of the letters.
  • Hear Nightingale's voice in the Sound Samples from the Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University.
• Feminist Foremothers 1400-1800, site compiled by Sunshine for Women, contains electronic versions of early feminist writings.
• Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-2000 (U.K.) exhibit from the Imperial War College includes excerpts from interviews with participants.
• H-Frauen-L is a discussion list about women and gender in early modern Europe.
• The Historical Text Archive's Women section (links to primary and secondary sources).
• Irish women's history research is helped by the Directory of Sources for Women's History in Ireland, information and descriptions of over 14,000 collections and sources in 262 repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
• Women's history associations list from H-Net H-Women List.
• Women's History Network (U.K.) site describes the activities and publications of the organization.
• Women's History articles and links on the Mining Co. site, formerly maintained by Belinda Ray, have been restructured. The page is now affiliated with The History Net and is maintained by Jone Johnson Lewis.
• Women Immigrants, 1945 to the Present , by Eleanore O. Hofstetter, supplements and updates her book Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001).
• The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society published in London, England, offered fashion and politics. The site includes the full-text of the premier issue (1872) and a fashion sampler, and more.
• People With a History: an Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History, compiled by Paul Halsall, is divided by period and region. It includes articles, bibliographies, and links to archives, museums, and other sites.
• Women's Library (formerly the Fawcett Library) is the National Library of Women in the U.K.
• Liturgy and Medieval Women page, by Frank Henderson.
• Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly Medieval Feminist Newsletter) is sponsored by the Society for Feminist Scholarship, University of Oregon.
• Feminae: Medieval Feminist Index, a project coordinated Margaret Schaus, Magill Library, Haverford College, covering journal articles, books reviews, and essays in anthologies about women, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages
• Review of websites on medieval women, by Cynthia Ho, from Feminist Collections.
• Medieval Women: Tradition and Counter-tradition course by Deborah Everhart at Georgetown University
• Monastic Matrix is a collection of resources for the study of women's religious communities, 500-1500 CE. Site mounted by Yale Divinity School.
• Shadow Story of the Millenium: Women from The New York Times Magazine Millennium series.
• "Should Women Vote?" is a suffrage module in the European History segment of the Digital History Reader, University of Vermont.
• Suffrage Banners Collection, Women's Library, London Guidhall University (images of banners documenting British women's suffrage movement.) Searching the collection requires registration.
• Suffrage Chronology from the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook, compiled by Paul Halsall, Fordham University, is a subject-arranged guide with links to full-text documents.
• A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860 in the John Johnson Collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, includes a section of images of women in trade.
• Victorian Web: Gender Matters section
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History, maintained at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, indexes over 60 European and American historical and women's studies journals
• Witchcraft Bibliography Project is a multilingual bibliography about witchcraft in early modern Europe and in America.
• Women in World History Curriculum project directed by Lyn Reese. Contains resources for middle school and high school, with sections on female hero of the month, lesson of the month, historical quotes, and more.