U.S. Women's History Links--Some Starting Points

History of American Women
History 286/Women's Studies 286
Professor Catherine Lavender
Spring 1997

An introduction to Feminist History and Historiography:
A list of great quotes by women.
Feminist History.
Gender and Society: A Matter of Nature or Nurture?
National Women's History Project
Women's Resources on the WWW
Women's History Readings
Women Homepage from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Women's Studies Resources and a bibliography of Women in American History from the University of Omaha.

What other Women's History Courses are Teaching:
Women in American society, 1607-1848 Bibliography.
WGSt--Special Topics 298 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Hi113: Women and the American Experience Syllabus

Colonial Women's History:
Images of the Colonial Family
Witchcraft in Salem
Native American Families

Women in the Early Republic:
Women and Victorian Culture:
Godey's Lady's Book
Family Wage
The Victorian Women Writers Project
A Celebration of Women Writers

Southern Women and Slavery:
Slavery
Valley of the Shadow
Women and the Slave Community

Women and Nineteenth-Century Reform:
Ida B. Wells
Antislavery
Women and Prohibition

Women in Civil War and Reconstruction:
The Civil War and Sex Roles
Sojourner Truth

Women Reformers and Revolutionaries:
Jane Addams
The New Woman
Margaret Sanger
Emma Goldman
The Yellow Wallpaper site, dedicated to the study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novella.
History of Marches and Mass Actions
The Triangle Strike and Fire

Women's Suffrage:
Getting the Vote
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement

Report of the Woman's Rights Convention

History of the Suffrage Movement

Women in the Great Depression:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women in the Great Depression

Women in World War II
Rosie the Riveter
Women in WWII

Women and the Second Wave:
Gloria Steinem
Betty Friedan
National Organization of Women
Feminist/Women's Studies Resources on WWW
Feminist Websites
Feminism and Women's Studies
NOW's History of Marches and Mass Actions

Women and Civil Rights:
Rosa Parks

Women and Nature:
Rachel Carson
Women and Nature
Ecofeminism
A gopher resource concerning ecofeminism.

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Last updated: Monday 14 April 1997