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

History of American Women
History 386/Women's Studies 386
Professor Catherine Lavender
Fall 1998

Links Inspired by In-Class Discussions:
On Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
E-Text of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
On Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915)
E-Text of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915)
John McClymer's The Triangle Strike and Fire site.
Godey's Lady's Book

Links From Class Members:
New York City Women Composers
New York Women in Film and Television
Reel Women
National Women's History Project's Links
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Mining Company's Women's Issues Links
Mining Company's Women's History Links
Women's History in America
U. Maryland Women's Studies Database
A History of the American Suffragist Movement
Suffrage Site
IWW's Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will
National Women's Hall of Fame
Women in Higher Education
National Women's History Month at Fort Lewis College
Women In History
Alexander Mack Memorial Library's Women's History
Women's History Review
Women in History
Women in Texas History

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.

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

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

Women Reformers and Revolutionaries:
The New Woman
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
The Triangle Shirtwaist Building

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:
Women in the Great Depression

Women in World War II
Rosie the Riveter
Women in WWII


Last updated: Tuesday 11 November 1998