General Resources

• The National Women's Hall of Fame contains information about many women of note. The hall includes alphabettical access to the information. The actual hall is located in Seneca Falls, New York.
• Women's History resources collected and selected by About.com
  

Biographical Resources

• Biographies of American woman may be searched using American National Biography
• Biographies of women may be searched using biography.com
• Biographical Dictionary. 28,000 notable men and women
• Biographies of Women in mathematicians

Important Women

• Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke fought and wrote against injustice.Selected writings of the Grimke sisters. Angelina Grimke.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) suffragist and reformer, convened the first women's Rights Convention  in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. (If this page does not load, go to the source the National Women's Hall of Fame and locate the Stanton sisters among the Women of the Hall.)
• Susan B. Anthony from the National Women's Hall of Fame. Account of the trial of Susan B. Anthony on charge of illegal voting digitized by the Library of Congress. Other writing by and about Ms. Anthony are available as part of American Memory collections.
• Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Quaker anti-slavery advocate, who, after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton, became a leader in the women's right's movement. The Proceedings of the Women's Rights Convention in June of 1852, led by Lucretia Mott, digitized by the Library of Congress. Other writing by and about Ms. Mott are available as part of American Memory collections.
• Victoria Woodhull, editor, reformer, and American Presidential candidate.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) a biography from Gale resources. The paper, the Feminization of Education,  discusses Gilman as a philosopher, writer, educator and activist who demanded equal treatment for women as a means to advance society.
• Beah Richards Obituary from online Guardian newspaper of Great Britain.
• Anne Moody (1940- ), one of the writers in the Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project. Information gathered by students at Starksville (Mississippi) High School as part of a project on Mississippi Writers.
• Bette Friedan from the National women's Hall of Fame. Essay about Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique from Fathom Knowledge Network
• Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, serving two separate terms. Biography of Rankin from biography.com.
• Emma Goldman (1869-1940)  Papers located at University of California, Berkeley. Goldman was "...a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, union organization, and the eight-hour work day." Speeches by Goldman and other writings and essays about her from the Emma Goldman Paper collection of UCB. Biography, collected works, and commentary on Emma Goldman from the Anarchy Archives of Pitzer. More information and links about Goldman from About.com. For another Emma Goldman biography search in American National Biography.
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song. Exhibit of life of African-American opera singer. Includes Audio and Video excerpts.
• Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) nurse and social reformer. Biography of Sanger from American National Biography.  Biography of Sanger from biography.com
• Search for other Americans using the American National Biography database. Requires Urban First Class login.

Artists and Architects

• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) artist and perhaps the best-known American woman painter. Search the American National Biography for a biography of O'Keeffe. Biography of O'Keeffe from biography.com.
• Julia Morgan. Biography can be found in American National Biography
• Mary Jane Colter early 1900s architect and designer of many buildings in Grand Canyon, Arizona

Authors

• Zora Neal Hurston  (1891-1960) novelist, anthropologist and folklorist who contributed greatly to the preservation of African-American folk traditions and to American literature. Search for biography of Hurston in American National Biography. Another biography of Hurston can be found in biography.com
• National Women's Hall of Fame Presents a link to an alphabetical list of biographies and other information about American women of note.

Important Documents and Primary sources

• Woman suffrage and the 19th Amendment from the National Archives.
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 from the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress.
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Woman Suffrage ~ Photographs and Prints ~ 1850-1920
• Victorian Women Writers Project of Indiana University which presents transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
• Women's History Source Book (part of the History Sourcebooks, collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts from Fordham University, edited by Professor Paul Halsall.
• Gifts of Speech: Women's speeches from around the world collected and made searchable by Sweet Briar College
• Women in the Military National Women's History Month salute to women in the military.
• Not for Ourselves Alone from PBS: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Biographical Resources

• Biographical Dictionary. 28,000 notable men and women
• Biography.com source for locating many biographies of women and men
• American National Biography: a subscription database containing many biographies. Requires Urban FirstClass login.
• Biography Resource Center from Gale: Requires Urban FirstClass login.
• Biographies of Women in mathematicians

Museums

• Art: National Museum of Women in the Arts

Misc. Resources

• Not for Ourselves Alone. Interview with Ken Burns on the making of the film.

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Created by Carolyn Karis 28 January 2000
Last update 25 January 2007..