Additional Resources for Women’s History

Web Sites

Biography.com
The biography.com site has a special section featuring a variety of interesting material related to women’s history, including an interactive quiz and timeline, photos and movie clips. There is also a comprehensive list of biographies on notable women in history.

History.com
This site also has a special section with some interesting information and video suggestions.

National Women’s History Museum
This site has current information related to the museum as well as a “cybermuseum” which includes notable women, events and activities in American history, sports, the arts and sciences.

Library of Congress
This site has many options for exploring all aspects of women’s history, as does a sister site, www.womenshistorymonth.gov.

AFL-CIO
The section “Working Women” under the Human, Civil and Women’s Rights subheading has information on current women’s issues.

The following web sites also have information related to women’s history:

• National Organization for Women
   

• Coalition of Labor Union Women
   

• African-American Women Online Archival Collection –Duke University
   

• Women in America, 1820-1842

• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet

• Living the Legacy: the Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998

• The Emma Goldman Papers and Site

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

• What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

• American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!

• Women Inventors
   

• Good Work, Sister
  

Noteworthy films and documentaries related to women’s history (available from Netflix):

• “Iron Jawed Angels”

• “One Woman One Vote”

• “Not For Ourselves Alone,” documentary on the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

• “Women’s Achievements in History” (documentary series)

• “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed,” on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

• “Fly Girls,” on women pioneers in aviation

• “Nellie Bly: Around the World in 72 Days,” on pioneering woman journalist

• “The Long Walk Home”

• “Ida Wells Barnett,” documentary: journalist, civil rights leader, black suffragette

Books 

• “100 Women Who Shaped the World”
  By Gail Meyers Rolka

• “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History”
  By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• “The Feminine Mystique”
  By Betty Friedan

• “The Second Stage”
  By Betty Friedan

• “When Everything Changed”
  By Gail Collins

• “American Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines”
  By Gail Collins

• “The Founding Mothers”
  By Cokie Roberts

• “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”
  By Gloria Steinem

• “Sisterhood of Faith: 365 Stories of Women Who Made a Difference”
  By Shirley Brosius
   

• “No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States”
  By Nancy Cott