Sociology: Women's History

The league was the brainchild and social experiment of Philip K. Wrigley, the chewing-gum mogul who had inherited the Chicago Cubs major league baseball franchise from his father. In 1943 American men were serving in the armed forces during the Second World War, and it was then Wrigley developed the idea of women playing professional baseball which eventually grew into the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Many links. From Duke University.

A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. Several deal with slavery.

Sponsored by the Feminist Majority Foundation. Links to feminist journals, current events, breast cancer information, history and education links, and career information.

Biographies and photographs and a bibliography.

From the site: "Housed at the University of Vermont, this version of the Book seeks to add depth and scholarly content to the World Wide Web by bringing the richness, variety, and wonder of Godey's Lady's Book to the global audience. While the color fashion plates are the most widely recognizable portions of this 19th century magazine, it also included a wealth of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as practical advice articles.

Part of the H-NET Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine initiative. H-WOMEN encourages scholarly discussion to communicate current research/teaching interests, to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis, to test new ideas and to share comments on current historiography in the field of women's history. Has information on bibliographies, course syllabi and dissertations, exhibition announcements and manuscripts and archives, as well as links to internet sites of interest to H-WOMEN.

Includes an introductory article, "Women Who Made History, and individual biographies of women who have made important achievements in air and space.

Developed by the History Department at NYU, this site has biographical information and links to primary and secondary sources concerning Sanger and reproductive rights.

The National Museum of Women's History in Washington, DC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating the historic contributions and the rich, diverse heritage of women, and restoring this heritage to mainstream culture. NMWH will focus on the history of women in the Americas in the context of world history.

A clearinghouse providing information on multicultural women's history.

This is a good place to start your search when looking through the Library of Congress for materials concerning Women's History. There is a guide to help you find relevant materials in the different collections.

The IAWA was established in 1985 as a joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Purpose: to document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners.

A somewhat scholarly historical study by Judith A. Bellafaire. Illustrated. Sponsored by the Center for Military History of the U.S. Army. No footnotes, but does include a brief bibliography.

From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this site offers selections from the National American Women's Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.

Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory collections. Consists of the texts of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. Includes writings by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Lulia Ward Howe, etc. The following site is a companion to this one.

Selection of thirty-eight pictures from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Includes portraits of individuals, photos of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement. A pictorial accompaniment for the text documents in "'Votes for Women': Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920."

Presented by History.net. Short biographies of many women leaders throughout the world and additional links concerning them. There is a Today in History link which includes birthdays of notable women plus quotations by more than 250 different women, a collection of primary documents, and information about Women's History Month.

This collection maintained by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School documents women in American business and culture from the 18th through 20th century. While not comprehensive, this site does include a number of primary sources concerning women's roles in American business.

A project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The site includes45 "mini-monographs" that interpret some of the 1050 documents that can be found on this site. There are also more than 400 images and links to other websites.

"'It is considered very indelicate for ladies and gentlemen to sit down together on the grass,' was the response given to Frances Trollope in Cincinnati in 1829 when she proposed a picnic party to a female friend. This is just one example of the experience of women in the new republic as recorded by eighteen European travelers to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century, now brought together by the American Studies Group of the University of Virginia.

Articles on participation of women in the wars of American history, from the Revolution to the present. Non-scholarly in approach.