American
Women Peace Envoys in 1915
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/hague/intro.htm
A brief essay on
the International Conference of Women for a Permanent Peace at the Hague in
1915, as well as relevant primary documents. Part of the State University of New
York at Binghamton's online women's history project, the site gives special
attention to the efforts of Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Alice Hamilton.
Documents from
the Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
A collection of
documents giving special emphasis to the women's movement of the late 1960s and
early 1970s. Culled from the Duke University Special Collections Library, the
site includes books, pamphlets, and other written materials. The documents can
be searched by keyword or located under various subject categories. Subject
categories include theoretical writings, women of color, and women's work and
roles.
Marriage, Women,
and the Law, 1815-1914
http://www.rlg.org/scarlet/index.html
A site dedicated to
the state of women, marriage, and the law in the nineteenth century. Compiled as
a resource for scholars and researchers, the site is part of the “Studies in
Scarlet” project and combines the resources of seven major collections of the
Research Libraries Group. The site offers access based on a keyword search to
over 200,000 pages of primary and secondary documents, including case reports,
statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters.
Salem Witchcraft
Trials
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft
Rare and essential
research materials regarding the Salem witchcraft trials. This site, maintained
by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, offers the student
easy access to rare and out of print documents. The page features online
versions of several papers and documents written by figures involved in the
witchcraft trials, animated maps of Salem, archival documents from Essex County
Court Archives, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts Historical Society, and
several other organizations.
Smithsonian
Institution: Native American History and Culture
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm
This site
maintained by the Smithsonian Institution provides links to related sites also
maintained by the Smithsonian. Most useful are extensive lists of suggested
readings on varied topics, such as particular nations, Native American women,
and Native American literature, cuisine, crafts, and architecture.
The Emma
Spaulding Bryant Letters
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/bryant/
A series of letters
from Emma Bryant to her husband John during the summer of 1873. John worked with
the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia that summer, and the letters relate his wife's
activities in Ohio and Illinois while he is away. Housed by Duke University's
Special Collections, the letters shed light on relationships between husbands
and wives at the time, as well as on the problems of Reconstruction.
U.S. Women in
the War
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
An Oral History of
Rhode Island Women during World War II written by students in the honors English
program at South Kingstown High School. This sight contains interviews with
women who experienced the Second World War firsthand. Their accounts of the war
and daily life on the home front paint a vivid picture of women's lives in the
United States during this period.
Votes for Women:
NAWSA, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
An archive of
books, pamphlets, and papers from the National American Women Suffrage
Association from 1848 to 1921. This exhibit from the American Memory Collection
at the Library of Congress contains 167 documents from the NAWSA collection. It
can be searched by subject or author and also contains a detailed timeline.
Votes for Women:
Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
A collection of 38
pictures and portraits from the women's suffrage movement. An American Memory
exhibit from the Library of Congress, the collection can be accessed through a
keyword search or the name and subject index. The collection includes
photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage
display, cartoons commenting on the movement, and portraits of women active in
the movement.
Women Come to
the Front
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
An online exhibit
about women journalists during the Second World War. The exhibit was created by
the Library of Congress and contains narrative about the experiences of women
journalists during the war and in-depth sections about eight of the most
prominent women correspondents, including Toni Frissell, Clare Booth Luce, and
Dorothea Lange. The site contains narratives, photographs of the journalists,
and images of their work.