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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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General Resources
This issue launches in March, which is “Women’s
History Month.” For suggestions for activities
during March, go to the National Women’s History
Project site:
http://www.nwhp.org/
In addition, The History Channel has a special feature
listing its March programming on women:
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/
Here’s a Website that I just discovered –
I’m sure that many of you are ahead of me. It’s
“FREE”, Federal Resources for Educational
Excellence, a working group formed in 1997 by 30 Federal
agencies to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching
and learning resources easier to find. New teaching
and learning resources are added each month. For Women’s
History Month, they have an especially valuable page:
http://www.ed.gov/free/w-history.html
Heck – even Census Bureau has a special “Facts
and Figures” page for Women’s History Month:
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03ff03.html
Now I’ll get down to listing some additional
resources that may provide background for this issue.
Books: Surveys and Broader Studies:
Balser, Diane. Sisterhood and Solidarity: Feminism
and Labor in Modern Times. Boston: South End Press,
1987. A lively collection of essays studying women as
activities in American from the 18th century to the
present.
Berkin, Carol Ruth, and Mary Beth Norton. Women
of America: A History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1979.
Cott, Nancy F., ed. No Small Courage: A History
Of Women In The United States. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000. With chapters provided
by several distinguished scholars.
Evans, Sara M. Born For Liberty: A History Of Women
In America. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Collier
Macmillan, 1991.
Flexner, Eleanor. Century Of Struggle: The Woman's
Rights Movement In The United States. Cambridge,
Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1975. This pioneering work is now available in a Belknap
paperback (1996).
Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart. Women's
America: Refocusing The Past. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2003. This is now in its 6th edition (originally
published in 1995) – a rewarding compendium of
essays, source documents, and illustrations.
Lucey, Donna M. I Dwell In Possibility: Women Build
A Nation, 1600-1920. Washington, D.C.: National
Geographic, 2001. A good pictorial work.
Scott, Anne Firor. Natural Allies: Women's Associations
In American History. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, c1991.
_____, and Andrew MacKay Scott. One Half The People:
The Fight For Woman Suffrage. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, c1982.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda
Joslyn Gage. History of Woman Suffrage. 6 vols.
Salem, N.H.: Ayer, 1985. A reprint of the monumental
work begun by Stanton and Anthony, with the first volume
published in 1887. Ida Harper prepared the last two
volumes, which bring the series through events in 1920.
Wald, Carol. Myth America: Picturing Women, 1865-1945.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.
Printed Collections of Documents and Documentary
Histories:
Beer, Janet, Anne-Marie Ford, and Katherine Joslin.
American Feminism: Key Source Documents, 1848-1920.
London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
Cott, Nancy F., ed. Root Of Bitterness : Documents
Of The Social History Of American Women. Boston
: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. American Women Activists'
Writings: An Anthology, 1637-2002. New York: Cooper
Square Press, 2002.
Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth, and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont,
eds. Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness
History. New York: Facts on File, 1992
Keetley, Dawn, and John Pettegrew, eds. Public
Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American
Feminism. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1997-
Langley, Winston E., and Vivian C. Fox. Women's
Rights in the United States: A Documentary History.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. Good source book
of documents and commentaries spanning three centuries.
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Cynthia Russett, and Laurie
Crumpacker. Second to None: A Documentary History
of American Women. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska
Press, 1993
Norton, Mary Beth, and Ruth M. Major Problems in
American Women's History: Documents and Essays. Lexington,
Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1996.
Skinner, Ellen, ed. Women and the National Experience:
Primary Sources in American History. New York:
Longman, 2003.
Woloch, Nancy, comp. Early American Women: A Documentary
History, 1600-1900. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Printed Reference works:
Encyclopedia of Women in American History.
Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002.
Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. The Encyclopedia of Women's
History in
America. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
Hewitt, Nancy A., ed. A Companion to American Women's
History. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Mankiller, Wilma, et al., eds. The Reader's Companion
to U.S. Women's History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1998.
Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical
Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 5 vols. 1971- 2004. This wonderful
series began publication in 1981 with three volumes
edited by Edward and Janet Wilson. Since then, there
have been two supplementary volumes, Notable American
Women : The Modern Period (1980) and Notable American
Women : A Biographical Dictionary Completing The Twentieth
Century (2004. Try to find a library where this is available
– trust me, you won’t believe that something
from your library’s reference shelves can be so
much fun.
Opdycke, Sandra. The Routledge Historical Atlas
of Women in America. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Strom, Sharon Hartman. Women's Rights. Westport,
C.T.: Greenwood Press, 2003. A good guide with historical
introductions, documents, and bibliographies.
Websites:
There’s so much good material on the Web (together
with a lot of junk, as we all know) for the study of
American women that I know I’ll omit some worthy
candidates. My apologies if I leave out any of your
favorites.
You might want to start with the “Woman-related
Websites” for the study of history, part of the
broader Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites,
which is just great:
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_arts.html#hist
Or you can return to our old friend, American Memory
at the Library of Congress Website. “American
Women” is one of the Library of Congress’s
“Gateway” pages leading to collections relating
to various subjects. Includes Webcasts by Library curators
and other scholars:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.php
Be sure to look at “One Hundred Years Toward
Suffrage: An Overview” which looks at efforts
toward suffrage divided into three historical time periods:
1776-1850, 1851-1899, and 1900-1920.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html
And "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920,
contains portraits, cartoons, photographs, and a time
line.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Thomson Gale’s free Women’s History Website
provides useful segments from various Gale reference
tools as well as aids to classroom teaching of the subject:
You’ll find the “biographies” section
especially useful
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/
University of Pennsylvania’s “Celebration
of Women” Website provides an ever-growing collection
of fulltext versions of important women’s writings.
Check out this site – and keep it bookmarked to
see what they add: You can search by specific or generate
lists by period or country. It also contains links to
biographical sketches and texts at other sites:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Houghton Mifflin’s online Reader’s Companion
to U.S. Women’s History will also come in handy:
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/ html/wh_000106_entries.htm
Jone Johnson Lewis’s guide to Women’s History
for about.com is well worth looking at. Be sure to take
a look at all of the links and sub-links – but
be warned that you’ll have to tunnel through pop-up
ads, and you’ll find that many of the links don’t
yet lead to anything::
http://womenshistory.about.com/
Wikipedia has a brief but solid entry on American women’s
history that may be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_the_United_States
PBS’s Website for the Not For Ourselves Alone
series on Stanton and Anthony has links to a wide variety
of sites and sources and educational materials:
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
Lesson Plans you might have missed:
It’s no great surprise that American Memory will
provide rich resources for you. In their “Learning
Pages” section, you may want to scroll through
the page of lesson plans grouped by topic (with indications
of grade level) – there’s material on women’s
history almost everywhere:
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/theme.html
Be sure to look at the list of lesson plans for “The
Court and Gender” at the History of the Supreme
Court Website– some really good ideas there:
http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org/resources/overview.htm
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