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Women's History Database

American Women's History Online is an authoritative reference database containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, primary sources, maps and charts, images and videos, and general and subject-specific timelines encompassing more than 500 years of American women's history. More than 60 historical videos cover such topics as working women, women in politics, and changing women's fashions. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase, or they can browse by topic and by time period—from nine historical periods relevant specifically to women's history.

Government and National Association Resources

Women's History Month

"The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history."

American Women: A Guide to Women's History Resources at the Library of Congress

"The Library's unique and diverse collections are rich with resources for the study of women's history. This research guide gathers together a collection of topical guides and essays that tell the stories of women in America."

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

"In the United States, Women’s History Month provides a time for the individual and collective acknowledgement of women’s contributions, past and present. Thanks to the efforts of historians, activists, and women’s organizations across the country, each March since 1995 has been designated by presidential proclamation as a time to honor, acknowledge, and study women’s accomplishments throughout American history. In this spirit, we offer numerous ways to discover and learn about women in American history."

National Women's History Museum - Women's History Month

Information about the celebration of Women's History Month from the National Women's History Museum.

National Women's History Alliance (NWHA)

"The National Women’s History Alliance (NWHA), formerly the National Women’s History Project, is a leader in promoting women’s history and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion."

Women's History Month: A Commemorative Observances Legal Research Guide

"This guide provides the legislative history, proclamations, and laws related to establishing and designating Women's History Month (March)."

Print Resources

The following titles are available to check out from MCLS.

Search the MCLS catalog for more titles on women's history.

Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the Present by Kristine Ashton Gunnell (Editor)
Call Number: 305.40973 GUN 2024
Publication Date: 2024-02-22
"Issues such as abortion, marriage equality, domestic violence, and gender parity are shown from historical and contemporary angles, as this collection of primary sources allows readers and students to easily trace how women's lives and histories have and continue to intersect. With a historical context for each selection, the book also features structured activities to help teachers with class discussion and exams, including suggestions for further reading, document analysis, essay questions, and manageable research assignments"
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: 305.48 BER 2020
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
"A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country. In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today. A Black Women's History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women's lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women's history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation."
The Women's History of the Modern World by Rosalind Miles
Call Number: 305.42 MIL 2021
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
"Now is the time for a new women's history--for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due--from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement. Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Miles takes us through a colorful pageant of astonishing women, from heads of state like Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles, Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to political rainmakers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, Winnie Mandela, STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rosalind Franklin, Sophia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace, revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Patyegarang, and writer/intellectuals Mary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics--this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made in the modern era. A testimony to how women have persisted--and excelled--this is a smart and stylish popular history for all readers."
Great Events from History: Women's History by Salem Press
Call Number: R 305.4 GRE 2022
Publication Date: 2022-03-30
Includes nearly three hundred essays on all aspects of women s history, presented categorically for ease of navigation. Categories appear alphabetically, from Activism to the Workplace, and within each category, the essays are arranged chronologically to better guide the reader through the rich and varied history of each topic.
The ABCs of Women's History by Rio Cortez; Lauren Semmer (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 305.42 COR 2025
Publication Date: 2025-01-14
In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, writer, poet, and National Book Award nominee, Rio Cortez, and illustrator Lauren Semmer celebrate all the joys, challenges, and historic forward movement of women's history in the United States. This is a book of people, of ideas, of accomplishments and events. It's a book about Artists, Activists and Allies, about Civil Rights and Choice, about Freedom Fighters, Headliners, Justice and Labor. It's about historic moments-Kam
Walk Her Way New York City by Jana Mader; Kaitlyn Allen
Publication Date: 2025-02-04
33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History by Tonya Bolden (Editor)
Call Number: Y 305.4 THI
Publication Date: 2002-02-12