Women's History Month Resources for teachers and students. We are always searching for web sites containing resources for Women's History Month. If you know of any, please send us a note.

Women's Acheivements A Celebration of Women Writers An incredible list of women authors from Jane Addams to Helen Zimmern whose works are available on-line. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/ mmbt/women/writers.html Distinguished Women of Past & Present Biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. The database may be searched by field of activity or by name. http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/ National First Ladies' Library  Includes bibliographies and links to relevant sources on the First Ladies. http://www.firstladies.org/ Florence Nightingale Exhibit Includes digitized images of pages from her letters (and transcriptions). http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn/ Women's History Sites A long and comprehensive list of Internet links from the Distinguished Women of Past and Present website. http://www.netsrq.com/ ~dbois/sites.html Women in American History By the Encyclopaedia Britannica http://women.eb.com Women Nobel Prize Laureates Information on all women who have won the Nobel Prize. http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html Women Mathematicians An excellent web page providing biographies of women in mathematics. Names are given in alphabetical and chronological order. http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle /women/women.html 4000 Years of Women in Science Biographies of over 100 women from our scientific and technical past (before 1900). http://crux.astr.ua.edu//4000ws/4000ws.html Other Women's History Resources Celebrate Women's History Month Gale celebrates Women's History with this section of pages of valuable information, ranging from classroom activities (elementary through high school), biographies of leading women throughout history to hyperlinks to other WWW sites focusing on women. http://www.galegroup.com/ free_resources/whm.htm Department of Labor Women's Bureau Labor statistics, federal regulations, educational resources. http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/ Diotima-Women and Gender in the Classical World A scholarly site which is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary resource for those interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean. Of most interest to high school students and instructors. http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/ Classics/gender.html National Women's History Project Organizer of Women's History Month activities and materials. http://www.nwhp.org/ No Safe Place The companion site to the PBS Series. Includes a teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/nosafeplace/ Women's History Month from Social Studies School Services Includes lesson plans and web links. Great K-12 resource. http://socialstudies.com/mar/women.html Feminist Internet Gateway A good list of other Internet sites from the Feminist Majority website. http://www.feminist.org/gateway /1_gatway.html

Women's Right to Vote History of the Suffrage Movement Includes an excellent timeline from 1792 to today http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html One Woman, One Vote Information about the PBS program of the same name, as well as the following sections: "The History of the Suffrage Movement," "A Brief Timeline of the Women Suffrage Movement," "Discussion Questions for the Classroom," and "Suggested Readings." http://www.pbs.org/onewoman /one_woman.html "Votes for Women" Collection of pictures related to the women's suffrage movement in the Americam Memory project sponsored by the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml /vfwhome.html Woman Suffrage and the 19th Ammendment A National Archives resource including primary documents and lessons. http://www.nara.gov/education /teaching/woman/ Women's Studies Department of Labor Women's Bureau Labor statistics, federal regulations, educational resources. http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/ United Nations WomenWatch An umbrella site for the study of women's issues worldwide. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women A well developed site for high school research on global women's issues. This site monitors women's rights world wide. http://www.undp.org/unifem/ Feminist Internet Gateway A good list of other Internet sites from the Feminist Majority website. http://www.feminist.org/gateway /1_gatway.html Women in America, 1820 to 1842 The experiences of women in the new republic as recorded by eighteen European travelers to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. The writings are organized both chronologically and topically, allowing readers to compare the writing of several authors on a given subject. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC /FEM/home.htm Women in World History Interactive site full of information and resources about women's experiences in world history. Includes Female Heroes, Lessons, Reviews, Current Events, and Words of Wisdom. http://home.earthlink.net/~womenwhist/ Women in the Workforce Quiz An introductory quiz compiled by the Department of Labor to test your knowledge on women's roles in the workforce. Answers are included. http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/quiz.htm Women in the Workplace Articles from the magazine Women's History http://www.thehistorynet.com/general /articleindex/womenshistory.htm Women's Studies Links(Yale) A categorized linking of hundreds of web sites related to women's studies http://www.library.yale.edu/wss/ Women's Studies Resources (University of Maryland, College Park) The database contains collections of conference announcements, calls for papers, and employment opportunities, as well as a picture gallery, and a significant number of government documents, and much more. http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes /Topic/WomensStudies/