Women's History
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  Exhibitions
  1. The Diary of a Confederate Woman
  2. A Colored Women in a White World: Mary Church Terrell
  3. The Woman's Bible
  4. Women's Trade Union Seal
  5. Women's War Relief
  6. Women and the War Effort
  7. Petal From the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
  8. American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
  9. Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
  10. The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
  11. Blondie Gets Married
  12. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
  13. Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters During WWII
  14. Canadian Counterpoint: Illustrations by Anita Kunz
  15. Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
 
     
     
  American Memory Collections
  1. Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage
  2. Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
  3. Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
  4. Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
  5. By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
  6. Hannah Arendt Papers
  7. The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, 1925-1944
  8. Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
  9. The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
  10. Women Pioneers of the Northern Great Plains
 
     
     
  America's Library
  1. Phyllis Wheatley
  2. Pocahontas
  3. Mary Kies
  4. Julia Archibald Holmes
  5. Fannie Farmer
  6. Harriet Tubman
  7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  8. Jane Addams
  9. Elizabeth Blackwell
  10. Grace Abbot
  11. Nellie Bly
  12. Laura Ingalls Wilder
  13. Mahalia Jackson
  14. Kathy Whitworth
  15. Amelia Earhart
  16. Dorothea Lange
  17. Althea Gibson
 
     
     
  Web Guides & Profiles
  1. Sojourner Truth
  2. Harriet Tubman
  3. Rosa Parks
  4. Susan B. Anthony
  5. Elizabeth Shippen Green
  6. Carol M. Highsmith
  7. Sandra Day O'Connor
  8. Sonia Sotomayor
 
     
     
  Images
  1. Pictorial Americana: Women's Rights - Selected Images
  2. Photographs of Women During the Civil War - Selected Images
  3. Esther Bubley's Photographs
  4. Carol M. Highsmith Archive
  5. First Ladies of the United States - Selected Images
  6. Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview
  7. Rosie Pictures: American Women Workers During World War II - Selected Images
  8. Suffrage Images
  9. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
  1. Women at War
  2. Women of Four Wars
  3. The WASP: First in Flight
  4. Women Serving in Combat: A Panel Discussion
 
     
     
  Music & Dance
  1. Dolly Parton & the Roots of Country Music
  2. Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection
  3. Selections from the Martha Graham Collection
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans
  1. Ladies, Contraband, and Spies
  2. Women Struggle and Triumph
  3. Stand Up and Sing
  4. Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies
  5. Suffragists and Their Tactics
  6. Primary Source Investigation: Suffrage
  7. Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Else
  8. Who's That Lady?
  9. Collection Connections: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
  10. Collection Connections: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
  11. Collection Connections: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
  12. Collection Connections: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
 
     
     
  Special Presentations
  1. Timeline: Traveling on the Overland Trails (1843-1860)
  2. Timeline: Women in the Union Armies
  3. Timeline: Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
  4. Timelinea: One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
  5. Timeline: Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era
  6. Women Pioneers
  7. Pages from Her Story
 
     
     
  Webcasts (streaming RealVideo®)
  1. Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
  2. Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
  3. Women's History Month Celebration: Women's Art -- Women's Vision
  4. Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII
  5. Women Who Dare
  6. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
  7. Catch the Suffragists' Spirit: The Millers' Suffrage Scrapbooks
  8. Frances Perkins, the Woman Behind FDR
  9. Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger & Jane Addams
  10. Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
  11. Women in Science and Engineering
  12. Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet
  13. Legislating in Heels--An Anecdotal Journal: The Honorable Constance Connie Morella
  14. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances
  15. A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
  16. Using Fair Trade Principles to Empower Women in Northern Uganda
  17. Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies
  18. Women in Iran: Past, Present and Future
  19. My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
  20. Afghan Women's Stories: the Problematics of Cover
  21. Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation
  22. The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin
  23. Reading Lolita in Tehran: Azar Nafisi
  24. Life Lines: The Literature of Women
  25. Native American Women Writers
  26. Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
  27. Shelia Moses: Poet, Author, Playwright
  28. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Cokie Roberts
  29. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Andrea Mitchell
  30. Journalist & Author: Maria Celeste Arrarás
  31. Journalist & Author: Anna Quindlen
  32. Author: Mary Pope Osborne
  33. Author: Sue Monk Kidd
  34. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
  35. Judy Blume: 2009 National Book Festival
  36. Kirstin Downey: 2009 National Book Festival
  37. Patricia Smith: 2009 National Book Festival
  38. Adele Logan Alexander: 2010 National Book Festival
  39. Isabel Allende: 2010 National Book Festival
  40. Rae Armantrout: 2010 National Book Festival
  41. Ree Drummond: 2010 National Book Festival
  42. Margarita Engle: 2010 National Book Festival
  43. Pat Mora: 2010 National Book Festival
  44. Michele Norris: 2010 National Book Festival
  45. Nell Irvin Painter: 2010 National Book Festival
  46. Rebecca Stead: 2010 National Book Festival
 
     
     
  Congressional Activity
Information and remarks on the celebration of Women's History Month, including tributes to particular persons, can be found by using those keywords to search the Congressional Record and legislation from multiple Congresses.
 
     
     
  < Back to Source Sets  
     
     
  "The first picket line - College day in the picket line." 1917 Feb. National Woman's Party Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a32338
"The first picket line - College day in the picket line line." 1917 Feb. National Woman's Party Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917.
"Penn[sylvania] on the picket line." 1917. National Woman's Party Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane.
"Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait." 1864. By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
"Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children." 1936 Feb or Mar. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. Scene at the polls in Cheyenne.
"Woman suffrage in Wyoming Territory. Scene at the polls in Cheyenne." 1888 Nov. 24 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen.
"Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen." Between 1861 and 1869. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer.
"Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer." 1943 Feb. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Mrs. Bill Clinton, bust portrait.
"Mrs. Bill Clinton, bust portrait." 1992. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  A. Adams / from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.
"A. Adams / from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart." Between 1830 and 1860. By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Amelia Earhart, half-length portrait.
"Amelia Earhart, half-length portrait." c1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Esther Bubley, three-quarter-length portrait.
"Esther Bubley, three-quarter-length portrait." 1944. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
     
  Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre.
"Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre." 1948 Sep. 23. Van Vechten Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		  
     
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