History Resources

Books of Interest:

Biographies and Memoirs (Click on the title to find location information)

Herstory: Women Who Changed the World

Unbowed

The Norton Book of Women's Lives

Red Azalea

Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

America's Queen: The LIfe Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Race Across Alaska

Open Wide  the Freedom Gates

My Life in France

Mary Todd Lincoln

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Jessie de la Cruz: Profile of a United Farm Worker

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America

Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Link to more titles in the UMD Library in the subject area of Women-United Staes-Biography

Women's Rights Movements (Click on the title to find location information)

Participation and Protest: Women and Politics in a Global World

Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves

From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

The Women's Liberation Movement in America

Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement

Link to more titles in the UMD Library in the subject area of Feminism-United States-History

These are some useful databases to use to find primary and secondary materials or articles on the topics involved in Women's History:

American Women's History Online

Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000

American Experience

Biography in Context

American National Biography

American Women

Civil War Women

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online

Home Economics Archive

Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the US and the UK, 1815-1914

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Women in America, 1820-1842

Women Working, 1800-1930

The Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame