This research guide has been developed by your instructor and librarian to help you complete your final project. Your assignment: Students may write a report of 4-7 pages of actual body on the papers on a significant American woman.  The goal of this project is to teach the students how to find scholarly primary source history material on the Internet. This is an Internet search project. The report must contain citation of Internet sources within the body of the paper.

Reference Sources

Almanac of Famous People - A Comprehensive Reference Guide to More than 25,000 Famous and Infamous Newsmakers from Biblical Times to the Present

• Reference source is a bibliography of articles or other reference sources
• Volume 3 contains chronological, geographic and occupation indexes
  useful for selecting a person
• Ref CT 214 G74 1987 volumes 1 to 5

Great Lives from History - American Series

• Gives 5 to 6 page article on individual
• Each article contains ‘Early Life’, ‘Life’s Work’, ‘Summary’ and ‘Bibliography’ on the person   Bibliography is very useful in finding books and essays
• Ref CT 3202 C66 1989

The Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography

• Gives brief articles
• Some articles have abbreviated bibliographies
• "Subject Index by Categories" in the back of the book is useful for selecting a person
• Ref CT 3260 N57 volumes 1 to 3

Notable American Women 1607 to 1950

• Give 1 to 2 page article on individuals
• Each article has a bibliography to other sources
• ‘Classified List of Selected Biographies’ in the back of the book
• Ref E 185.86 B542 volumes 1 & 2

Black Women in America - A Historical Encyclopedia

• All articles give a picture of the individual
• All articles have useful bibliography
• ‘Black Women in the United States: A Chronology’ (p.1309) and
• ‘Classified List of Biographical Entries’ (p.1353) in the back of volume 2 is useful for selecting a person
• Index to both volumes also in the back of volume 2 (p.1381)
• Appendix A: Women’s History
• Potpourri on pages 35 - 38 is useful for selecting a person
• Ref HQ 1410 H36 1999

Handbook of American Women’s History

• Give brief articles on topics as well as on individuals
• Each article has very useful bibliography
• Index in the back of the book; Bold type indicates name of article.
• Light type indicates name of topic within the article.

Websites

For primary sources on the Internet, see the selective list of websites below:

• American Women's History: Research guide
• American Women's History: finding rimary sources
• Civil War Women: Primary sources on the Internet
• African American women: Primary sources on the Internet
• National Women Hall of Fame. Biographies
• Women's History
  American Women in history
• North American Slave Narratives Beginnings to 1920
  The southern experience in 19th century America slave narratives, memoirs, diaries of women and men.  Maintained by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
• Living the legacy - The Women's Rights Movement, 1984-1998.
  An online archival collection maintained by Special Collections at Duke University Designed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the worlds' first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.    Includes history of the movement, detailed timeline, list of women's organizations, curriculum ideas.
• Notable Women Ancestors
  Biographies of women ancestors. 
• Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  Primary sources, maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
• Women and Social Movements
  In the United States (1830-1930) Introduction to a collection of primary documents posed and answered by students at SUNY-Binghamton. 
• Women's History Magazine vol2
  Articles and biographies focusing on women and work.
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
  An expanded and searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001).
• American Memory From the Library of Congress, the American Memory project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections. There are over 70 collections included in the project. Go the the American Memory website and search a particular topic or browse through the collections.
• Women in baseball Primary sources of women in baseball.

Women's suffrage (1820-1920) websites

• African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections (Duke U.)
• Celebrating Women's Achievements (National Library of Canada)
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Duke U.)
• Diotima, Women and Gender in Antiquity (U. of Kentucky)
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke U.)
• Emma Goldman Papers (Berkeley)
• National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1848-1921 (Library of Congress)

• Archives for Research on Women and Gender (U. of Texas, San Antonio)
• Wellesley Centers for Women (Wellesley College)
• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Radcliffe College)

• Brown University Women Writers Project
• Celebration of Women Writers (M. Mark, U. of Pennsylvania)
• The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
• Reading Women Writers & African Literatures (U. of Western Australia)
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U.)
• Women Writers Resource Project (Emory U.)