American Women's History Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for American Women's History. Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic.

LINCCWeb Subject Headings linked to SCC Library American Women's History holdings including the Call Number and Availability for each. Choose from:

Selected Internet Links

• African American
• American Indian
• Asian American
• General
• Hispanic American

LINCCWeb Subject Headings linked to SCC Library American Women's History holdings including the Call Number and Availability for each.

African American

• Afro-American women authors Biography
• African American women civil rights workers Alabama Montgomery
• Afro-American women scientists Biography
• Afro-American women Biography
• Afro-American women History
• Afro-American women History Pictorial works
• Afro-American women poets 20th century Biography
• Afro-American women United States History 20th century

American Indians

• Indians of North America - Arizona - Women - Biography
• Indians of North America - Southern States
• Yaqui Indians - Women - Biography

Asian American

• Asian American women in literature
• Asian Americans - History
  

General

• Abused women - United States
• American fiction - Women authors
• Businesswomen - United States - Case studies
• Family life - United States
• Femininity - United States - History - 20th century
• Feminism - United States - History
• Home economics - History
• Housewives - United States - History
• Marriage - United States
• Middle-aged women - United States
• Mother and child - United States
• Mothers and daughters - United States - History
• Mothers - Employment - Social aspects - United States
• Mothers of presidents - United States - Biography
• Mothers - United States
• Mothers - United States - History - 20th century
• Poor women - United States - Social conditions
• Sexual harassment of women - United States
• Single mothers - United States
• Single women - United States
• Television and women - United States
• Women
• Women air pilots - United States - Biography
• Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century
• Women artists - United States
• Women authors, American - Biography
• Women civil rights workers - United States. - Biography
• Women coaches (Athletics) - United States - Biography - Dictionaries
• Women college administrators - United States
• Women - Employment - United States
• Women - Florida - Biography
• Women - history - United States - biography
• Women in journalism - United States
• Women novelists, American - 19th century - Biography
• Women philosophers - United States - Biography
• Women poets, American - 19th century - Biography
• Women poets, American - 20th century - Biography
• Women scientists - United States
• Women scientists - United States - History - 20th century
• Women - Southern States - Intellectual life
• Women - United States - Biography
• Women - United States - History
• Women - United States - Social conditions
• Women's rights - United States
• Working mothers - United States
• World War, 1939-1945 - Women - United States

Hispanic American

• Hispanic American women artists - Psychology
• Hispanic Americans - History

American Women's History Internet Links

American Indian

• American Indian Women (MTSU)
• Wilma Mankiller - Mankiller was the first female in modern history to lead a major Native American tribe.

Asian American

• Asian-American History (About)
• Elaine L. Chao, the first Asian-American woman appointed to a President's cabinet in U. S. history

General

• American Women's History (MTSU)
• Distinguished Women of Past & Present (Bois)
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Gifts of Speech: Womens Speeches from Around the World
• National Women's History Project
• North America (Internet Women's History Sourcebook)
• Seneca Falls Convention (Smithsonian)
• Women in American History (Britannica Online)
• WWWomen! The Premier Search Directory for Women Online
  

Women's Rights

• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
• Feminist Chronicles 1953 - 1993 - Focuses on events related to women & women's rights
• Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998

Hispanic American

• Antonia Novella (the first female & first Hispanic to be appointed to the position of U.S. Surgeon General)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (first Hispanic woman elected to Congress)
• Lucille Roybal-Allard (first Mexican-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress)

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