European Immigration into the USA See also this casahistoria page for links to the life of immigrant woman at this time

Work

• Women and Work in Early America From the late colonial period through the American Revolution, women's work usually centred on the home, but romanticizing this role as the Domestic Sphere came in the early 19th century. An article by Jone Johnson Lewis, Women's History Guide
• Women in America: Occupations Travellers to America in 1820-1842 describe women's occupations, providing insight into the status and roles of women.
• Women and Finance in the Early National U.S. An extensive survey by Robert E. Wright, U. of Virginia, on women as business owners, loan recipients, investors or otherwise involved in financial issues and the workforce in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. §
• Woman's right to labor, or, Low wages and hard work Caroline Wells Healey Dall's 1859 lectures on women and work. Graphic original facsimile format for the pages. Requires patience to load!
• Hearth A novel site with much of domestic interest . This is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals.

Women and the frontier Go to this section in the casahistoria European Immigration into the USA site

Early Political Emancipation Movements

• The Campaign to Raise the Age of Consent, 1886-1914  Well supported set of articles on the campaign from Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 §

Women's Suffrage in the USA Go to casahistoria page for extensive links to suffrage campaigns in the USA (see also the Suffrage in Great Britain page).

• Notable Women in Black History A good place to start, biographies and links to many sites on African american women's history
• Multi-Racial Movement in the Baltimore YWCA 1883-1926 YWCAs developed to address problems of working class women in large cities. This site shows, through an overview with accompanying source documents, how the YWCA in one city, Baltimore, worked to address such issues across racial lines.
• Admissions 1860-1920 This site focuses on the history of higher education for African American women. §

• The black woman of the South : her neglects and her needs by Dr Alexander Crummell. Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, from 1879-1898, spoke out for black liberation, and founded the Negro Academy. This speech focuses on the status of African American women in slavery, which Crummell says was worse than for men because women were more isolated. To improve the lot of black women within the present generation, Crummell proposes that "sisterhoods" be sent into the rural South to train and teach black women and that industrial schools be established for them in the South as well.

Slavery Click to go to young casahistoria page

• Ex-Slave Mary Fields in Montana Story of the life of "Black Mary," African American ex-slave who settled in Montana after the Civil War and earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. By George Everett for Wild West Magazine
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Left Legacy Worth Celebrating Once you can find this article amongst the many ads, read about Frances Ellen Watkins Harper who represented many causes and constituencies during an 85-year life. She was an activist for black empowerment, voting rights, feminism, spirituality, plus moral and ethical living. §
• Elizabeth Johnson Harris Elizabeth Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867, to parents who had been slaves. She married Jacob Walker Harris in 1883 at the age of 15 and was the mother of nine children. She lived until 1942, surviving her husband and two of her children. She was a deeply religious woman who spent much of her life in service to her church. She clearly valued education, both for herself and her children. She had several of her poems and vignettes published in various newspapers during her lifetime. She included these in the manuscript of her life story, which she started writing at the age of 55 in 1923. This is the scanned writings of Harris, here in both images and text. They give insight into the life of an African American woman in the late 19th - early 20th century.
• Charlotte Ray (1850-1911) First African American woman lawyer in the US and first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. An about.com profile.
• Susan Baker King Taylor: Reminiscences of Life with the 33d  An article by Kimberly J. Largent about Susan Baker King Taylor who was secretly schooled in her young years, who became a laundress while her husband enlisted in the Union army. She also served as a nurse, cleaned guns, and generally helped with the "colored" regiment's business, short of actual fighting.
• Sojourner Truth from About Guide to Women's History. Concise bio with many links to other sites.
• Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People Fugitive slave, Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War nurse and soldier, women's rights advocate and social reformer An four-part in-depth biography by Jone Johnson Lewis, Women's History Guide. See also More about Harriet Tubman for many more links to Harriet Tubman sites.

• John James Audubon and  Charles Dickens Their (separate) observations of women in America in the early 19th century (1808-1826). Useful excerpts from their writings.
• Channing and Others, by Fuller Margaret Fuller, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, writes of male voices who, in her view, were supportive of women. The essay is a reproduction, modified and expanded, of an article published in "The Dial," Boston, July, 1843, under the title of "The Great Lawsuit.--Man versus Men ; Woman versus Women."  This article excited a good deal of sympathy, and still more interest.
• Frederick Douglass: Women's Rights Illustrated exhibit, includes words from Douglass supporting women's rights and details of his long commitment to women's suffrage.
• Hegel: Feminist Critique  Antoinette M. Stafford's article on Hegel's views on women and the family
• Jefferson and His Daughters The story of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his daughters illustrates 19th century American attitudes towards and education of women.
• Mill: On the Subjection of Women Classic essay by John Stuart Mill (1869) in support of women's rights. Click here for Notes to help with the essay by Andrew Roberts
• Mark Twain: "The Ladies" An 1872 humorous speech by Mark Twain looking at women in history...
• Uncivil Liberty (1873): "An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent." Ezra H. Heywood attacks the legal inequality in the US of men over women.

• Biographies of Notable Women  On this site: a growing collection of biographies of notable women: both some who are well-known, and others you might want to learn about.
• Women in world history straightforward and useful series of lessons for schools on key aspects of women's history. Well supported by documents, activities.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present Comprehensive listing of women in history.  
• Emancipation of Women and Women's Suffrage from the Spartacus educational Site. Excellent information 
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook A massive site telling the story of women's History through the ages. Use the index and choose a time to read about!
• Women's History Encyclopedia The Encyclopedia of Women's History needs you! If you've got something to say about women's history -- about an individual, a topic, an event, a famous first -- you can add it to this large online project easily. Learn more here. Easy to use.

  






6. Researching Women's History

• Genesis is a mapping initiative, funded by the UK Research Support Libraries Programme to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. Use it to search the Genesis database by using a search box on the opening page.
• H-Women Discussion Group Scholarly discussion to communicate current research and teaching interests, to test new ideas and to share comments on current historiography.
• WWW Virtual Library of Women's History This virtual library contains a very comprehensive list of women's history in institutions and organizations
• Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections  Maintained by the Archives for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this list is the most comprehensive source of information about Internet sites related to women's archival collections. Over 70 collections are identified and listed geographically. A massive, serious, list arranged geographically, this is the place for one-stop shopping
• Library Collections Library collections of original sources (letters, diaries, papers, etc.) on the topic of women's history.  From about.com

• Pictures, Photographs, Portraits and Posters Women's history in images from about.com  Includes several specialized galleries including 17th century costume, women and the Civil War, pictures of the women's suffrage movement, World War I, World War II
• Documents of Women's History A growing library of documents for studying women's history. Speeches, articles, biographies, stories and more
• Etexts and Women's History: about.com Where to find etexts on women's history on the Net.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Very extensive range of documents. Each category of documents begins with a useful thematic essay. About a third of the document projects on Women and Social Movements are freely available on the web. This is well worth searching through.
• Other Women's Voices Interesting site that takes you to passages from over 125 women writers. The entries are on women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700, some or all of which has been translated into modern English. Each entry tells you about the print sources from which the translated passages are taken; it also tells you of useful secondary sources and Internet sites
• The Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1941 This site contains an index of all the fiction stories and non-fiction articles from the Girl's Own Paper covering the period 1880 to 1941 (Volumes 1 to 62). The index was compiled by Honor Ward, and a version of the fiction index has appeared in the Girl's Own Guide