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
  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. Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
  2. Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
  3. Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
  4. By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
  5. Hannah Arendt Papers
  6. The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, 1925-1944
  7. Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
  8. The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
  9. 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
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
  1. Women of Four Wars
 
     
     
  Music & Dance
  1. Dolly Parton & the Roots of Country Music
  2. Selections from the Katherine Dunham 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. Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Else
  7. Who's That Lady?
  8. Women's Words of Wisdom
 
     
     
  Webcasts (streaming RealVideo®)
  1. Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
  2. Women's History Month Celebration: Women's Art -- Women's Vision
  3. Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII
  4. Women Who Dare
  5. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
  6. Frances Perkins, the Woman Behind FDR
  7. Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger & Jane Addams
  8. Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
  9. Women in Science and Engineering
  10. Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet
  11. Legislating in Heels--An Anecdotal Journal: The Honorable Constance Connie Morella
  12. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances
  13. A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
  14. Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies
  15. Women in Iran: Past, Present and Future
  16. My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
  17. Afghan Women's Stories: the Problematics of Cover
  18. Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation
  19. The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin
  20. Reading Lolita in Tehran: Azar Nafisi
  21. Life Lines: The Literature of Women
  22. Native American Women Writers
  23. Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
  24. Shelia Moses: Poet, Author, Playwright
  25. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Cokie Roberts
  26. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Andrea Mitchell
  27. Journalist & Author: Maria Celeste Arrarás
  28. Journalist & Author: Anna Quindlen
  29. Author: Mary Pope Osborne
  30. Author: Sue Monk Kidd
  31. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
  32. Judy Blume: 2009 National Book Festival
  33. Kirstin Downey: 2009 National Book Festival
  34. Patricia Smith: 2009 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.
 
     
     
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  "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. cph 3a32338 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. cph 3a32338		  
     
     
  Woman representation in Congress in March, 2010:
  1. Women currently hold 90, or 16.8%, of the 535 seats in the 11th U.S Congress (17, or 17.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 73, or 16.8%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives).
  2. There are 73 women from 31 states serving in the House of Representatives (56 are Democrats and 17 are Republicans); additionally, 3 women Democrats (from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C.) serve as Delegates to the House.
 
     
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