Women's History
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  Exhibitions
The Diary of a Confederate Woman A Colored Women in a White World: Mary Church Terrell
The Woman's Bible Women's Trade Union Seal
Women's War Relief Women and the War Effort
Petal From the Rose American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
Blondie Gets Married The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters During WWII
 
     
     
  American Memory Collections
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
Hannah Arendt Papers
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, 1925-1944
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
 
     
     
  America's Library
Phyllis Wheatley Pocahontas Mary Kies
Julia Archibald Holmes Fannie Farmer Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Jane Addams Elizabeth Blackwell
Grace Abbot Nellie Bly Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mahalia Jackson Kathy Whitworth Amelia Earhart
Dorothea Lange Althea Gibson
 
     
     
  Featured Women
Harriet Tubman Susan B. Anthony Rosa Parks
Sandra Day O'Connor Elizabeth ShippenGreen Carol M. Highsmith
 
     
     
  Images

Pictorial Americana: Women's Rights - Selected Images
Photographs of Women During the Civil War - Selected Images
Esther Bubley's Photographs
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
First Ladies of the United States - Selected Images
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview
First Ladies of the United States - Selected Images
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten: Dancers
Rosie Pictures: American Women Workers During World War II - Selected Images
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
Women of Four Wars
 
     
     
  Music & Dance
Dolly Parton & the Roots of Country Music
Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans
Ladies, Contraband, and Spies Women Struggle and Triumph
Stand Up and Sing Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies
Suffragists and Their Tactics Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Else
Rosie the Riveter Who's That Lady?
Women's Words of Wisdom
 
     
     
  Webcasts
Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII
Women Who Dare
American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger & Jane Addams
Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances
A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies
Women in Iran: Past, Present and Future
Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation
Reading Lolita in Tehran: Azar Nafisi
Life Lines: The Literature of Women
Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
Shelia Moses: Poet, Author, Playwright
Broadcast Journalist & Author: Cokie Roberts
Broadcast Journalist & Author: Andrea Mitchell
Journalist & Author: Maria Celeste Arrarás
Journalist & Author: Anna Quindlen
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Native American Women Writers
Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
 
     
     
  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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