NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Female Soldiers Graduate From Army Ranger School
Read about the historic accomplishment of Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver, who are the first women soldiers to graduate from Army Ranger school.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Declaration of Sentiments
This Wikipedia page provides the text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Eve in Khaki Women's Role in the First World War
Eve in Khaki is a short book written during the First World War which describes some of the new roles that women were taking on with the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Take a look at these extracts from the book and think about how...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Women and World War Ii
Read about the opportunities that women had during World War II to work in jobs that had previously been unimaginable. To assist working mothers, the first childcare programs were begun, and efforts were made to make jobs in the defense...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Women Record Several 'Firsts' With Wins in u.s. Senate, Elsewhere
In the Senate and House women, not just women, but women with different cultural backgrounds, won seats in the 2016 election. Find out more about the historical winners of the day.
Other
Museum of Women Pilots: Women in Aviation History
The history of women pilots from 1909 to 1996, from the first woman licensed to fly to the first female Marine Corps pilot commanding a combat helicopter. Much information about the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) which later...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Hillary Clinton's Address to the U. N. World Conference on Women
A learning module that begins with "First Lady Hillary Clinton's Address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women" by First Lady Hillary Clinton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion...
A&E Television
History.com: How Black Women Fought for Civil War Pensions and Benefits
In a time when military pensions were a large part of the federal budget, Black women faced unique challenges in securing compensation. Widows of Civil War soldiers could begin applying to the Bureau of Pensions during the war, and one...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Women in the White House
In this lesson plan, students will consider Women in the White House. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson plan, students explore the role and impact of recent First Ladies...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Women in Israel
The Jewish Virtual Library offers links to different articles over the status of women in Israel such as women in public life, the status of women in Israel, and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Elizabeth Blackwell
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910 CE), the first woman doctor in the United States.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Shirley Chisholm
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 1972.
A&E Television
History.com: 8 Astounding Moments in Women's Olympic Gymnastics
From Olga Korbut's famous flip to Kerri Strug's vault landing to Simone Biles' multiple golds, see the feats that wowed the world. Women's gymnastics has been an official sport in the Summer Olympics since 1928, when the first female...
PBS
Pbs Frontline: : The Roles of Women in the Early Christian Church
A good article describing the roles of women and what status they had under early Christianity. There is another excerpt from Elaine Pagels in which she argues that early Christianity was not so egalitarian when it came to women.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Women and Minorities
Although the colonial period produced several women writers of note, the revolutionary era did not further the work of women and minorities, despite the many schools, magazines, newspapers, and literary clubs that were springing up....
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington
On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote. Michelle Mehrtens details how the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
In this lesson plan, students will consider Women in Africa: Tradition and Change. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. Students first examine a selection of traditional African artworks that...
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Women During the Civil War
Article that takes a look at the role of women in the South during the American Civil War especially in Georgia.
Duke University
Duke University Libraries: Digitized Collections: African American Women
Access Civil War-era documents that give us a rare first-hand glimpse into the lives of African American women at the time: letters of two slave women from the 1830s and 1850s and a hand-written memoir of another woman born shortly after...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Amelia Earhart
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a short biography of Amelia Mary Earhart, the first person to fly from Hawaii to California, and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Frances Perkins
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Frances Perkins. Appointed secretary of labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was the first female cabinet member.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Janet Reno
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Janet Reno, the first female U.S. Attorney General. Her most controversial decision was her order of FBI agents to raid the compound of the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Texas.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Women's Labor
From the Lowell factory workers to the feminized role of the American schoolteacher, women began to make professional strides during the first half of the 19th century.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Liliuokalani
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Liliuokalani, the first woman to be queen of Hawaii.