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Concerning Women's Issues

 

These websites are valuable resources that represent a sampling of the information available over the internet. 
Most of these sites provide links to multiple other sites with similar topics.

 

Name of Site/Compiler

Internet Location (URL)

The President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History.

http://www.gsa.gov/staff/pa/whc.htm

The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Save America’s Treasures

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/treasures/index3.html

The National Women’s History Project

http://www.nwhp.org

Living the Legacy: The Women’s Rights Movement 1848-1998 (Sponsored by the NWHP)

http://www.legacy98.org

The National Park Service: Women’s Rights National Historic Park

http://www.nps.gov/wori

Library of Congress: Women’s History

http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/women.html

American Women’s Diaries (A Collection of diaries broken down by region: New England, Southern, and Western.)

http://www.newsbank.com/readex/scholarly/wdiar1.html

Women in Government, Politics, and the Military (a state report, including state governments)

http://www.gendergap.com/

Academic Information about American Women’s History (extensive web links)

http://www.academicinfo.net/uswomen.html

National Academy of Engineering Celebration of Women in Engineering

http://www.nae.edu/nae/cwe/cwe.nsf/Homepage/

American Women’s History: A Research Guide (Includes states and regional resources)

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

The Women of the National Women’s Hall of Fame

http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/fame.html

Women’s Biographies: Distinguished Women of the Past and Present

http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

Notable Women Ancestors

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/

Women of Achievement

http://undelete.org/woa.html

Women’s History in America: Women’s International Center

http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

The Sophia Smith Collection—Smith College Libraries

http://www.smith.edu/libraries/ssc/home.html

 

Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement, Duke University (1960-1970s)

http:scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism

http://www.wenet.net/~celesten/2ndwave.html

The National Women’s Party

http://www.natwomanparty.org

Archives of Women in Space and Engineering

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html

Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/

Women Nobel Prize Laureates

http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html

The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Laboratory

http://maia.usno.navy.mil/women_history/history.html

Women’s Legal History Biography Project

http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/

Women Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7282/women.html

The Ninety-Nines: Women in Aviation History

http://www.ninety-nines.org/bios.html

Fly Girls

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/flygirls

Women’s Veterans

http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/

Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/civil-war-women.html

Women in Vietnam

http://www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html

Women Came to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf

Courageous Women & the Unions They Love

http://www.uaw.org/special/women/women_quiz.html

National First Ladies’ Library

http://www.firstladies.org

Jewish Feminist Resources

http://world.std.com/~alevin/jewishfeminist.html

The Lesbian History Project

http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html

African-American Women Doctors

http://www.auhs.edu/institutes/iwh/whe/briefs/brief8.html

Women of NASA

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html

Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame

http://www.ctforum.org/cwhf/firsts.htm

Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame

http://scnc.leslie.k12.mi.us/~mwhfame/mwhonor.html

The National Women’s Hall of Fame

http://www.greatwomen.org/

Boston Women’s Web

http://www.bostonwomen.com

 

Organizations

American Association of State Colleges and Universities
1 Dupont Circle,
NWSuite #700
Washington, D.C.
20036202-293-7070
(fax) 202-296-5819

General Federation of Women’s Clubs
1734 N. Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-347-3168
(fax) 202-835-0246

 National Council of Women’s Organizations
126 16th Street, NW
Suite 411
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-331-7343
(fax) 202-331-7406

American Association of University Women
1111 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-785-7700(fax) 202-466-7637
www.aauw.org

Girls Incorporated
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
212-509-2000
(fax) 212-509-8708

National Organization for Women
1000 16th Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-331-0066
(fax) 202-785-8576
www.now.org

Association of Research Libraries
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Suite #800
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-296-2296
(fax) 202-872-0884 

MANA, A National Latina Organization
1725K Street, NW
Suite 501
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-833-0060
(fax) 202-496-0588
www.hermana.com

 National Parks and Conservation Association
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-223-6722
www.npca.com

Association for Women in Mathematics
4114 CSS Building
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-7892

Millenium Trails Program
Office of the Secretary, S-3
United States Department of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20590

National Recreation and Park Association
22377 Belmont Ridge Road
Ashburn, VA 20148
703-858-0784
www.nrpa.org

Black Women’s Agenda, Inc.
1225 Eye Street, NW
Suite 750-A
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-289-7769
(fax) 202-289-7785

National Association of Women’s Parks
P.O. Box 140717
Coral Gables, FL 33114
Founder: Bonnie Lano Rippingille
305-663-2691
303-252-585
rippingil@aol.com

National Register of Historic Places
National Parks Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20240
202-343-9500

Business and Professional Women/USA
2012 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20036
202-293-1100
(fax) 202-861-298

National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
444 N. Capitol Street, NW
Suite #342
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-624-5465

National Women’s History Project
7738 Bell Road
Windsor, CA 95492
707-838-6000
(fax) 707-838-0478
www.nwhp.org

Coalition of Labor Union Women
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-466-4610

National Council of Catholic Women
1275 K Street, NW
Suite #975
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-682-0334

National Women’s Party
144 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20002
202-546-1210
(fax) 202-546-3997
www.natwomanparty.org

Federation of Organizations for Professional Women
1825 Eye Street, NW
Suite #400
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-328-1415

National Council of Jewish Women
53 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
212-645-4048
(fax) 212-645-7466
www.ncjw.org

Organization of Chinese American Women, Inc.
4641 Montgomery Avenue
Suite 208
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-907-3898
(fax) 301-907-3899

The Feminist Majority Foundation
1600 Wilson Boulevard
Suite 801
 Arlington, VA 22209
703-522-2214
 (fax) 703-522-2219
www.feminist.org

National Council of Negro Women
633 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
202-737-0120
(fax) 202-383-9182
www.ncnw.com

Universities Research Association
111 19th Street, NW
Suite #400
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-293-1382