Women in History


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General Sources Alphabetical Listing

General Biography Links:

                 Biographies of Famous Women
          http://www.biographyonline.net/people/famous/100-women.html

     National Women's Hall of Fame-
      https://www.womenofthehall.org/women-of-the-hall/

     Lists of Famous Women in History - Living Vignettes - huge site
        http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm
        http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/research.htm


   
 
Women of the Century - 100 Years of American Heroes
       http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/

     Biography.com
       http://www.biography.com/people

     History's Women - http://www.historyswomen.com/

    Women of NASA
       http://women.nasa.gov/

   
Women in Science - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/women-in-stem
                        https://my.nsta.org/collection/AG9!plus!DDwdppg_E

    Women in Science over 4000 years
       http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml


    Biographies of Women Mathematicians

       http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

    

    First Ladies of the United States of America
       https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/

    Women Nobel Prize Laureates
       http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html

    Women Who Changed History
       http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/index.htm

    National Museum of Women in the Arts - http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles

    Famous Women Writers of Color from the University of Minnesota
      http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/164018

Maya Angelou - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166071/Angelou%2c%20Maya.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Gwendolyn Brooks - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166106/Brooks%2c%20Gwendolyn.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Angela Davis - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166143/Davis%2c%20Angela.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Louise Erdrich - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166164/Erdrich%2c%20Louise.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Virginia Hamilton - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166178/Hamilton%2c%20Virginia.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Coretta Scott King - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166248/King%2c%20Coretta%20Scott.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Alice Walker - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166348/Walker%2c%20Alice.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Phillis Wheatley - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166356/Wheatley%2c%20Phillis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 


       Alphabetical Listing of Some Famous Women

    Abigail Adams - First Lady
      https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/abigail-smith-adams/
      http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2

    Jane Addams - suffragist, social worker
       http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/janeadams.html
       http://www.biography.com/people/jane-addams-9176298

    Marian Anderson - opera singer
       http://marianandersonhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/biography.html
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson
       http://www.biography.com/people/marian-anderson-9184422
       http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/

    Susan B. Anthony - suffragist
       http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905
       http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.php
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
       http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/susan-b-anthony.htm

   
Lucille Ball - actress
       http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ball/ball.htm
       http://www.museum.tv/eotv/balllucille.htm
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball
       http://www.biography.com/people/lucille-ball-9196958
       http://www.essortment.com/lucille-ball-biography-20822.html

  
 Clara Barton - nurse
       http://www.biography.com/people/clara-barton-9200960
       http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/barton.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
       http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton
       http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/clara-barton

    Mary McLeod Bethune - educator
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune
       http://womenshistory.about.com/od/bethune/a/mary_bethune.htm
       http://www.biography.com/people/mary-mcleod-bethune-9211266
       http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/bethune-mary.cfm

    Elizabeth Blackwell - doctor
       http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-blackwell-9214198
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
      
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/blackwell/index.html
       https://www.famousscientists.org/elizabeth-blackwell/
       http://womenshistory.about.com/od/blackwellelizabeth/a/eliz_blackwell.htm

    Ethelda Bleibtrey -Olympic swimmer -
     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelda_Bleibtrey  
      http://www.ishof.org/Honorees/67/67ebleibtrey.html
      http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/ethelda-bleibtrey-1.html
      http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=AWS0017&DataType=AmericanHistory&WinType=Free

   Nellie Bly - reporter
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
     
http://www.nellieblyonline.com/
     
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/youngandbrave/bly.html
      http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680
     
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/peopleevents/pande01.html

   Anne Bradstreet - poet
      http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_bio_001.htm
      http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/lit/bradstre.htm
      http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/bradbio.htm
      http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0328/p18s04-hfks.html

   Pearl S. Buck - writer
      
http://www.essortment.com/pearl-s-buck-44152.html
      http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/buck-bio.html
      http://www.gradesaver.com/author/pearl-buck/
     
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/

      http://www.biography.com/people/pearl-s-buck-9230389

             Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - astronomer
                
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
                http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/bell.html
                http://www.biography.com/people/jocelyn-bell-burnell-9206018
                http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/burn.html

             Rachel Carson - zoologist

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
                http://www.rachelcarson.org/
                http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btcars.html

     
          http://www2.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/carson.htm

  Mary Cassatt - artist
          http://www.marycassatt.org/biography.html
          http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/mary-cassatt
      http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/
     
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cast/hd_cast.htm
      http://www.biography.com/people/mary-cassatt-9240820

         
http://www.artelino.com/articles/mary_cassatt.asp

  Willa Cather - writer
        http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/cather1.htm
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
       http://www.willacather.org/about-willa-cather/willa-cather?start=1

   Beverly Cleary - author
       http://www.beverlycleary.com/beverlycleary/index.html
       http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/cleary.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary
      
http://dropeverythingandread.com/beverlycleary.html
      
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/books/review/profile-of-beverly-cleary.html?pagewanted=all

    Bessie Coleman - aviatrix
       http://www.biography.com/people/bessie-coleman-36928
       http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html
       http://www.bessiecoleman.org/bio-bessie-coleman.php
       http://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/coleman-bessie/
       

    Shirley Chisholm - politician and educator
       https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm
       https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CHISHOLM,-Shirley-Anita-(C000371)/
       https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/african-american-heroes/shirley-chisholm/
       https://www.biography.com/political-figure/shirley-chisholm
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

     Marie Curie - scientist
       http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/curie_m.htm
      
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/contents.htm

       http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/msc.htm - Science in Poland - Zbigniew Zwolinki
       http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/index.html

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie     

    Emily Dickinson - poet
       
http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emilys_biography
       
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155
       http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html
       
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/ (includes poems)
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
      
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/dickinsonemily/a/emily_dickinson.htm

      Amelia Earhart - aviator
       http://www.ameliaearhart.com/
       http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

       
http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html

    Sylvia Earle - biologist
       http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ear0bio-1
       http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/53-Earle
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle
       
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/sylvia-earle/
       http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/peopleplaces/sylvia-earle/

      Mary Baker Eddy - religious leader
      http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/mary-baker-eddy/life
      http://marybakereddy.wwwhubs.com/
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Baker_Eddy
      http://www.biography.com/people/mary-baker-eddy-9283987

     

    Gertrude Ederle - athlete/swimmer
       http://www.msu.edu/~grawbur1/iahweb.html
       http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-A-Fi/Ederle-Gertrude.html
      
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD7103AF932A35751C1A9659C8B63
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Ederle

    Elizabeth I ( 1533-1603) - queen of England
        http://www.elizabethi.org/
       
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm
      
 http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon45.html
       
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz1.html


    Ella Fitzgerald - singer
       http://www.redsugar.com/ella.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald
       
http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/
       http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_e.html

    Anne Frank
       http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/
      
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/
      
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/annefran.htm

       
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
      
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005210


         Rosalind Franklin - chemist, scientist
        http://www.biography.com/people/rosalind-franklin-9301344
        https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
        http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/rosalind-franklin-legacy.html
        http://www.livescience.com/39804-rosalind-franklin.html

    Indira Gandhi - political leader
       http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/Indira.html
       http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ghandi_i.htm
      
http://www.indiragandhi.com/index.html


     
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court justice
       http://www.biography.com/people/ruth-bader-ginsburg-9312041
       http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ginsburg.html


          Amanda Gorman - poet
       h
ttps://www.theamandagorman.com/
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman
       https://poets.org/poet/amanda-gorman
      
https://time.com/5933596/amanda-gorman-michelle-obama-interview/

      Beulah Henry - inventor
       http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbeulah.htm
       http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/273.html
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Louise_Henry

   
Grace Hopper - mathematician and computer pioneer
       http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hopper.html
       http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html
    
   http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
       http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/hopper.htm

    Charlayne Hunter-Gault - journalist
     
 http://www.usca.edu/aasc/hunter.htm

       http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/21/i_ins.00.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlayne_Hunter-Gault
      
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/huntergault/Charlayne_HunterGault.htm

    Anne Hutchinson - religious leader
        http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_hutchison.html
       
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson
       
http://www.annehutchinson.com/anne_hutchinson_biography_001.htm

        
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h577.html

         Mary Jackson - mathematician/engineer/NASA scientist
        https://www.nasa.gov/content/mary-jackson-biography
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)
        http://www.biography.com/people/mary-winston-jackson-120616
        http://blackdoctor.org/508736/mary-jackson-hidden-figures/

    Lotte Jacobi - photographer
       
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Jacobi
       
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/index.php/lotte-jacobi
       
http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous_People/Link_Free_or_Die/Lotte_Jacobi/
       
http://www.state.nh.us/nharts/artsandartists/inmemory/lottejacobi.html

     Katherine Johnson - physicist/mathematician/NASA scientist
        https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson
        http://thehumancomputerproject.com/women/katherine-johnson
        http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/08/katherine-johnson-the-nasa-mathematician-who-advanced-human-rights       

    Barbara Jordan - Congresswoman
   
     http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/jordan_b.htm
        http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/Jordan/goodhopebio.html
        http://www.elf.net/bjordan/jackson-lee.html

       
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan
       
http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=122

    Helen Keller - author and lecturer
        http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/keller.htm
        
http://www.afb.org/section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129

        http://www.nndb.com/people/074/000046933/
        
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

    Elena Kagan - Supreme Court justice
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan
        http://www.biography.com/people/elena-kagan-560228

    Coretta Scott King - human rights advocate
      
http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-mrs-king
     
 http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/king_c_s.htm
     
 http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1bio-1

   Margaret Knight - inventor
     
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blknight.htm
      http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/knight.html
      http://search.eb.com/women/article-9125831

   
Hedy Lamarr - actress and inventor
       http://www.hedylamarr.com/about/
       http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/bio
     
 http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/didyouknow.1.html
       http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/bio

    Maya Lin - architect, sculptor
       http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/lin_m.htm
       http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lin0bio-1
       http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/lin_m.htm

    Belva Ann Lockwood - American law pioneer
   
    http://www.momscape.com/articles/lockwood.htm

      
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/spring/belva-lockwood-1.html
       http://www.biography.com/people/belva-lockwood-9384624
       http://americacomesalive.com/2012/03/01/belva-lockwood-1830-1917-american-attorney-and-crusader-for-equal-rights/
       http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/biography_search/biopage/?woman_lawyer_id=10580

     Juliette Gordon Low - founder of the Girl Scouts
       http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/low_biography/
      
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/low-jul.htm
      
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2893&hl=y
      
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/low.htm

    Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke
      http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
      http://www.historyswomen.com/1stWomen/MaryLyon.htm

    Dolley Madison - First Lady
      https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/dolley-payne-todd-madison/    
  
   http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=4
     
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/
      http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/madi-dol.htm

    Mary Hays McCauly (Molly Pitcher)
      
http://earlyamerica.com/molly_pitcher.html
       http://sill-www.army.mil/famag/1990/AUG_1990/AUG_1990_PAGES_38_40.pdf
      
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/youasked/070.htm

      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Pitcher

     Barbara McClintock - Nobel Prize winner
       http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/mcclint.htm
       
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1983/mcclintock-autobio.html
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
       http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/LL/p-nid/45

    Golda Meir - Prime Minister of Israel
      http://www.wic.org/bio/gmeir.htm
      http://www.ou.org/chagim/yomhaatzmauth/golda.html
     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir
     
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html
     
http://www.miriamscup.com/MeirBiog.htm

     Edna St. Vincent Millay - poet
   
   http://www.millaysociety.org/millaybio.htm
      http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay_life.htm
      http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/160

    Maria Mitchell - astronomer
      http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/mitchell.html
      http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/MITCHELL.html
     
http://www.mariamitchell.org/mitchell-house/for-students/
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell

    Lucretia Mott - women's rights leader
       http://www.mott.pomona.edu/mott1.htm
       http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00494.html

       http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blmott.htm
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott

    Florence Nightingale - nurse
      http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/nightingale_f.htm
      http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/florrie.html
      http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Nightingale-Florence.html

    Emmy Noether - mathematician
     
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/noether.html
      http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Noether_Emmy.html
     
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html?_r=0
     
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html?_r=0
      https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm

   
Sandra Day O'Connor - Supreme Court justice
       http://www.biography.com/people/sandra-day-oconnor-9426834
      
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/oconnor_s.htm
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O'Connor

       
http://phoenix.about.com/cs/famous/a/oconnor.htm

    Georgia O'Keefe - artist
     
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/biography.html
      http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=116
      http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html
      http://www.georgia-okeeffe.com/biography.html
      http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/georgia-o%E2%80%99keeffe

    Annie Oakley - marksman
       http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/oakley-annie/
      
http://www.historynet.com/annie-oakley.htm
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
       http://www.dorchesterlibrary.org/library/aoakley.html

    Michelle Obama - lawyer/First Lady
       http://www.biography.com/people/michelle-obama-307592
       https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/michelle-obama/
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
       http://www.vogue.com/article/michelle-obama-december-cover-interview-first-lady-white-house-departure
       http://www.history.com/topics/first-ladies/michelle-obama

    Rosa Parks - civil rights activist
      
http://www.rosaparks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118&Itemid=60
       http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
   
    http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htm

      
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

        Jeannette Rankin - politician
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin
       http://www.biography.com/people/jeannette-rankin-9451806
       http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/jeannette-rankin
       https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/26/jeannette-rankin-the-woman-who-voted-to-give-women-the-right-to-vote/
       http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00922.html      

    Marilla Ricker - New Hampshire's first woman lawyer - includes other links
     
 http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous_People/Link_Free_or_Die/Marilla_Ricker/
       
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/index.php/marilla-ricker
       
http://philosopedia.org/index.php/Marilla_Ricker
       
http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/doverhistory/marillamarksricker.htm   

    Sally Ride - astronaut
       http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96may/ride.html (info plus other sites)
      
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
       http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Ride-Sally.html
       http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/124-Ride
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride 


   
Eleanor Roosevelt - humanitarian
      https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/anna-eleanor-roosevelt/
     
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=33
     
http://www.udhr.org/history/Biographies/bioer.htm

      http://www.nndb.com/people/467/000022401/
      http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/roosevelt_e.htm

    J. K. Rowling - author
      http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/rowling_jk.htm
     
http://www.jkrowling.com/
     
http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/jkrowling.html (interview)
     
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9346272

      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling

    Wilma Rudolph - track star
      http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/rudolph_w.htm
      http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/rudo-wil.htm
      http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016444.html ( ESPN site)
      http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/130-Rudolph
     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph

   
Sacajawea - guide and interpreter
     
http://www.biography.com/people/sacagawea-9468731
     
http://www.sacagawea.com/
     
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sacagawea/a/sacagawea.htm
      http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/sakajawe.html

      http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sacagawea.htm (PBS)

    Jeanne Shaheen - senator and former NH governor
     
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/nh_shaheen.html

      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen
     
http://www.shaheen.senate.gov/about/biography/

    Beverly Sills - opera singer
      http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/143-Sills
      http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/
     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Sills

    Sonia Sotomayor - Supreme Court justice
    
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
    
 http://www.biography.com/people/sonia-sotomayor-453906
     
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/publicofficials/p/sotomayor.htm

   
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - women's rights
      http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/148-Stanton
     
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm
      http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm
      http://www.elizabethcadystanton.org/

   
Belle Starr - "bandit queen"

      
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm
      
http://www.historynet.com/belle-starr.htm
      
http://www.frontiertimes.com/outlaws/belle_starr.html
      
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bellestarr.html
      
http://www.biography.com/people/belle-starr-9492533

    
Annie Sullivan Macy - teacher to Helen Keller
      http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/sull-ann.htm
     
http://www.biography.com/people/anne-sullivan-9498826
      http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=a_sullivan
     
http://www.graceproducts.com/keller/anne.html

    Maria Tallchief - ballerina
      http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/154-Tallchief
     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Tallchief
     
http://www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Tallchief-Maria.html
     
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/dance/p/maria_tallchief.htm

      http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/tallchie.htm

    Sojourner Truth - abolitionist
       http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
       http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284
       
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/truth_s.htm
       http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/truth.htm
       http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html

    Harriet Tubman - rights activist
       http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/tubman_h.htm
      
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/tubm-har.htm
      
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
      
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430
      
http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/
       http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/tubman.htm

     Dorothy Vaughn - mathematician/NASA scientistZ
       http://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-johnson-vaughan-111416
       https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan
       http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/08/dorothy-vaughan-space-race-c-v-r.html

    Mercy Otis Warren  - poet, historian, and writer
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren
       http://www.bookrags.com/biography/mercy-otis-warren/
      
http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/warren_me.html

       http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/194-Warren

       http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0328/p18s04-hfks.html

    Alice Waters - chef and visionary
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters
       http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/tag/alice-waters/
       http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/alice-waters/filmmaker-interview/729/
       http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=aliceWaters

    Laura Ingalls Wilder - author
       http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm
      
http://www.liwms.com/
      
http://www.notablebiographies.com/We-Z/Wilder-Laura-Ingalls.html
      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder 

    Emma Hart Willard - educator
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Willard
       http://www.biography.com/people/emma-willard-9531676
      
http://www.nwhp.org/whm/honorees2012.php
      
http://www.ajha.org/education-reformers-emma-willard.htm
      
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/Biographies_Willard.htm

   
Babe Didricksen Zaharias - athlete
       http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/didriksonzaharias_b.htm
       http://cnnsi.com/siforwomen/top_100/2/ (CNN Sports)
       http://www.babedidriksonzaharias.org/wp/?page_id=74
       
http://www.biography.com/people/babe-didrikson-zaharias-9542047


     Lesson Plans and Activities  - http://www.proteacher.com/090081.shtml
                                  
     Women in History Webquests
       
 https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson164.shtml
         http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=175066
         https://www.createwebquest.com/webquest/famous-women-history

     
Women in History Scavenger Hunt - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson102.shtml

     Women's History Month Quiz - https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-history-quiz-4082540
                                         https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/quizzes/
                                        

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