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.htmlNational 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_EWomen 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.htmlWomen Who Changed History
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/index.htmNational 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/11299/164018Maya 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 WomenAbigail 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.cfmElizabeth 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.htmEthelda 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=FreeNellie 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.htmlAnne 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.htmlPearl 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-9230389Susan 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.htmMary 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_CurieEmily 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.htmAmelia 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_EderleElizabeth 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
https://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.htmCharlayne 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.htmAnne 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.htmlMary 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.htmlKatherine 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-rightsBarbara 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_KellerElena 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-1Margaret 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.htmMary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
http://www.historyswomen.com/1stWomen/MaryLyon.htmDolley 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.htmMary 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.htmEdna 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/160Maria 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_MitchellLucretia 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_MottFlorence 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.htmlEmmy 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.htmGeorgia 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.htmlMichelle 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-1Jeannette 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.htmlMarilla 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.htmSally 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.htmJ. 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.htmlMaria 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.htmSojourner 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.htmlHarriet 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.htmDorothy 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.htmlAlice 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=aliceWatersLaura 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_WilderEmma 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.shtmlWomen's History Month Quiz - https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-history-quiz-4082540
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/quizzes/
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