Recommended Women's  History Websites

Below find a list of websites all of which have some (varying) value to the study of world women's history. Several are the product of one non-professional's personal point of view; a few others are the result of a great many professional historians and graphic designers working together. Some may have changed since they were selected in 2000.

Ancient World Women

• Diotima: Material For the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
• Women's Life in Ancient Greece and Rome
• 9000 Years of Anatolian Woman

 European Women

• Sybils! An Exploration of Women in the Middle Ages and   Renaissance
• Women Writers of the Middle Ages
• Early Music by Women Composers (Byzantine-Early Classical Western Music)
• Dominion and Domination: The Lives of Medieval Women (student site)
• The Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen
• The Emancipation of (British) Women, 1860-1920
• Nightingale Letters
• Victorian Web: Women's History

American Women: individual sites all with a clear focus and academically worth reviewing

• African-American Women On-line Archival Collection
• A Mid-Wife's Tale
• Women in America, 1820-1842
• Gody's Lady's Book Online
• Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1862
• Civil War Women: Duke Online Archival Collections
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920
• "She is More to be Pitied Than Censured"
• Living the Legacy: the Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
• Votes For Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921
• 75 Suffragists
• Susan B Anthony Center History of Women's Suffrage
• Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
• General Federation of Women's Clubs
• The Emma Goldman Papers and Site
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II
• Women at War: Redstone's WWII Female Production Soldiers
• What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
• American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!
• All-Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-54
• Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics
• Center for American Woman and Politics
• National Organization for Women Homepage
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke On-line
• Women Inventors


FYI: Links to Links: Useful for looking for alternative website possibilities

• H-GIG Women's History WWW Links
• WWW Women History Links   Please not that many of these links are to sites of little academic value; use only as a large links list some of which could be appropriate for review
• Multimedia Sites in US Women's History


Recommended Search Engine: While a number of online search engines work well, Google remains the choice of most academics for identifying academically-worthwhile online sites quickly. So try it first.