Collections Spotlight: Women’s History
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Teaching resources
Primary source sets
- A look back at female police officers image set
- Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage collections
- Women in Science & Technology select primary sources & teacher’s guide
- Woman’s Land Army of America
Activists
- Jane Addams
- Susan B. Anthony
- Clara Barton and the Red Cross
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
- Carrie S. Burnham
- Shirley Chisholm
- Dorothea Dix
- Betty Friedan
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Emma Goldman
- Helen Keller
- Belva Lockwood
- Carrie Nation
- Patsy Mink
- Lucretia Mott
- Rosa Parks
- Alice Paul
- Frances Perkins
- Jeannette Rankin
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Mary Church Terrell
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Ida B. Wells
- Frances Willard & the WTCU
Artists
- The Alcotts
- Marian Anderson
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Esther Bubley
- Emily Dickinson
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Dorothy and Lillian Gish
- Martha Graham
- Julia Ward Howe
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins
- Dorothea Lange
- Jenny Lind
- Gabriela Mistral
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Patricia Smith
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Gertrude Stein
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sarah Winnemucca
Trailblazers
- American Female Pilots
- Constance Baker Motley
- Marie Curie
- Althea Gibson & Tennis
- Fannie Farmer & Cooking
- Julia Archibald Holmes, Mountaineer
- Libby Riddles & the Iditarod
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Susie King Taylor: The Courage of an African American Nurse and Teacher
- Kathy Whitworth, Champion Golfer
- First Ladies
- Gibson Girls
- Historical Women in STEM
- Influential Latinas
- Mothers
- Teachers
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II
Library collections
- Hannah Arendt Papers
- The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
- By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
- Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party
- Women Photojournalists
- Works by Civil War Era African American Women
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, 1925-1944
Image sets
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs
- Esther Bubley’s Photographs
- First Ladies of the United States – Selected Images
- Photographs of Women During the Civil War – Selected Images
- Pictorial Americana: Women’s Rights – Selected Images
- Rosie Pictures: American Women Workers During World War II – Selected Images
- Suffrage Images
- Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
- Women
Chronicling America Topic Guides: timelines & select newspaper articles
- Alice Paul (1910-1922)
- Alma Boone Little (1914-1915)
- American Female Pilots (1911-1921)
- Anna May Wong (1921-1961)
- Bachelor Maids (1894-1915)
- Belle Boyd (1862-1900)
- Amelia Bloomer (1851-1897)
- Bloomer Girls Baseball (1897-1909)
- Bessie Coleman (1921-1926)
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1900-1920)
- Carrie Nation (1900-1911)
- Clara Barton (1881-1904)
- Constance Kopp (1914-1916)
- Crystal Eastman (1909-1920)
- Dollar Princesses (1874-1910)
- Dorothy Dix (1904-1920)
- Edith Wilson (1896-1920)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1850-1912)
- Emma Goldman: McKinley Assassination Conspirator? (1901)
- Female Spies in World War I (1915-1922)
- Flappers (1919-1922)
- Frances Cleveland (1885-1891)
- The Gibson Girl (1895-1908)
- Golden Flyer Suffragettes (1916)
- Harriet Quimby (1911-1912)
- Harriet Tubman (1869-1913)
- Helen Bertram. Prima donna of comic opera. (1887-1908)
- Helen Keller (1888-1920)
- Hello Girls (1898-1922)
- Ida B. Wells (1892-1909)
- Jane Addams (1905-1920)
- Katherine Stinson (1912-1921)
- The Kidnapping of Ellen Stone (1901-1902)
- Margaret Sanger (1915-1922)
- Maria Tallchief (1942-1959)
- Mother Jones (1994-1921)
- Mother’s Day (1909-1922)
- Nellie Bly (1887-1922)
- Nina Otero-Warren (1908-1922)
- Pauli Murray (1938-1963)
- Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
- Rose O’Neill, The Kewpie Lady (1902-1944)
- Sissieretta Jones: African-American Soprano (1889-1911)
- Susan B Anthony (1883-1920)
- Theda Bara (1915-1921)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911-1914)
- Typhoid Mary (1907-1915)
- Victoria Woodhull (1871-1908)
- Zitkala-Sa (1900-1938)
Special presentations
- Pages from Her Story
- Timeline: One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
- Timeline: Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
- Timeline: Traveling on the Overland Trails (1843-1860)
- Women Pioneers
- Timeline: Women in the Union Armies
- Timeline: Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era
Online exhibitions
- American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
- Blondie Gets Married
- Canadian Counterpoint: Illustrations by Anita Kunz
- Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- A Colored Women in a White World: Mary Church Terrell
- Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine: Two Kids from Brooklyn
- The Diary of a Confederate Woman
- The Gibson Girl’s America
- Humor’s Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
- I Love Lucy: An American Legend
- Jazz Singers
- Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
- #Opera Before Instagram: Portraits, 1890-1955
- Petal From the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
- Politics and the Dancing Body
- The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
- The Woman’s Bible
- Women and the War Effort
- Women’s Trade Union Seal
- Women’s War Relief
- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters During WWII
Veterans History Project resources
- The WASP: First in Flight
- Women of Four Wars
- Women Serving in Combat: A Panel Discussion
- Women at War
Library blog posts
4 Corners of the World
- Reflections on Symbols of Women’s History in Modern Context
- Taytu Betul: The Cunning Empress of Ethiopia
Headlines & Heroes
- Alice Guy-Blaché: Cinema’s First Woman Director in Newspapers
- Anne Newport Royall’s Paul Pry
- Astronomer Maria Mitchell
- Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert
- Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: Premier Nuclear Physicist
- Dr. Margaret Chung: First American Born Chinese Woman Physician
- Elsie de Wolfe: America’s First Interior Designer
- Eva Tanguay, the “I Don’t Care Girl”
- Gertrude “Ma” Rainey in Newspapers
- Gladys Pyle: American Trailblazer & “Ultra Modern” Woman
- Historical Women in STEM
- How Ayn Rand Wielded the Press and Publishing
- Mabel Stark: World Famous Trainer of Big Jungle Cats
- Marguerite Harrison: Debutante, Newspaperwoman, and Undercover Spy
- Maria Tallchief: Osage Prima Ballerina
- Mary Pickford in the Press
- Radium Girls: Living Dead Women
- Rose O’Neill: Artist, Activist, and Queen of Kewpies
- Sissieretta Jones: World-Famous Black Soprano
- Toni Stone: First Woman to Play Big-League Baseball
- Women Who Dressed as Men and Made History
- Women of Winter Sports: The First U.S. Olympic Ski Medalists
In Custodia Legis
- Equal Pay Day in Germany
- Kvennafridagurinn – The Day Icelandic Women Went on Strike
- Promoting the General Welfare: Frances Perkins
- Women in History: Lawyers and Judges (international)
- Women in History: Elected Representatives
- Women in History: Voting Rights
- Women in History Month
- Women in History Month
In the Muse
- 200 Years of Clara Schumann
- Alice Eversman, Elena de Sayn, and the Washington, D.C. music scene
- Barbara Strozzi at 400
- The Belle Brown Collection: An American Opera Student at the Turn of the 20th Century
- Celebrating Bessie Smith: “Empress of the Blues”
- Debbi Dee: Passing on the Art of Tap Dancing
- Debbi Dee: Passing on the Art of Tap Dancing, Part 2
- Discovering Composer Amanda Maier
- Discovering the Music within our Dance collections: Composer Lucia Dlugoszewski and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company
- Documenting Jessye Norman’s “Sacred Ellington” Concerts
- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge @ 150
- Ethel Smyth and “The March of the Women”
- Fanny Mendelssohn: A Pre-Hensel Tale
- Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre No. 1
- The Geraldine Farrar Collection
- Gershwin Prize 2013: Carole King
- Going for Baroque with Wanda Landowska
- Happy Birthday Abbey (Lincoln)!
- Happy Birthday to Amy Beach!
- Harriet Hoctor: Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
- Hazel Scott, now playing!
- Helen McGehee (1921-2020), a commemoration in pictures
- Jeanine Tesori and Tony Awards
- Johanna Beyer: A Composer Forgotten
- Lakecia Benjamin: 2023 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar
- The Lost Treasures of Wanda Landowska
- “Loudly applauded”: Composer Louise Angélique Bertin
- Louise Talma
- Mary Cardwell Dawson: First Lady of Opera
- Mary Hallock Greenewalt: Rembrandt of the Piano
- In Memory of Patty Andrews and the Andrews Sisters
- Party Like It’s 1587 for Mrs. Coolidge
- Remembering Angela Lansbury
- Remembering Mrs. Coolidge in Coolidge Auditorium
- She Shanties: songbooks from women composers
- Shirley Horn: D.C.’s Own
- Sister Gregory Duffy: An Asset to the Abbey and the Theater
- (Some of) The Outstanding Women of Arsis Press
- Tania León: The Uncommon Woman
- Thea Musgrave and the Dramatic Element
- Tracing Augusta Browne in the Library of Congress
- Vicomtesse Marie de Grandval: A composer with pen names galore
- Who Was Maia Bang Hohn?
- Women Composers Hidden in Plain Sight
- The Women of Warner/Chappell
- Women We’ve Commissioned
- Women’s History Month: Women Composers in the Music Division
- Women’s History Month: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- Women’s History Month: Katherine Dunham
- You Oughta Be in Pictures, Dana Suesse!
Inside Adams
- Alice Foote MacDougall and her (not so) Little Coffee Shop
- And She Became Mother Jones
- By Women and For Women
- Celebrating Librarian Extraordinaire Ruth S. Freitag
- Celebrate Women (Part 2- Women in Science and Engineering)
- Celebrate Women! (part 1)
- Diving in the Deep with Gloria Hollister
- Emily Greene Balch: Economist, Sociologist, Pacifist, and Nobel Laureate
- The Enchantress of Number
- Entrepreneur, Pioneer, and Philanthropist Clara Brown
- Fabulous Women in History
- The First Lady Astronaut Trainees
- Henrietta Leavitt, How She Loved the ‘Clouds’
- Hidden Figures No More: African American Women in Space Exploration
- Honoring African American Contributions in Medicine: The Black Angels
- Honoring African American Contributions in Medicine: Midwives
- Honoring African American Contributions in Medicine: Nurses
- Honoring African Americans: Historic Women Trailblazers and Advocacy Organizations
- A “Jewell” in the Adams Building: Jewell Mazique
- Josephine Aspinwall Roche: A Changemaker You’ve Likely Never Heard of!
- Margaret Rossiter and the Matilda Effect
- Nannie Helen Burroughs and her “most creditable work”
- A Pioneering Science Educator
- (Re)Discovering Freda De Knight and Her 1948 Cookbook, “A Date with a Dish”
- Susan Fenimore Cooper: The First American Woman to Publish Nature Writing
- Unions, Feminism, and Margaret Dreier Robins
- The Very Fascinating Elizabeth J. Magie
Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Now See Hear!
Picture This
- Ann Rosener, Documenting the Home Front
- Women Architects and Designers in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collections
- Women in History
Teaching with the Library
- A Civil War Nurse’s Memoir: Discerning Women’s Experiences
- Citizenship Schools for Women in 1920
- Exploring the History of Women in STEM with Primary Sources
- Framing the Lives of Civil War Nurses
- Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part II – the Women Codebreakers of WWII
- Inventions and Innovations: the Woman who Made Buildings Safer
- Primary Sources and Women’s History Month: A Perfect Match
- Students Investigate the 19th Amendment’s Influence on the 1920 Election
- Studying Images of World War I Nurses: The Nurturer in a Red Cross Poster
- A Suffragist Poetically Asks: “Are Women People?”
- Teaching about Women’s Involvement in the History of Computer Science
- Women’s History Month: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Suffragist March of 1913 with Primary Sources
- Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Part 2: Their Service Remembered in Library of Congress Primary Sources
- Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Part 1: Going Behind the Gender Lines
Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress
- Black Dressmakers for First Ladies
- Celebrating Creative Women: Rare and Special Collections
- Celebrating Women: On Your Mark! Get Set! Mush!
- Celebrating Women’s History: Still Standing – The Story of Tammy Duckworth
- A Civil War Story: Rebecca Pomroy, Lincoln’s Nurse
- Joni Mitchell’s Conversation in the Library
- Library Photographer Carol Highsmith: Documenting the Nation’s Beauty and Resilience
- Madeleine Albright: A Life of Courage and Commitment
- Marie Tharp: Mapping the Ocean Floor
- Pics of the Week: Celebrating Women’s History
- Radio Girl and Her De Luxe Revue
- Researching Nannie Helen Burroughs: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
- Stone/Blackwell Marriage: To Love And Honor, But Not “Obey”
- Trailblazing American Women on Quarters
Unfolding History
Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps
Videos
Women in the News
- Women in the news with Adelaide Hawley 1950-10-27
- Women in the news with Betty Gray November 1950
Women Writers Webcasts
- Isabel Allende
- Rae Armantrout
- Maria Celeste Arrarás
- Judy Blume
- Donna Britt
- Sandra Cisneros
- Patricia Cornwell
- Anna Dewdney
- Kirstin Downey
- Ree Drummond
- Maria Dueñas
- Margarita Engle
- Kathleen Ernst
- Linda Greenhouse
- Joy Harjo
- Charlaine Harris
- Ellen Hopkins
- Eloisa James
- Tayari Jones
- Margot Livesey
- Adele Logan Alexander
- Lois Lowry
- Melissa Marr
- Andrea Mitchell
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Pat Mora
- Shelia Moses
- Anna Mwalagho
- Azar Nafisi
- Michele Norris
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Nell Irvin Painter
- Patricia Polacco
- Anna Quindlen
- Esmé Raji Codell
- Cokie Roberts
- Marilynne Robinson
- Laura Amy Schlitz
- Lisa Scottoline
- Patricia Smith
- Rebecca Stead
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Susan Tejada
- Raina Telgemeier
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
More woman-focused recorded webcast videos
- Afghan Women’s Stories: the Problematics of Cover
- American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
- Catch the Suffragists’ Spirit: The Millers’ Suffrage Scrapbooks
- Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
- Frances Perkins, the Woman Behind FDR
- Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
- Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies
- Legislating in Heels–An Anecdotal Journal: The Honorable Constance Connie Morella
- In the Mediterranean Mode: Israeli Women Composers
- A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
- My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran
- Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII
- A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances
- Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women’s Emancipation
- Using Fair Trade Principles to Empower Women in Northern Uganda
- Women in Iran: Past, Present and Future
- Women from the Nigerien Sahel
- Women in the Persian Gulf War
- Women in Science and Engineering
- Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet
- Women Who Dare
- The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin
- Women’s Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger & Jane Addams
- Women’s History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
- Women’s History Month Celebration: Women’s Art — Women’s Vision
Teaching History Her Way podcast