These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the Chicago Metro History Fair (formerly CMHEC) NHD 2017 theme-related topic ideas. The links lead to resources from the Primary Source Nexus and the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.
Chicago Women’s Clubs reform (Insane Asylum, Chicago Fire, Juvenile Court, discrimination)
- Annals of the Chicago Woman’s Club for the first forty years of its organization 1876-1916
- A Famous Club: Chicago Woman’s Club Celebrates Twenty-fifth Anniversary The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.), 20 Feb. 1901
- Chicago Woman’s Club Gives Object Lesson for Others The San Francisco (San Francisco [Calif.]), 25 July 1904
- Women’s Department (Cook County Insane Asylum & Chicago Women’s Club) The Midland Monthly Volume 8, No. 5 November, 1897
- Women’s City Club May Come into Its Own The Sun (New York [N.Y.]), 17 Feb. 1918
- Today in History: Great Chicago Fire
- Introduction to Clubwomen & The General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) National Women’s History Museum
- Women’s clubs primary source set
- General Federation of Women’s Clubs primary source set
- General Federation of Women’s Clubs historic newspaper coverage
- Primary Source Spotlight: Black Women’s Clubs
Women at the World’s Fair
- A Souvenir of World’s Fair Women and Wives of Prominent Officials Connected with the World’s Columbian Exposition 1892
- Samantha at the World’s Fair by Josiah Allen’s wife (Marietta Holley)
- Woman’s Building, World Columbian Exposition 1893 (photo)
- Women in Session: First Meeting of the World’s Congress Auxiliary Rock Island Daily Argus (Rock Island, Ill.), 15 May 1893
- Short Skirts and Bloomers The Indianapolis (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 21 May 1893
- The Great Fair at Chicago The Indianapolis (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 21 May 1893
- Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition 2012/03/02 (streaming webcast)
Suffrage Activism
- Primary Source Spotlight: Ida B. Wells
- Primary Source Spotlight: Frances Willard & the WCTU
- Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Justice of the Peace of Evanston, Ill. (portrait)
- Catherine Waugh McCulloch historic newspaper coverage
- Catherine Waugh McCullough historic newspaper coverage
- Open Collections Program: Women Working, Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch Harvard University
- Grace Wilbur Trout (portrait)
- Board of Directors National League of Women Voters–Chicago Convention (photograph)
- Told her the bill was lost. She cried (illustration)
- Grace Wilbur Trout historic newspaper coverage
- Grace Wilbur Trout (brochure) Iowa Digital Library (brochure)
- Grace Wilbur Trout (bio) Jacksonville Historical Society
- Julia Lathrop primary source set
- Julia Lathrop historic newspaper coverage
- Justice, Not Pity: Julia Lathrop, First Chief of the U.S. Children’s Bureau streaming webcast
- Julia Lathrop and the Children’s Bureau U.S. National Library of Medicine
ERA
- Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House
- Activist Phyllis Schafly wearing a “Stop ERA” badge 1977 Feb. 4
- ERA newspaper page (.pdf) St. Petersburg Times October 17, 1979 (bibliographic record)
- The Equal Rights Amendment : guaranteeing equal rights for women under the Constitution June, 1981
- The impact of the Equal Rights Amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate 1985
- Equal Rights Amendment legislation 1973 – present
- Brief introduction to the failed Equal Rights Amendment
- Betty Friedan
Margaret Haley
- Margaret Haley historic newspaper coverage
- Margaret Haley (bio) PBS
- Report, showing results of fifteen years of organization, to the teachers of Chicago 1908 Chicago Teachers’ Federation
- Chicago Teachers’ Federation historic newspaper coverage
- Historical sketch of the CTF Chicago Historical Society/Chicago History Museum
John Dewey
- John Dewey, education historic newspaper coverage
- Woman Suffrage By Prof. John Dewey (1909 newspaper clipping)
- John Dewey’s Logical Theory (1919 dissertation)
- O man! Dedicated to George Santayana, John Dewey, and Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes (1943 poem broadside)
- John Dewey, Philosophy and Education The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View
- John Dewey (bio & background) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ella Flagg Young
- Ella Flagg Young primary source set
- Ella Flagg Young historic newspaper coverage
- Ella Flagg Young bio Illinois Education Association via YouTube
- Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader Joan Karen Smith 1976 Iowa State University Digital Repository
More NHD 2017 CMHEC topic ideas (Illinois / Chicago focus)
NHD 2017 topic ideas (U.S., European, & World History)
NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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