American
Women's Historyprovides
links to biographical dictionaries, manuscripts, and historical sites
about
women in American history.http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-bio.html

BBC:
History - Historic Figures briefly describes women and men from
different centuries, provides links to more information, timelines, and
related links.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/index.shtml

Discovery:
Women of the Century organized
alphabetically, by category, and by
decades, brief profiles and links to additional information about women
who have had an impact these 100 years are listed.http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/

Female
Ancestorsoffers links to women of the past and
to other websites to aid in further research.http://www.female-ancestors.com/

HyperHistory:
Famous Women: provides a timeline with hyperlinks to
short
biographical information about famous women throughout time.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/women.html

Internet
Women's History Sourcebook:"This sourcebook attempts to present online documents and
secondary
discussions
which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women
within
broadly defined historical periods and areas." Ranging from ancient to
modern history, "great women" of each area are cited.http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

National Women's
History Museum: biographies provides links to biographies
about women throughout time who have contributed to improving the
quality of women's lives and, in turn, society. Sorted alphabetically
and by categories.

Notable
American Unitarians is an online "project of the First Parish and the First Church in
Cambridge
(Unitarian Universalist) is based on research concerning some
representative women and men who made significant contributions to life
in the quarter-century 1936-1961. This period runs from the time of a
report, Unitarians Face a New Age, to the beginning of the
Unitarian Universalist Association."

African
American Inventorsprofiles 9 women and men and their
inventions
(provided by Brittanica)http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/africanam.htm

African
American Womenaccounts
of slavery.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html

African
American Women Scientist:
Browse
the Index of Women profiled by the Faces of Science: African Americans
in the Sciences project. Includes biographies and references.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/women.html

American
Slave Narratives contains narratives from former slaves that
were
interviewed between 1936 to 1938.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Daughters
of Eve Networkprovides
profiles and links to 30 African American women who "have earned
achievement
in the art, dance, music, literature, television, theatre and many
other
genres."
http://www.doenetwork.com/garden/education/

Harmon
collection: Breaking
Racial Barriers consists of a number of African American biographies
(women
and men).http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/

Linksto
information on African American women, women's achievements through
history
and the international biography index.http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/resource/biographies.html

Virtual American
Biographies:Over 30,000
personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures,
and exceptional life stories.
http://virtualology.com/famousamericans.net/

Voices
from the Gapsan
instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of
women
writers of color. It is designed to be used as a curricular project and
to allow readers to learn about the vast number of women writers of
color
including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Zora Neale Hurston.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

UGA
African American Studies provides brief biographical sketches
of
several key figures (women and men) in African American history.
http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/History.html

Diotima serves
as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of
gender
around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among
instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient
world.
A thorough bibliography lists biographies, various topics, Egyptian,
Greek,
Roman, religious and cultural issues.
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

Women
in Aviation and Space History profiles more than 40 women who
have
participated and contributed as pilot pioneers, racers, and commerical
airlines.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/women_aviators/womenavsp.htm

Women
in Aviation History: "Since
the Wright Brothers took flight in 1903, women have made a significant
contribution to aviation. The following is just a small sampling of the
contributions women have made to the field of aviation." Provided
by the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots.
http://www.ninety-nines.org/bios.html

Civil
War Biographies eleven women are amongst the biographies about
some of the major personalities involved in the American Civil
War.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/biograph.htm

Civil
War Womenweb
site provides biographical information, on-line archival resources, and
information about some women involved in the Civil War.
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Civil War Women
includes biographies and stories about more than 100
women of the Civil War era. Profiles include information about how they
lived, what they did to survive, and how they fought for women's rights.

http://civilwarwomen.blogspot.com/

Remember
the Ladies:
The
focus is on women during the Civil War who were spies, nurses,
physicians,
soldiers, writers, lawyers, and publishers.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4678/kate.html/

Female
Heroes from the Time of the Crusades: Included
is Shagrat (or Shajarat) al-Durr; Eleanor of Aquitaine; The Women Left
Behind; Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem; and Anna Comnena, Byzantine
Historian.
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html

HerStory --Gold
RushWomen
in the Gold Rush includes diaries, stories, and information
about
women in the Gold Rush. http://claim.goldrush.com/~joann/

Gale
Group -- profiles 50 notable Hispanic American men and
women
who've made a difference in the arts, entertainment, sports, world
affairs,
human rights and history.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/bio.htm

Las
Mujereslinks
and includes details about 13 women who are leaders, authors, singers,
or artists.
http://www.lasmujeres.com/

Making
Face, Making Soul.. Chicana
feminist homepage includes paragraphs about many "Chicanas,
Chingonas...are
those Chicanas and Latinas who have made significant professional,
educational,
and cultural achievements."
http://chicanas.com/chingonas.html

HerStory -- IndigenousNative
American Authors is part of the Internet Public Library
that cites brief descriptions of contemporary women and men,their works, and their tribe.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/

HerStory -- MedievalMedieval
Women: Includes
biographies of Hildagard von Bingen, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich,
and
the Troubadors.
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

Women's
Contributions to the Navy Observatorydetails
some of the key contributions of women to the US Naval Observatory in
the
early years. It's description begins by reporting gender based pay and
opportunities for these early astronomers, scientists, and
mathematicians.
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/women_history/moreintro.html

HerStory -- Military,
VeteransAmerican
Women in Uniform: There
are more than two million women veterans. "From the American Revolution
to Operation Allied Force around Kosovo, women have served in some way
in every conflict. Not that they were legal in the early days. History
tells us that thirty three thousand women served in World War One and
almost
500,000 took part in World War Two. During the Korean era 120,000 women
were in uniform and seven thousand were deployed in theater during Viet
Nam. During Desert Storm seven per cent of the total US forces deployed
were women - over forty thousand of them. So on these pages you will
find
the history and accomplishments of those women who have served this
country
- voluntarily - since it's beginning." Created by Captain Barbara A.
Wilson,
USAF (Ret). These pages were launched May 1996. http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/

HerStory -- Politics,
LawWomen's
Legal History Biography Projectdeveloped
by students at Stanford Law School, includes pioneer profiles,
biographical
chapters, articles, and other information about more than a hundred
women
in the legal profession.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/

75
Suffragists: Provides
brief paragraphs about women active in the suffragist movement. "Most
of
the information here comes directly from the wonderful 4-volume set,
Notable
American Women. If your interest is stirred by any of these profiles,
check
out the fuller biographies in this library mainstay available from the
National Women's History Project."
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/75-suffragists.html

Photographs
from the records of the National Women's Party Photographs and
profiles of members, activities, and events documenting the National
Woman’s Party’s push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as
its later campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment are
available. This online photographs span from about 1875 to 1938 ,
including 448 photographs from the approximately 2,650 photographs in
the Records of the National Woman’s Party collection, housed in the
Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/profiles.html

Votes
for Women: Suffrage
Collection provides biographies, documents, and information about this
1848-1921 US American movement.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

Domestic
Westpresents narratives of six women who made the
westward
journey
using diaries and journals, letters, travel records, and memoirs to
represent
the voices of Eliza, Emily, and the more. Sorted by writer, topic,
year,
and geography.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/domwest.html

Western
Women's Autobiographies Databasethe stories of
twenty-five
women
are available to the reader. The list includes Mary Crow Dog, Angela
Davis,
Maxine Hong Kingston, and Katherine Anne Porter.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/389/noframes/front.html

WestWeb:
Biographies
of 20 Western women (including Calamity Jane, Lucille Mullhal, and
Dolores
Huerta) is provided as well as links to western web sites.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/women.html#Bio

Witchcraft:
17th
Century New England: provides links to information with
historical
perceptions of witchcraft in Europe and the Americas, including methods
of detection and the people who were persecuted, not with modern-day
Wicca.

http://www.17thc.us/index.php?id=12

Notable
Women
Ancestors: Witches has biographical information about 16
women who
were false accused of witchcraft. Also includes links to websites with
additional insights into the era of witchcraft.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/witch.html

HerStory -- World
War IIWASP
World War IImilitary
history, women's' contribution to World War II, and to Aviation.
Provides
biographies, photos, and a multitude of information about these heroic
women.
http://www.wasp-wwii.org/

Women
Come to the Front: Journalists,
photographers, and broadcasters during World War II
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

Women
Pilots in World War IIbiographies are provided by the National Museum of the US Air
Force,
profiling women classified as WASP, WAFS, and WFTD members who
contributed during this international conflict.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1506