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Multimedia resources from the Library of Congress that support instruction about women's history. These resources include expert presentations, exhibitions, bibliographies, Webcasts, and other online materials.

• American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration (Exhibition) View a selection of early twentieth-century drawings of women from the Library's Cabinet of American Illustration and the Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon.
• American Memory Timeline: Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880) (Presentation) This timeline section shows how individual people have made a difference in American society. Women’s rights is a major topic in this timeline section.
• American Memory Timeline: Traveling on the Overland Trails (1843-1860) (Presentation) This timeline section features stories of pioneers heading West. This timeline section features several women’s diaries.
• American Memory Timeline: Women in the Union Armies (Presentation) View The Ballot and the Bullet , compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt.
• American Memory Timeline: Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era (Presentation) This timeline section features early 20th century women's rights documents.
• Blondie Gets Married (Exhibition) Enjoy this selection of Chic Young's original Blondie comic strips.
• Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview (Prints and Photographs) Information about and links to 1936 Dorothea Lange photographs documenting migrant farm worker life in Nipomo, California.

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• First Ladies of the United States: Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress (Prints and Photographs) Links to images selected from the Prints and Photographs collections.
• Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies (Webcast) Listen to six women’s views on globalization topics from the Library of Congress November, 2000 panel discussion.
• The History of Household Technology With Constance Carter (Webcast) Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress, describes the evolution in the technology of washing machines, irons, and stoves and its effect on the work of women in the home.
• Life Lines: The Literature of Women (Webcast) View the March, 2001 International Women’s Day symposium webcast in which participants read from their works about the discrimination faced by women in various parts of the world.
• Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture (Exhibition) Explore the major themes in the life and work of Margaret Mead, noted American anthropologist and writer, through this online exhibition.
• Native American Women Writers Discuss New Book, Sister Nations (Webcast) View the March, 2003 webcast of editors and writers discussing this anthology of fiction, prose and poetry celebrating Native American women.
• The Northern Great Plains: Women Pioneers (Presentation) View photographs documenting the life and activities of women pioneers.
• Pages from Her Story (Online Activity) Read women's perceptions of historic times and events in the reflections, hopes and dreams they recorded in diaries, journals, memoirs, reminiscences, letters, and speeches.
• A Petal From the Rose (Exhibition) Explore the life and work of Elizabeth Shippen Green, early 20th century illustrator.

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• Pictorial Americana: Women's Rights, 1859-1913 (Prints and Photographs) These images relate to the women's rights theme.
• Picture Pathfinder - Women's History (Prints and Photographs) This pathfinder provides suggested vocabulary terms to use when searching the American Memory collections for women's history items.
• Primary Source Investigation (Document) Use this primary source investigation strategy as a way for students to examine documents and think critically about their meaning. Themes include Civil War, reform movements, Harlem Renaissance and presidential campaigns. Suffrage documents are included in the Reform set.
• Profiles: Selected Leaders of the National Woman's Party (Presentation) Learn about prominent leaders and organizers of the militant wing of the American women's suffrage movement.
• Progress of a People: Contributions to the Nation: Work Among Our Women (Presentation) Listen to an audio excerpt from Mary Church Terrell’s pamphlet, Progress of a People.
• Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium (Webcast) Watch streaming video presentations of the 31 speakers who participated in the June, 2003 Library of Congress symposium highlighting current research in the field of women's history.
• Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II (Prints and Photographs) These images from the Prints and Photographs collections were issued by the U.S. government or by commercial sources during World War II.
• Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII (Webcast) Sheridan Harvey, Women's Studies Specialist, explores the evolution of "Rosie the Riveter" in this Journeys and Crossings webcast.
• Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage (Prints and Photographs) Links to images selected from the Prints and Photographs collections.
• Votes for Women: Timeline – One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage (Presentation) This timeline will be helpful when studying the women’s suffrage campaign.

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• The Water-Babies (Exhibition) Discover Jessie Willcox Smith's imaginative illustrations published in Dodd, Mead and Company's 1916 edition of The Water-Babies.
• Women at War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (Presentation) Read first-hand accounts of women who participated in the war effort, from nurses to code-breakers to welders, flight surgeons and officers.
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII (Exhibition) Learn the stories of eight women who served their country "on the front" during World War II.
• Women in the Sciences (Science Reference Services) Use this tracer bullet and the African-American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines guide for helpful research tips.
• Women Pioneers (Presentation) Learn about women who forged ahead to make a better life for themselves, their families, and their societies.
• Women Who Dare (Webcast) View the seven authors of theWomen Who Dare series discussing their books about remarkable women who have shaped American history.
• Women's Activities During the Civil War: A Select List of Photographs (Prints and Photographs) This gallery includes images of women who, individually or as members of organizations, engaged in activities in support of the Union or Confederate war effort.
• Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger and Jane Addams (Webcast) Editors Mary Lynn McCree Bryan and Esther Katz discuss the publication of the first two volumes in the Sanger and Addams Papers Projects, both published by the University of Illinois Press.
• Women's History Month (Presentation) Celebrate this March with Library of Congress, National Archives, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum resources.
• Women's History (Internet Resources) Selected Internet resources on the topic of women's history.

• Words and Deeds: Women (Presentation) This selection of primary sources will be useful in women’s history studies.
• Zora Neale Hurston Chronology (Presentation) This chronology accompanies the Zora Neale Hurston Plays collection which features ten recently discovered unpublished plays.

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