Links for Further Research: Women's History - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives wishes to highlight the following selected on-line sources in Women's history.

State Archives Records in the KDLA Catalog provide descriptions of government records held at the State Archives in Frankfort. From the records of Kentucky's first woman governor, Martha Layne Collins, to the Kentucky Commission on Women records, to marriage records and court case files from every Kentucky county, the collections of the State Archives are rich with documentation of the lives of Kentucky women.

Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
Provides an annotated index to all interviews and full transcripts to selected oral history interviews. Source: Kentuckiana Digital Library.

Women in Kentucky: Our Legacy Our Future
Women in Kentucky: Our Legacy Our Future has a timeline, as well as list of achievements and contributions by Kentucky and U.S. women organized in sixteen subjects categories and divided by four Kentucky regions. The site also has a teacher's resource guide. Source: Kentucky Commission on Women, Kentucky Educational Television, and Kentucky Department of Education |

Kentucky Women Radio Project
Links to biographical information for twenty Kentucky Women, including the first African-American female White House correspondent, steamboat captain, first female coach of women's basketball team, founder of FNS. Source: University of Louisville Libraries.

University of Louisville Archives and Records Center's Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections
The collections concern the lives and careers of attorney Laura Miller Derry, poet Diane di Prima, poet Hortense Flexner, pediatrician and West Louisville neighborhood activist Grace M. James, civil rights activist and Louisville alderman Lois Morris, constitutional historian and women's rights advocate Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Louisville radio columnist and ballet co-founder Louise Weiller, and circuit court judge Rebecca Westerfield.

Women Coal Miners of Southeastern Kentucky
Offers a photo gallery and historical sketches. Source: Black Diamond Net a Bit of Coal or Rock Dust ©1997.

Women's HERstory Month
Chronicles web and television sources for women's history month, including lesson planning activities. Source: Kentucky Educational Television.

National Women's History Project
Offers several links including suggestions for bringing Women's History Month into the spotlight in schools, communities, etc.

Notable Women Ancestors
Notable Women Ancestors is filled with biographies, photos and genealogical information submitted by actual descendants or relatives of the women presented here. Women included range from the famous (Anne Marbury Hutchinson, Laura Ingalls Wilder) to everyday grandmothers and pioneers. Source: Susanne "Sam" Behling.

Women of Achievement and Herstory
Women of Achievement and Herstory is a weekly online newsletter which includes important dates in history, birth dates, and facts regarding women's role in history. Source: Irene Stuber.

Women's History
Offers an illustrated guide to Library of Congress Manuscripts and other historical resources. Source: Library of Congress.

Women 's International Center
Includes several interesting links including an extensive list of biographies of notable women (ie: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Benazir Bhutto, Helen Caldicott, Golda Meir).

19th Century American Women Writers Web
19th Century American Women Writers Web is devoted to educating visitors about these women, some of whom are famous, while others are not so well known. The site consist of texts, lectures, and links to related sources including scholarly journals such as Women Writing and The Emily Dickinson Journal. Texts are listed by author. Authors include Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis. Also included are the 1835 Constitution produced by the Boston Female Anti - Slavery Society and the National Suffrage Convention Resolutions.

4000 Years of Women in Science
Attempts to correct the misconception that women's role in science has been limited to the last three centuries. The earlist women profiled, En Hedu'anna, lived around 2354 B.C. Biographies can be searched alphabetically or chronologically, and include physicists Marie Curie and Lise Meitner, geneticist Barbara McClintock and 19th century astronomer Caterina Scarpellini. Source: Deborah Crocker and Sethanne Howard (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

Celebration of Women Writers
Celebration of Women Writers is a growing list of links to sites about women writers, including Kentucky affiliated authors bell hooks and Barbara Kingsolver . These links are not strictly biographical - they include excerpts of writings, interviews and links to other sites. Authors are listed alphabetically. Source: Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Contains links to biographies of women throughout history and across many fields, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pearl Bailey (entertainer), and the recently rediscovered Hildegard of Bingen (nun, writer, composer). Search alphabetically by name or field. Source: Danuta Bois.

Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Links to manuscript collections in Duke University's Special Collections Library and lists others which not yet been digitized. Also included are a guide to finding the history of African American women in the University's Special Collections, and links to related sites. Source: Duke University.

Women in History
Includes such features as a "Woman of the Week," weekly trivia questions, important events in Canadian Women's history, and a bibliography. Source: Susan Merritt.

Women Nobel Prize Laureates
Lists biographies of women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, including the woman who was the impetus for the Nobel Peace Prize. Each biography includes birth and death dates, country of residence and links to other information on that woman. Recipients are listed chronologically by prize category. Source: Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Women's Suffrage
Contains information about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, the women's suffrage movement and the anti-suffragists, as well as the ideas of those who opposed them. Includes a brief bibliography. Source: Meredith Goldtein-LeVande.