Women's History

Learn about the half of history missing from many history books with biographies, articles, timelines and other resources on the women—famous and lesser-known—who have shaped our world.

  • A campus building at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
    A Brief History of Women in Higher Education
  • The Women of the Women's Policy Union of New York State heading to New Jersey on a rented Tugboat to encourage voting rights for women
    Women’s Rights in the 1930s in the U.S.
  • Emerson lecturing in Concord
    What Is Transcendentalism?
  • Caricature of American suffragist Victoria Woodhull by Thomas Nast
    Free Love and Women's History
  • Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign.
    The Glass Ceiling and Women's History
  • Martha Corey
    The Victims of the Salem Witch Trials
  • Women Spinning Linen Yarn
    Women and Work in Early America
  • Margaret Fuller
    The Women of Transcendentalism
  • Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist, c1900. Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913) was born into slavery in America. She escaped in 1849, became a leading Abolitionist and was active as a 'conductor' in the Underground Railroad, the network which helped escaped slaves to reach safety.
    Combahee River Collective in the 1970s
  • Rousseau and his wife, engraving depicting his last words
    Rousseau's Take on Women and Education
  • Balance Scale with man and woman
    The Fight for Women's Rights in the Past and Present
  • U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    What Is Women's History?
  • Historical photo of woman at Barnard
    The Seven Sisters Colleges
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Consanguinity and Medieval Marriages
  • Hildegard of Bingen, from the Eibingen Abbey
    Abbesses in Women's Religious History
  • Residents of Hull House in the dining room, about 1920
    Hull House
  • Chart from Google's Ngram tool showing use of woman suffrage vs. women's suffrage in books, 1800 to 2000.
    Clarifying the Terms "Woman" and "Women"
  • portrait of two women holding each other on the couch
    Boston Marriage: Women Living Together, 19th/20th Century Style
  • Salem Witch Trial
    Rev. George Burroughs and the Salem Witch Trials
  • Lucy Stone with daughter Alice Stone Blackwell
    Mother's Day: A History of Celebrations
  • Dior models, late 1960s
    The Definition of the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
  • Lady Godiva by John Maler Collier, about 1898
    Lady Godiva's Famous Ride Through Coventry
  • Rush Limbaugh
    21 Quotes About Anti-Feminism
  • Black and white photo of a girls' high school basketball team.
    History of Women's Basketball in America
  • U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Why We Celebrate Women's History Month
  • Painting of Pocahontas saving John Smith.
    Fact or Fiction: Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith's Life?
  • Title page of Bradstreet's poems, 1678
    The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
  • Charles and Diana at St Paul's Cathedral, London
    British Royal Weddings from Victoria to Meghan Markle
  • Women's March on Versailles, 1789
    A History of the Women's March on Versailles
  • Bridget Bishop Hanged at Salem
    Overview of the Title "Goody" During the Salem Witch Trials
  • A gold statue of Themis features a blindfold and the scales of justice in her left hand
    Themis, Goddess of Justice
  • Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama and Cathy McMorris Rodgers honor women veterans and retired Air Force Brigadier Gen. Wilma Vaught
    Celebrate Women's History Month
  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahari, Luxor, Egypt,
    How Did Hatshepsut Die?
  • African American woman looking in mirror
    Subjectivity in Women's History and Gender Studies
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
    Feme Sole and Women's Rights
  • Depiction of Queen Victoria on the throne in her coronation robes
    The History of the Title of Queen
  • Cracked family statue
    How Did Feminism Lead to Programs for Displaced Homemakers?
  • Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam
    A Timeline of Women in Aviation
  • Andromache intercepting Hector at the Scaean Gate
    Who Was Andromache?
  • Young woman at home
    Holiday Albums by Female Artists
  • Court Records - Marriage Records, Wills
    Patrilineal vs. Matrilineal Succession
  • Catherine of Aragon, by artist Lucas Horenbout
    Catherine of Aragon - Marriage to Henry VIII
  • Poster promoting universal suffrage, 1893, United Kingdom
    What Does Suffrage Mean?
  • Catherine of Aragon portrait
    Facts About Catherine of Aragon
  • Amelia Bloomer
    Profile of Amelia Bloomer
  • Catherine of Aragon, c. 1496, portrait by Juan de Flandes
    Catherine of Aragon - Early Life and First Marriage
  • Shannon Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn Sullivan, Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher, Sally Ride
    Women in Space - Timeline
  • Marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII, and Louis traveling to cruisade
    Petronilla: Learn About the Famous Sibling of Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Eugene Deveria painting of Catherine of Aragon and Cardinal Wolsey among others
    Catherine of Aragon: The King's Great Matter
  • Barons with King John and the Magna Carta
    A List of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Descendants Through John, King of England
  • Sarah Josepha Hale
    Sarah Josepha Hale
  • Chinese women playing a game together, about 1900 (unknown location)
    Nushu, a Woman-Only Language of China
  • Drawing by Wenceslaus Hollar, women's 17th century fashion history
    Women's Fashions of the 17th Century
  • Victorian temperance pledge certificate
    Teetotaller
  • Frances Dana Barker Gage
    Frances Dana Gage
  • 'Women's Liberation' In Support Of Black Panthers
    6 Quotes from ‘Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution’
  • Bewitched circa 1965
    Feminism in 1960s Sitcoms
  • The typing pool at the offices of the retailer Marks and Spencer, Baker Street, London, 7th April 1959.
    What is a Pink-Collar Ghetto?
  • Artistic rendering of Victoria Woodhull raising her arm in a room full of men and officers
    Biography of Victoria Woodhull, Women's Rights Activist
  • N.O.W. Members Picket the White House
    The Women's Movement and Feminist Activism in the 1960s
  • Suffragettes march in New York City
    Oppression and Women's History
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