United States - State and Local History

Early California (1849) through the eyes of women, in books, letters, journals and other writings.

Florence Wald, Sophie Tucker and others are among the inductees at this site honoring Connecticut women.

Article by Jo Freeman on the 1928 election of Ruth Bryan Owen to Congress, and her political career before and after that election. (Her daughter, Helen Rudd Owen Brown, ran for Congress from California in 1958 and 1960.)

Jo Freeman (2000) details the 19th century origins of Republican women's service, focusing on efforts of J. Ellen Foster.

Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony Amendment, January 6, 1920, making Kentucky the 24th state to ratify.

Biographies of women in Louisiana history, plus a timeline of Louisiana women's history.

From Rutgers, a web site with documents, images, facts, classroom ideas and bibliographies for studying New Jersey women's history.

From the Library of Congress, a photo of women attaching pro-woman suffrage posters to a telephone pole.

1912 photograph of a women's suffrage storefront office, asking men to give women "a square deal."