United States - State and Local History

Sites honoring women of a state or women's history in that state: for instance, Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

California: Women's First-Personal Narratives
Early California (1849) through the eyes of women, in books, letters, journals and other writings.

Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
Florence Wald, Sophie Tucker and others are among the inductees at this site honoring Connecticut women.

Florida: Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman
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.)

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

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

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

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

New Jersey: Suffrage Campaign Days
From the Library of Congress, a photo of women attaching pro-woman suffrage posters to a telephone pole.

Ohio: African-American Experience in Ohio 1850 - 1920
A digital collection of materials on black history in Ohio.

Ohio: Suffrage Headquarters, Cleveland
1912 photograph of a women's suffrage storefront office, asking men to give women "a square deal."

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