Women's Bibliographic Resource List II
Compiled by Trish Laski
Assisted by Stephanie Kuehn
This page provides a supplement to the list of bibliographic resources available at Archives Library and Information Center found on the
Pathfinder for Women’s History Research in the National Archives and Records Administration Library.
African-American Women
Berry, Mary Frances. My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. xiv, 314 p.
E185.97 H825 B47 2005
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. ix, 246 p.
F334 M753 P373
Gordon, Ann D. and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American women and the vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 217 p.
JK1924 A47 1997
Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson. A shining thread of hope: the history of black women in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. 355 p.
E185.86 H68 1998
Jacobs, Harriet A. The Harriet Jacobs family papers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2008. 2 v.
E444.J17 A4 2008
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of love, labor of sorrow: black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present. New York: Basic Books, 1985. xiii, 432 p.
HD6057.5 U5 J66 1985
Morgan, Jennifer. Retrieving African-American women’s history: a methodological guide to sources in the Perkins Library Manuscript Department. Durham, NC: Duke University, 1989. 30 p.
Z6611 B63 M37 1989
Powers, Georgia Davis. I shared the dream: the pride, passion, and politics of the first black woman senator from Kentucky. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1995. x, 321 p.
F456.26 P68 A3 1995
Putney, Martha S. When the nation was in need: blacks in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. ix, 231 p.
D810 N4 P88 1992
Scharff, Virginia. Twenty thousand roads: women, movement, and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003. xi, 239 p.
F596 S26 2003
Shaw, Stephanie. What women ought to be and to do: black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi, 347 p.
HD6054.2 U6 S53 1996
Smith, Susan Lynn. Sick and tired of being sick and tired: black women’s health activism in America, 1890-1950. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xi, 247 p.
RA448.5 N4 S65 1995
Bibliographies
The history of women and science, health, and technology: a bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System, Women’s Studies Librarian, 1993. vi, 100 p.
HQ1397 H57 1993
"Ianfu" kankei bunken mokuroku: a bibliography of publications on the "comfort women" issue. Tokyo: Gyosei, 1997. 227 p.
Z7963 C65 I26 1997
Butler, Deborah. American women writers on Vietnam: unheard voices: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989. 312 p.
Z1227 B88 1989
Cherpak, Evelyn. A guide to research source materials on women in the Naval Historical Collection. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2005. 77 p.
Z7963 S55 C447 2005
Cox, Elizabeth. Women in modern American politics: a bibliography, 1900-1995. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997. xvii, 414 p.
7963 P64 C69 1997
Friedl, Vicki L, compiler. Women in the United States military, 1901-1995: a research guide and annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. xx, 251 p.
UB418 W65 F75 1996
Greer, Sarah. A bibliography of civil service and personnel administration. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1935. x, 143 p.
Z1764 C6 G8
Hardy, Lyda Mary. Women in U.S. history: a resource guide. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000. xvi, 344 p.
Z7964 U49 H364 2000
Kreisel, Martha. American women photographers: a selected and annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. ix, 350 p.
Z7134 K74 1999
Lerner, Gerda. Bibliography in the history of American women. Bronxville, NY: Sarah Lawrence College, c1975. 57 p.
Z7961 L4 1975
National Archives of Canada. Women’s archives guide: manuscript sources for the history of women. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1991. v, 110.
Z7964 C36 N37 1991
Thomas, Roy R. Women in American history, 1896-1920: their manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Bowie, MD, Bowie State College, 1972. [8] l.
Z7963 H5 T6
Biographies and Reference
The Columbia documentary history of American women since 1941. New York: Columbia University Press, c2003. xiv, 690 p.
HQ1420 C65 2003
Emma Goldman: a documentary history of the American years. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003-c2005. 2 v.
HX843.7 G65 E427 2003
Encyclopedia of women in American politics. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999. xxviii, 354 p.
HQ1236.5 U6 E53 1999
Larousse dictionary of women. New York, NY: Larousse, 1996. x, 741 p.
HQ1123 L37 1996
Native American women: a biographical dictionary. New York: Routledge, 2001. xv, 396 p.
E98 W8 B38 2001
Ordinary women, extraordinary lives: women in American history. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. xix, 282 p.
CT3260 O67 2000
Voice of America interviews with eight American women of achievement : Grace Hopper, Betty Friedan, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Mary Calderone, Helen Thomas, Julia Montgomery Walsh, Maya Angelou, Nancy Clark Reynolds. Washington, DC: Voice of America, United States Information Agency, 1985. ii, 64 p.
IA1.2 V 87/8
Who’s who of American women; a biographical dictionary of notable living American women. Chicago: Marquis-Who's Who. 3 v.
CT3260 W5
Women in Congress, 1917-2006, prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives, by the Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O., 2006. v, 1008 p.
JK1030 W66 2006
Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999-. 12 v.
HQ1115 W6 1999
Women with a mission: personal perspectives. Canberra: Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2007. ix, 218 p.
JZ1990 A59 W66 2007
Working in women’s archives: researching women’s private literature and archival documents. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001. v, 120 p.
PR9188 W685 2001
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. The selected papers of Jane Addams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2003-. v. <1- >
HV28 A35 A25
Asher, Robert, et al. Archival and manuscript resources for the study of women’s history: a beginning. Minneapolis: Social Welfare History Archives Center, University of Minnesota Libraries, 1972. 42 p.
Z7965 A7 1972
Binney, Marcus. The women who lived for danger: the agents of the Special Operations Executive. New York: William Morrow, 2002. xv, 380 p.
D810 S7 B49 2002
Blackman, Ann. Seasons of her life: a biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright. New York, NY: Scribner, c1998. 398 p.
E840.8 A37 B53 1998
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. ix, 246 p.
F334 M753 P373
Burton, Shirley. Adelaide Johnson: to make immortal their adventurous will. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University Press, 1986. 93 p.
NB237 J6 B8 1986
Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. The encyclopedia of women’s history in America. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. xi, 339 p.
HQ1410 C85 1998
Davis, Allen Freeman. American heroine: the life and legend of Jane Addams. Chicago, IL: Ivan Dee, c2000. xi, 339 p.
HV28 A35 D39 2000
Fisher, Andrea. Let us now praise famous women: women photographers for the U.S. government, 1935 to 1944. New York: Pandora Press, 1987. 160 p.
TR820.5 L48 1987
Grafton, David. The sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: the life and times of the fabulous Cushing sisters. New York: Villard Books, 1992. xiv, 316 p.
CT3260 G72 1992
Harper, Judith E. Women during the Civil War: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2004. xviii, 472 p.
E628 H37 2004
Herr, Pamela. Jessie Benton Fremont: a biography. New York: F. Watts, 1987. xiii, 496 p.
E415.9 F79 H4
Herr, Pamela and Mary Lee Spence, eds. The letters of Jessie Benton Frémont. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xxxii, 595 p.
E415.9 F74 1993
Ireland, Norma Olin. Index to women of the world from ancient to modern times: biographies and portraits. Westwood, MA: F. W. Faxon Co., 1970. xxcviii, 573 p.
Z7963 B6 I73
Kamen, Paula. Finding Iris Chang: friendship, ambition, and the loss of an extraordinary mind. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. xvii, 281 p.
CT275 C463 K36 2007
Kaufman, Polly Welts. National parks and the woman’s voice: a history. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, c1996. xvi, 305 p.
SB481.5 K38 1996
Lebow, Eileen F. Before Amelia: women pilots in the early days of aviation. Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc., c2002. xi, 315 p.
TL539 L42 2002
Martin, David G. A Molly Pitcher sourcebook. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 2003. vi, 328 p.
E241 M7 M37 2003
Olds, Elizabeth Fagg. Women of the four winds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. xi, 318 p.
G225 O4
Olmsted, Kathryn S. Red spy queen: a biography of Elizabeth Bentley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2002. xiv, 268 p.
HX84 B384 O45 2002
Schenken, Suzanne O’Dea. From suffrage to the Senate: an encyclopedia of American women in politics. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. 2 v.
HQ1236.5 U6 S22 1999
Sherrow, Victoria. Women and the military: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996. xxii, 381 p.
U21.75 S54 1996
Steel, Edward M., ed. The correspondence of Mother Jones. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. xlix, 360 p.
HD8073 J6 A4 1985
Waldrup, Carole Chandler. Presidents’ wives: the lives of 44 American women of strength. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., c1989. ix, 381 p.
E 176.2 W35 1989
Wasserman, Elga R. The door in the dream: conversations with eminent women in science. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, c2000. xiv, 254 p.
QH26 W375 2000
Weatherford, Doris. American women’s history. New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, c1994. iv, 396 p.
HQ1115 W4 1994
Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Writing out my heart: selections from the journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1995. xxvii, 474 p.
HV5232 W6 W55 1995
Family and Children
Life, death and sacrifice: women and family in the Holocaust. Jerusalem; New York: Gefen, 2008. 309 p.
D804.47 L54 2008
Eales, Anne Bruner. Army wives on the American frontier: living by the bugles. Boulder: Johnson Books, c1996. xiii, 210 p.
F596 E25 1996
Schroeder, Pat. Champion of the great American family. New York: Random House, c1989. 194 p.
HQ536 S37 1989
Guides to Women’s Resources
Haber, Barbara. Women in America: a guide to books, 1965-1975. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978. xiii, 202 p.
Z7964 U49 H3
Henry, Linda J. and Jacqueline Goggin. Guide to the records of the National Council of Negro Women, 1935-1980. Washington, DC: National Archives for Black Women’s History, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National Historic Site, 1999. 118 leaves.
Z6611 B63 H4 1999
Salzmann, Katharine. Guide to resources on women in the processed manuscript collections of the Moorland-Springarn Research Center. Washington DC: Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, 1997?. 22 p.
Z6611 W6 S2 1997
Revolutionary Women
Martin, David G. A Molly Pitcher sourcebook. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 2003. vi, 328 p.
E241 M7 M37 2003
Stegeman, John F. Caty: a biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986, c1977. xxiii, 235 p.
E207 G9 S73 1986
Suffrage
Flexner, Eleanor. Century of struggle: the woman’s rights movement in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975. xiii, 405 p.
HQ1410 F6 1975
Gordon, Ann D. and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American women and the vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 217 p.
JK1924 A47 1997
Gordon, Ann D., ed. The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. v. <1 >
HQ1410 A2525 1997
Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls: the birth of the woman’s rights movement. New York: Schocken Books, 1976, c.1974. vi, 328 p.
HQ1412 G85 1976
Hannam, June. International encyclopedia of women’s suffrage. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2000. xxvii, 380 p.
JF851 H28 2000
Women and Labor
Calkin, Homer. Women in American foreign affairs. Washington: Department of State, 1977. 311 p.
S1.2 :W84
Calkin, Homer. Women in the Department of State: their role in American foreign affairs. Washington: Department of State, 1978. xii, 322 p.
S1.69 :166
Howes, Ruth H. Their day in the sun: women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999. viii, 264 p.
Q1773.3 U5 H68 1999
Laughlin, Kathleen A. Women’s work and public policy: a history of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. x, 172 p.
HD6095 L35 2000
O’Sullivan, Judith. Workers and allies: female participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976. Washington: Published for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975. 96 p.
SI1.2 :W 89/2
Shaw, Stephanie. What women ought to be and to do: black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi, 347 p.
HD6054.2 U6 S53 1996
Women and Reform
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War sisterhood: the U.S. Sanitary Commission and women’s politics in transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. xiv, 239 p.
E628 G54 2000
Laughlin, Kathleen A. Women’s work and public policy: a history of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. x, 172 p.
HD6095 L35 2000
Murphy, Teresa Anne. Ten hours’ labor: religion, reform, and gender in early New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xii, 231 p.
HD8083 A11 M87 1992
Swain, Martha H. Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal advocate for women. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1995. xviii, 275 p.
HQ1413 W68 S93
Women and Society
Our mothers before us: women and democracy, 1789-1970. Washington, DC: Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998. 1 v.
HQ1410 O9 1998
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression: caste and culture in San Antonio, 1929-1935. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1984. xviii, 279 p.
HQ1439 S2 B4
Kerber, Linda K. No constitutional right to be ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998. xxiv, 405 p.
HQ1236.5 U6 K47 1998
Perdue, Theda. Cherokee women: gender and culture change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi, 252 p.
E99 C5 P3934 1998
Pfau, Ann Elizabeth. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, gender and domesticity during World War II. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, c2008. 190 p.
D810.W7 P43 2008
Rowbotham, Sheila. A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States. London: Viking, 1997. xiv, 752 p.
HQ1593 R68 1997
Rymph, Catherine E. Republican women: feminism and conservatism from suffrage through the rise of the new right. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2006. xi, 338 p.
JK2356 .R96 2006
Yung, Judy. Unbound feet: a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 395 p.
F869 S39 C595 1995
Women and War/Military
Answering the call: the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: a commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2008. 238 p.
D629.U6 A65 2008
Women come to the front: journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1995. 23 p.
LC1.2 :W 84
Bellafaire, Judith. Women doctors in war. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, c2009. xii, 255 p.
UB418.W65 B45 2009
Bellafaire, Judith A. The Women’s Army Corps: a commemoration of World War II service. Washington DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1993. 28 p.
D114.2 :W84
Blanton, DeAnne. They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c2002. xiii, 277 p.
E628 B52 2002
Brockett, L.P. Woman’s work in the Civil War: a record of heroism, patriotism, and patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867. p. 21-799.
E628 B854 1867
Brooks-Pazmany, Kathleen L. United States women in aviation, 1919-1929. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. iii, 57 p.
SI1.42 :5
Butler, Deborah A. American women writers on Vietnam: unheard voices: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989. 312 p.
Z1227 B88 1989
Carl, Ann B. A WASP among eagles: a woman military test pilot in World War II. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x, 132 p.
D790 C272 1999
Clinton, Catherine. Civil War stories. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xi, 130 p.
E468.9 C57 1998
Douglas, Deborah. United States women in aviation, 1940-1985. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. viii, 142 p.
SI1.42 :7
Ebbert, Jean and Marie-Beth Hall. Crossed currents: Navy women from World War I to Tailhook. Washington: Brassey’s (US), 1993. xx, 321 p.
VB324 W65 E23 1993
Gavin, Lettie. American women in World War I: they also served. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997. xi, 295 p.
D639 W7 G38 1997
Greenwald, Maurine Weiner. Women, war, and work: the impact of World War I on women workers in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. xxvii, 309 p.
HD6095 G7
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. A time remembered: American women in the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1999. xii, 262 p.
DS559.8 W6 G78 1999.
Hall, Richard. Patriots in disguise: women warriors of the Civil War. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1994. xiv, 224 p.
E628 H35 1994
Hancock, Joy Bright. Lady in the Navy: a personal reminiscence. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1972. xi, 289 p.
VA390 H27
Helm, Sarah. A life in secrets: Vera Atkins and the missing agents of World War II. New York: Nan A. Talese, c2005. xxviii, 493.
D810 S8 A86 2005
Hewitt, Linda. Women marines in World War I. Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1974. vii, 80 p.
D214.13 :W84
Higonnet, Margaret Randolph, et al. Behind the lines: gender and the two World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. viii, 310 p.
D639 W7 B43 1987
Jaros, Dean. Heroes without legacy: American airwomen, 1912-1944. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. x, 265 p.
TL139 J37 1993
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American women in the First World War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2008. xvii, 244 p.
D639.W7 J36 2008
Leonard, Elizabeth D. All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. 368 p.
E628 L45 1999
Mangerich, Agnes Jensen. Albanian escape: the true story of U.S. Army nurses behind enemy lines. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, c1999. xiii, 220 p.
D807.U6 M357 1999
Marshall, Kathryn. In the combat zone: an oral history of American women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. vii, 270 p.
DS559.8 W6 M3
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of spies: the women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xiv, 282 p.
D810 S7 M375 1998
Monahan, Evelyn. A few good women: America’s military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. xvii, 475 p.
UB418.W65 M66 2010
Monahan, Evelyn. All this hell: U.S. nurses imprisoned by the Japanese. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2000. xi, 228 p.
D805.P6 M66 2000
Monahan, Evelyn. And if I perish: frontline U.S. Army nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003. x, 514 p.
D807.U6 M66 2003
Moore, Frank. Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice. Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866. xvi, 17-596 p.
E628 M81
Morden, Bettie J. The Women’s Army Corps, 1945-1978. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1990. xix, 543 p.
D114.19 :W84
Proctor, Tammy M. Female intelligence: women and espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University, c2003. xvi, 204 p.
D639 S7 P76 2003
Putney, Martha S. When the nation was in need: blacks in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. ix, 231 p.
D810 N4 P88 1992
Sherrow, Victoria. Women and the military: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996. xxii, 381 p.
U21.75 S54 1996
Vuic, Kara Dixon. Officer, nurse, woman: the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii, 271 p.
DS559.44 .V85 2010
Weiss, Elaine F. Fruits of victory: the Woman’s Land Army of America in the Great War. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, c2008. xi, 315 p.
D639.W7 W45 2008
Williams, Kathleen Broome. Improbable warriors: women scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c2001. xvii, 280 p.
Q141 W617 2001
Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam’s service: women workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. x, 209 p.
D810 W7 Z36 1999