Women in history are often overlooked and ignored, which is something Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider aim to address through their podcast The History Chicks. The podcast has been around since 2011 with new episodes generally published twice per month. The most recent episode features Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished female athletes of all time....

Part two of this special series in The New York Times Magazine devoted to the millennium focuses on the evolution of the role of women in the last thousand years and the contributions they have made to the millennium's history. Over a dozen features touch on everything from changes in the world of medicine vis-a-vis women's bodies, to the changing role of women in China, to the female mystical...

An electronic "mini-edition" of the microform edition of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, compiled by the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Project, has been made available by Rutgers University and the Model Editions Partnership. The mini-edition features a selection of facsimile and transcribed documents -- including letters, pamphlets, reform organization...

What's Her Name is a podcast dedicated to "reclaiming forgotten history," through the stories of "fascinating women you've never heard of (but should have)." Hosted by Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle, each episode since the podcast's launch in 2018 has featured hilarious and thoughtful interviews with guest experts, writers, and historians. For instance, the Feb. 1, 2021 episode "The Suffragist...

The University of Wisconsin has created a vast array of wonderful bibliographies related to women's studies, and this is one of the best. This particular bibliography is an expansion of one created in 1981 by Linda Parker, a women's studies librarian at the school. This iteration was updated and enhanced by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, and is divided into three sections: General Works, Works on...

Under the able direction of educator Lyn Reese, the Women in World History Curriculum project has been developing materials that introduce women's history into the secondary level classroom for more than two decades. Teachers and parents will enjoy perusing the online materials here, which include reviews of various curricula, reviews of women's history books that may be useful in the classroom,...

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and several other institutions have joined forces to create this very nice "one-stop" website for materials related to women's history. The site is an intoxicating and arresting blend of educational resources (such as lesson plans),...

More than half a dozen government cultural agencies, including the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have contributed to this website celebrating Women's History Month. The theme for 2009 is "Women's commitment to the environment", but this website also has information on influential women in...

This site from Harvard University allows visitors to learn about the lives of women during the Qajar era in Iran from 1796 to 1926 via a "wide array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions." The site is most remarkable as it allows visitors to access the materials in both Arabic and English. It offers thousands of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs,...

Presented by Baker Library of Harvard Business School, Women, Enterprise and Society (WES) is an online publication that identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library and documents women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. The launch of WES represents the culmination of a three-year project to identify...