Welcome to the 2024 Women's History Month LibGuide! Here you will find resources devoted to the celebration and remembrance of the strides, suffrage, and accomplishments of women throughout the history of the United States.
The National Women's History Project, formed in 1980 in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett and Bette Morgan. The NWHP lobbied Congress since 1980 for national recognition of the contributions of women to numerous artistic, professional, political, and academic fields for which there was little acknowledgement in the past to prolific female figures. The 2024 Theme for National Women’s History Month is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
Women's Suffrage: Crash Course
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In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made a lot of other gains in the 30 years between 1890 and 1920. More women joined the workforce, they acquired lots of other legal rights related to property, and they also became key consumers in the industrial economy. Women also continued to play a vital role in reform movements. Sadly, they got Prohibition enacted in the US, but they did a lot of good stuff, too. The field of social work emerged as women like Jane Addams created settlement houses to assist immigrants in their integration into the United States. Women also began to work to make birth control widely available. You'll learn about famous reformers and activists like Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman, among others.
