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• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

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• Study clubs. (Michigan State Library, 1896), by Michigan State Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploring a Common Past: Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service (second edition, 2003, updated 2005) (PDF at nps.gov)
• Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Their Political, Social and Economic Activities (New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1933), by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (HTML and page images at LOC)
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, by Library of Congress (searchable HTML at LOC)
• Women of America (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v10; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The National Exposition souvenir. What America owes to women (C. W. Moulton, 1893), by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and World's Columbian Exposition (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les femmes d'Oncle Sam (J. Maisonneuve et fils, 1913), by Émile Félix Deschamps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women's history is everywhere : 10 ideas for celebrating in communities : a how to community handbook (U.S. General Services Administration, 2000), by United States General Services Administration and United States. President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Honoring our past : report and recommendations (The Commission, 2000), by United States. President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Women's History Museum Act of 2003 : report of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate to accompany S. 1741 to provide a site for the National Women's History Museum in the District of Columbia. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of America (G. Barrie, 1908), by John Ruse Larus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congress of women ([S.l., in the 1870s), by Association for the Advancement of Women (page images at HathiTrust)
• Position [and education] of American women. ([Phil.?, 1890), by Kate Stephens and K. S. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il problema dei diritti della donna : specialmente in Inghilterra e in America (G.C. Sansoni, 1877), by Odoardo Luchini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war; : their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S.S. Scranton & Co. R.C. Treat, Chicago, H.H. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. National Publishing Company, Cincinnati., 1868), by Frank Moore and G.E. Perine & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our women in the war. : An address (Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, printers, nos. 3 and 5 Broad and 117 East Bay sts., 1887), by Francis Warrington Dawson, Evans & Cogswell Company Walker, and Association of the Maryland Line (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Women in the War, by Francis Warrington Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Woman's Life in Colonial Days, by Carl Holliday (Gutenberg ebook)

• On the Equality of the Sexes (as published in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790), by Judith Sargent Murray (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Women of the American Revolution (3 volumes; New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849-1850), by E. F. Ellet
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Women of the Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2, by E. F. Ellet, contrib. by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1, by E. F. Ellet, contrib. by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Domestic problems (J.R. Osgood, 1881), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovremennai︠a︡ zhenshchina : ei︠a︡ polozhenīe v Evropi︠e︡ i Ameriki︠e︡ (Izd. F. Pavlenkova :, 1896), by B. F. Brandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• What women did for the war and what the war did for women. A Memorial Day address delivered before the Soldiers' Club at Wellesley, Mass., May 30, 1894 (Boston, 1894), by Josiah H. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women, war and fascism (American League Against War and Fascism, 1935), by Dorothy McConnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Luci transatlantiche : studio di vita americana moderna (Bemporad & Figlio, 1920), by Paulo G. Brenna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Our women in the war. : An address (Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, printers, nos. 3 and 5 Broad and 117 East Bay sts., 1887), by Francis Warrington Dawson, Evans & Cogswell Company Walker, and Association of the Maryland Line (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through some eventful years (J.W. Burke, 1926), by Susan Bradford Eppes (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, by Library of Congress (searchable HTML at LOC)
• Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States (Library of Congress ;, 2001), by Sheridan Harvey and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman rebel ([s.n.], 1914), by Margaret Sanger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women's Lives, Women's Voices: Sources in Women's History in The Records of the National Archives and in Editions and Records Projects Supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, ca. 1995), by United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Mrs. Ellen Stewart: Together With Biographical Sketches of Other Individuals; Also, A Discussion with Two Clergymen, and Arguments in Favor of Woman's Rights; Together with Letters on Different Subjects (Akron, OH: Beebe and Elkins, Printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (PDF at akronlibrary.org)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Significant dates in the early history of institutions for the higher education of women in the United States (Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, 1948), by Elizabeth N. Layton and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1981), by Estelle B. Freedman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Noble Deeds of American Women, by Jesse Clement (page images at MOA)
• Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times (Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1884), contrib. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary A. Livermore, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Marion Harland, Mary Clemmer, Louise Chandler Moulton, A. D. T. Whitney, Lucy Larcom, Julia Ward Howe, Susan Coolidge, Kate Sanborn, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, Laura Curtis Bullard, Lilian Whiting, Elizabeth T. Spring, Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, and Maud Howe Elliott
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• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• Women in health, education, and welfare ([HEW Office of Equal Employment Opportunity], 1975), by Education United States. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wives (Harper & brothers, 1925), by Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman on the American frontier. A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of the republic." (S. S. Scranton & company, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American revolution. (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American revolution (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1900), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S. S. Scranton & co.;, 1866), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biographical cyclopaedia of American women. (The Halvord publishing company, inc., 1924), by Mabel Ward Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies in revolt (The Womans Press, 1934), by Abbie Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• American women; the official who's who among the women of the nation. (Richard Blank publishing company, 1935), by Durward Howes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Jesse Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. Amila Hudson Lemmon. : Born August 27, 1802. Died October 7, 1885. Aged 83 years, 1 month and 11 days. (J.G. Lemmon?], 1885), by Ina D. Coolbrith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eliza Read Sunderland : a Brief sketch of her life ; Memorial addresses. (s.n., 1912), by John Coleman Adams, Augustus P. Reccord, and Jabez Thomas Sunderland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worthy women of our first century (J. B. Lippincott, 1877), by Sarah Butler Wister and Agnes Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S. S. Scranton & co.;, 1866), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer mothers of America ; a record of the more notable women of the early days of the country, and particularly of the colonial and revolutionary periods (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daughters of America; or, Women of the century. (True and Company, 1882), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times : an entirely new work, full of romantic story, lively humor, thrilling experiences, tender pathos, and brilliant wit, with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences (A. D. Worthington, 1884), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A.G. Nettleton & Co, and A.D. Worthington & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences and letters of Caroline C. Briggs (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Caroline Clapp Briggs and George Spring Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women who have ennobled life (The Union Press, 1915), by Lilian Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the century (B.B. Russell, 1877), by Phebe A. Hanaford, Olympia Brown, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroines of service : Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams (Century Co., 1917), by Mary Rosetta Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American foundresses (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Joseph Bernard Code (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (J. Murray, 1894), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1848), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women pioneers (Johnson Pub. Co., 1929), by Jane Y. McCallum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women; with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (C.M. Saxton, 1859), by John Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worthy women of our first century. (Lippincott, 1877), by Agnes Irwin and Sarah Butler Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in American history. (Books for Libraries Press, 1919), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daring and heroic deeds of American women : comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice among the pioneer mothers of the western country (G.G. Evans, 1860), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial exercises in honor of Julia Ward Howe, held in Symphony hall, Boston, on Sunday evening, January 8, 1911, at 8 o'clock. (Printing department, 1911), by Boston City Council, William Henry Lewis, Mary Emma Woolley, and Curtis Guild (page images at HathiTrust)
• I, citizen of eternity : a diary of hopeful days (The Four Seas Company, 1920), by Gertrude Sanborn and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in American history. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of famous women (Evans-Penfold, 1916), by Harriet A. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A woman of the century : fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life (Moulton, 1893), by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroic women of the West: comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice, among the pioneer mothers of the western country (A. Hart, 1854), by John Frost and A. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent women of the age ; being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation (S. M. Betts & Co., 1869), by Horace Greeley and James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. ([E.D. Bettens], 1916), by Edward Detraz Bettens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J. B. Lippincott, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John Seely Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daughters of America (Boston : B.B. Russell, 1883., 1883), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Voice of America, United States Information Agency, 1985), by Chantal Mompoullan and Voice of America (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dames and daughters of colonial days (Corner House, 1982), by Geraldine Brooks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman on the frontier (S. S. Scranton, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : comprising the lives and deeds of American women who have distinguished themselves in literature, science, art, music, and the drama, or are famous as heroines, patriots, orators, educators, physicians, philanthropists, etc., with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences ... (A.D. Worthington, 1883), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Rocky Mountains. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• My day reminiscences of a long life (Macmillan, 1909), by Roger A. Pryor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An uncrowned queen the story of the life of Frances E. Willard, told for young people (F.H. Revell, 1903), by Bernie Babcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our famous women : An authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times. (A. D. Worthington, 1885), by True Williams and A.D. Worthington & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the frontier. (S. S. Scranton, 1886), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The part taken by women in American history (The Perry-Nalle publishing co., 1912), by John A. Logan, Harriet Taylor Upton, Julia Green Scott, and Emily Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women : comprising the lives and deeds of American women who have distinguished themselves in literature, science, art, music, and the drama, or are famous as heroines, patriots, orators, educators, physicians, philanthropists, etc. with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal experiences (A. D. Worthington, 1884), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American belles of the nineteenth century (J. B. Lippincott company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women of the American Revolution (New York : Baker and Scribner, 1850., 1850), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier; a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic.". (S. S. Scranton, 1883), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Revolution (McMenamy, Hess, 1873), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic" (S.S. Scranton, 1878), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of achievement : written for the Fireside Schools, under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (The Society, 1919), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley and Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our famous women; an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times; an entirely new work, full of romantic story, lively humor, thrilling experiences, tender pathos, and brilliant wit, with numerous anecdotes, incidents, and personal reminiscences (S.F. Junkin & Co., 1887), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the American Revolution (Baker and Scribner, 1849), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tale of woe (Printed for the authoress., 1809), by K. White and Frank Cutter Deering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women; ; with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. (Derby, Orton and Mulligan. ;, 1853), by John Chester Buttre, L. H. Sigourney, J. Clement, Thomas & Co Jewett, Geo. H. Derby & Co, Derby and Miller, and Orton & Mulligan Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in California (Published at the Empire Steam Printing House, 1857), by Jane Barron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the war; : their heroism and self-sacrifice. (S.S. Scranton & Co. R.C. Treat, Chicago, H.H. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. National Publishing Company, Cincinnati., 1868), by Frank Moore and G.E. Perine & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous women (Union Publishing House, 1894), by L. P. Brockett, Henry W. Bellows, and Mary C. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• American women : fifteen hundred biographies with over 1,400 portraits : a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897), by Mary A. Livermore, Frances E. Willard, and Crowell & Kirkpatrick Mast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble deeds of American women. With an introd. by L.H. Sigourney. (C.M. Saxton, Barker, 1861), by Jesse Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted women of Europe and America : authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar : from the most recent and authentic sources (Hartford, Conn. : Phoenix Publishing Co., 1883., 1883), by James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer women of America : A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the mothers of the republic (S. S. Scranton, 1896), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Child of the Orient, by Demetra Vaka (Gutenberg ebook)
• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heroines of Service: Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams, by Mary Rosetta Parkman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent, ed. by J. Clement (Gutenberg ebook)

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