Famous Women Links

FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCH LINKS

Here are some links to sites Mrs. Knox found for you with information on the famous American women that you will be researching. Be sure to check the library for printed materials along with searching the Internet for information! You may also wish to search the Internet for more sites than the ones listed here using search tools such as Yahooligans or Google to help you in your research.

Abigail Adams - Influential letter writer who urged her husband, President John Adams to "Remember the Ladies," and permit women to legally own property.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=5
http://www.abigailadams.org/Abigail/abigail.html
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/first/02pw.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_addams.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%22Jane+Addams%22

Jane Addams - Social reformer who created Hull House in Chicago slums, starting an American settlement house movement to help the poor.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=6
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm
http://www.execpc.com/~shepler/janeaddams.html
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html

Louisa May Alcott - Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=8
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/alcott.htm
http://www.alcottweb.com/
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/ALCOTT/ABOUTLA.html
http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/alcott/alcott.htm

Susan B. Anthony - The women's movement's most powerful organizer whose lifetime of dedication paved the way for women's right to vote.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=13
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/first.htm

Clara Barton - Founder the American Red Cross, Barton ministered to injured soldiers during the Civil War and became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield."

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=17
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Barton.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/bartonclara/

Rachel Carson - Zoologist whose concern over the damaging effects of pesticides and other poisons on the environment led to her groundbreaking work, Silent Spring.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=34
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/carson/

Shirley Chisholm - First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=39
http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/chisholm.htm
http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0741ChisholmShirley.asp?pic=none

Beverly Cleary - Cleary's books appear in over twenty countries in fourteen languages and her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations.

http://www.beverlycleary.com/beverlycleary/index.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/cleary/bio.htm
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cleary.htm
http://www.puffin.co.uk/Author/AuthorPage/1,1590,0000035296,00.html
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/cleary.html

Babe Didrikson - The first to prove a girl could be an athlete, Babe Didrikson began as a muscular phenom who mastered many sports and ended as a brilliant golfer.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=177
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014147.html
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/didriksonzaharias_b.htm
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/2/

Amelia Earhart - The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=53
http://www.kidskonnect.com/Ameila%20Earhart/AmeliaEarhartHome.html
http://www.ameliaearhart.com/
http://www.ninety-nines.org/earhart.html

Barbara Jordan - First black woman elected to Congress from the south and the first Black woman to deliver the keynote address at the convention of a major political party (Democratic Convention, 1976).

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=90
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/jordan.html

Helen Keller - Author and lecturer. An illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf, blind and mute. Through the work of teacher Anne Sullivan, she learned to overcome these daunting handicaps and became a powerful and effective national spokesperson.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=91
http://www.kidskonnect.com/HelenKeller/HelenKellerHome.html

Mary Todd Lincoln -

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ml16.html
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln76.html
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/first/16pw.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/

Dolley Madison -

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/dm4.html
http://moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/first/04pw.html
http://www.jamesmadisonmuseum.org/chrono.htm#dolley

Sandra Day O'Connor - First woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=115
http://www.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=glynnis+o'connor&redir=http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/oconnor.bio.html&isbol=0

Annie Oakley -

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/oakl-ann.htm
http://ormiston.com/annieoakley/

Rosa Parks - Known as "the mother of the Civil Rights Movement," when, in 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=117
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
http://www.tsum.edu/museum/parksbio.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/

Molly Pitcher - An Artillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher) shared the rigors of Valley Forge with her husband, William Hays. Her actions during the battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 became legendary.

http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839207.html
http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Pitcher_Molly.html

Pocahontas - Pocahontas was an Indian princess, the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/pocahonta
http://www.millville.cache.k12.ut.us/millville/teachers/carles/carles96_97/Colonial/pocahontas.htm
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/Pocahontas.html

Mary Lou Retton - Mary Lou Retton catapulted to international fame at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, becoming the first American woman ever to win the Gold Medal in the All-Around in women's gymnastics.

http://www.ighof.com/honorees_marylou.html
http://www.wheaties.com/at/retton.asp

Lizzie Stanton - Suffragist and reformer, convened the first women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=149
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blstanton.htm
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies/ecsbio.html
http://www.huntington.org/vfw/imp/stanton.html

Eleanor Roosevelt - Trailblazing First Lady and wife of President Franklin Roosevelt.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=128
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html
http://www.wic.org/bio/roosevel.htm
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/smahady/ercover.htm

Betsy Ross - Elizabeth Griscom Ross (1752-1836), was a Philadelphia seamstress, married to John Ross, an upholsterer who was killed in a munitions explosion in 1776. She kept the upholstery shop going and lived on Arch Street, not too far from the State House on Chestnut, where history was being made almost every day. According to most historians, she has been incorrectly credited with designing the first Stars and Stripes.

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/
http://www.usflag.org/about.betsy.ross.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blross.htm

Sacajawea - Sacajawea is well-known as the Indian woman who led Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to find the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html
http://www.sacajaweahome.com/Stories.htm
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sacagawea.htm

Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist born a slave who became a Quaker missionary.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=158
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/TRUTH/cover.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html

Harriet Tubman - Abolitionist born a slave who eventually became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.

http://www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=159
http://www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman
http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Tubman.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0218

Martha Washington - America's first "First Lady"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/first/01pw.html