Women in History
The
students in fifth grade at Kimball School participate in a Woman in History
Project during the months of January, February, and March.
They
each select a famous woman in history and read about her life and contributions
using books, magazines, and the Internet. Then
the children write an essay about the special characteristics and contributions
of the woman. The
essays are read and rated by other students, parents, teachers, and Kimball
School staff members. The
overall winners, as well as the winners in the special categories, are
recognized at an assembly of fifth grade students, their teachers, and
parents.
How do you write a biography?
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/wsbiography.html
http://www.gigglepotz.com/biog.htm
http://www.42explore2.com/biographies.htm
| General Sources | Alphabetical Listing |
WWW links to famous women sites - National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/biographycenter.php
http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/links.phpNational Women's Hall of Fame- short biographies
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.phpLists of Famous Women in History - Living Vignettes - huge site
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm
http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/research.htmAlphabetical List of Famous Women in History with biographies - really BIG site
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/alphabet/alphabet.html
Women of the Century - 100 Years of American Heroes
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/womens-history/index.jsp
Biographies of Famous Women
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/index.htm
History's Women - http://www.historyswomen.com/
Women in History links from Embracing the Child
http://www.embracingthechild.org/womenhistory.htmWomen of NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/WON.html16 Women in Science from San Diego Supercomputing
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/Biographies of Women Mathematicians from Agnes Scott College
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htmWomen in Science over 4000 years
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtmlFirst Ladies of the United States of America
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/Women Nobel Prize Laureates
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.htmlWomen Who Changed History
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/index.htmFamous Women Writers of Color from the University of Minnesota
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/Maya Angelou - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/angelou_maya.html
Gwendolyn Brooks - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/brooks_gwendolyn.html
Angela Davis - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/davis_angela_yvonne.html
Louise Erdrich - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/erdrich_louise.html
Virginia Hamilton - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hamilton_virginia.html
Coretta Scott King - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/king_coretta_scott.html
Alice Walker - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/walker_alice.html
Phillis Wheatley - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/wheatley_phillis.htmlNew York Times Magazine about Modern Heroines
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/toc.html?243,244
Alphabetical Listing of Some Famous WomenAbigail Adams - First Lady
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first_ladies/abigailadams/
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/adams_a.htmJane Addams - suffragist, social worker
http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/addams_j.htmMarian Anderson - opera singer
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/anderson.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson
http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/ande-mar.htm
http://www.mariananderson.org/home/index.html
Susan B. Anthony - suffragist
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/anthony_s.htm
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/anthony_s.htmLucille Ball - actress
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ball/ball.htm
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/balllucille/balllucille.htm
http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/lucy.html
http://www.essortment.com/all/lucilleballbi_rtkn.htm
Clara Barton - nurse
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/barton_c.htm
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95dec/barton.htmlMary McLeod Bethune -educator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune
http://www.nahc.org/NAHC/Val/Columns/SC10-6.html
http://lkwdpl.org/WIHOHIO/beth-mar.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbethune.htmElizabeth Blackwell - doctor
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/blackwell_e.htm
http://campus.hws.edu/his/blackwell/articles/syracuse.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/blackwellelizabeth/a/eliz_blackwell.htmEthelda Bleibtrey -Olympic swimmer -
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/ethelda-bleibtrey-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelda_BleibtreyNellie Bly - reporter
http://home.att.net/~gapehenry/NellieBly.html
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/peopleevents/pande01.htmlAnne Bradstreet - poet
http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_bio_001.htm
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/lit/bradstre.htm
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/bradbio.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0328/p18s04-hfks.htmlPearl S. Buck - writer
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/
http://nhnh.essortment.com/pearlsbuckb_rytq.htmSusan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - astronomer
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/bellburnell_s.htmRachel Carson - zoologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btcars.html
http://www2.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/carson.htmMary Cassatt - artist
http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/bcassatt.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/CASSATT/HTML/indexl.htmlWilla Cather - writer
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/cather1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
http://www.willacather.org/about-willa-cather/willa-cather?start=1
Beverly Cleary - author
http://www.beverlycleary.com/beverlycleary/index.html
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/cleary.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/cleary.htmlMarie Curie - scientist
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/curie_m.htm
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/contents.htm
http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/msc.htm - Science in Poland - Zbigniew Zwolinki
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_CurieEmily Dickinson - poet
Emily D page - http://www.amherstcommon.com/walking_tour/emily.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/ (includes poems)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/dickinsonemily/a/emily_dickinson.htmAmelia Earhart - aviator
http://www.ameliaearhart.com/
http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html
Sylvia Earle - biologist
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ear0bio-1
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=54
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle
http://www.time.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/heroesgallery/0,2967,earle,00.html
Gertrude Ederle - athlete/swimmer
http://www.msu.edu/~grawbur1/iahweb.html
http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-A-Fi/Ederle-Gertrude.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD7103AF932A35751C1A9659C8B63
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_EderleElizabeth I ( 1533-1603)
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/elizabeth_1.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htmElla Fitzgerald - singer
http://www.redsugar.com/ella.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald
http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/bio/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_e.html
Anne Frank
http://www.annefrank.com
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/annefran.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005210
Indira Gandhi - political leader
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/Indira.html
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ghandi_i.htm
http://www.indiragandhi.com/index.html
Beulah Henry - inventor
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbeulah.htm
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/273.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Louise_Henry
Grace Hopper - mathematician and computer pioneer
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hopper.html
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/hopper.htmCharlayne Hunter-Gault - journalist
http://www.usca.edu/aasc/hunter.htm
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/21/i_ins.00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlayne_Hunter-Gault
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/huntergault/Charlayne_HunterGault.htm
Anne Hutchinson - religious leader
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights/features_hutchison.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/ah.htmlLotte Jacobi - photographer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Jacobi
http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous_People/Link_Free_or_Die/Lotte_Jacobi/
http://www.state.nh.us/nharts/artsandartists/inmemory/lottejacobi.htmlBarbara Jordan - Congresswoman
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/jordan_b.htm
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/Jordan/goodhopebio.html
http://www.elf.net/bjordan/jackson-lee.htmlHelen Keller - author and lecturer
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/keller.htm
http://www.afb.org/section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
Coretta Scott King - human rights advocate
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/king_c_s.htm
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1bio-1Margaret Knight - inventor
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blknight.htm
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/knight.html
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9125831
Hedy Lamarr - actress and inventor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/bio
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/didyouknow.1.htmlMaya Lin - architect, sculptor
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/lin_m.htm
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/lin/lin_bio.htmlBelva Ann Lockwood - American law pioneer
http://www.momscape.com/articles/lockwood.htm
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/papers/lockwood.htmJuliette Gordon Low - founder of the Girl Scouts
http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/low_biography/
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/low-jul.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/low.htmMary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
http://www.historyswomen.com/1stWomen/MaryLyon.htmDolley Madison - First Lady
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/dm4.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/madi-dol.htmMary Hays McCauly (Molly Pitcher)
http://earlyamerica.com/molly_pitcher.html
http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/youasked/070.htmBarbara McClintock - Nobel Prize winner
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/mcclint.htm
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1983/mcclintock-autobio.htmlGolda Meir - Prime Minister of Israel
http://www.wic.org/bio/gmeir.htm
http://www.ou.org/chagim/yomhaatzmauth/golda.html
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/meir.htmlEdna St. Vincent Millay - poet
http://www.millaysociety.org/millaybio.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay_life.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/160Maria Mitchell - astronomer
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/mitchell.html
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/MITCHELL.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=110Lucretia Mott - women's rights leader
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=112
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blmott.htmFlorence Nightingale - nurse
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/nightingale_f.htm
http://www.kings.edu/womens_history/florence.htmlSandra Day O'Connor - Supreme Court justice
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=115
http://phoenix.about.com/cs/famous/a/oconnor.htmGeorgia O'Keefe - artist
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=116
http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/background/index.htmlAnnie Oakley - marksman
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=114
http://www.dorchesterlibrary.org/library/aoakley.htmlRosa Parks - civil rights activist
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htmMarilla Ricker - New Hampshire's first woman lawyer - includes other links
http://www.seacoastsearch.com/nhlinks/people/marillaricker/index.html
http://www.govwentworth.k12.nh.us/goals2000-4WebSite/history/Famous%20People/Ricker.htmlSally Ride - astronaut
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96may/ride.html (info plus other sites)
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=125Eleanor Roosevelt - humanitarian
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=128
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/roosevelt_e.htmJ. K. Rowling - author
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/rowling_jk.htm
http://www.jkrowling.com/en/
http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/jkrowling.html (interview)
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9346272Wilma Rudolph - track star
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/rudolph_w.htm
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/running/5175
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/rudo-wil.htm
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016444.html ( ESPN site)
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=131Sacajawea - guide and interpreter
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/sakajawe.html
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sacagawea.htm (PBS)Jeanne Shaheen - former NH governor
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/nh_shaheen.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeanne_ShaheenBeverly Sills - opera singer
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=144
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560957/Beverly_Sills.htmlElizabeth Cady Stanton - women's rights
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=149
http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htmBelle Starr - "bandit queen"
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/blbellestarr1.htm
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm
http://www.frontiertimes.com/outlaws/belle_starr.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4743/bstarr.htmlAnnie Sullivan Macy - teacher to Helen Keller
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/sull-ann.htm
http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=a_sullivanMaria Tallchief - ballerina
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=155
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/tallchie.htmSojourner Truth - abolitionist
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/truth_s.htm
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/truth.htm
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.htmlHarriet Tubman - rights activist
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/tubman_h.htm
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/tubman.htmMercy Otis Warren - poet, historian, and writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2002/warren.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=195
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0328/p18s04-hfks.htmlLaura Ingalls Wilder - author
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/laurawilder.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_WilderEmma Hart Willard - educator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Willard
http://www.emma.troy.ny.us/about/history/ehwillard/ehwillard.phpBabe Didricksen Zaharias - athlete
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/didriksonzaharias_b.htm
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=177
http://cnnsi.com/siforwomen/top_100/2/ (CNN Sports)
Women in History Webquests
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson164.shtml
http://www.uvm.edu/~inquiryb/webquest/sp03/Banghart/
Women in History Scavenger Hunt - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson102.shtmlWomen in History activities - http://www.proteacher.com/090081.shtml
Women's History Month Quiz - http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/quiz/index.htm
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updated March 11, 2009