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Women's History
Research Projects

Working on a school research paper or research project and want to write about women? Check out the list of ideas below:

Indigenous Societies, Origins-1491

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Colonization & Impact on Women’s Experiences, 1492-1774

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American Independence
& women in the early republic, 1776-1848

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Seneca Falls, Manifest Destiny, the Civil War & Reconstruction, 1848-1876

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Women’s Inequality
in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
Reforms, 1877-1913

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  • Abortion

    • Madame Resetell

    • Restellism

  • Women’s suffrage movement in the Gilded Age

    • National American Women's Suffrage Association

    • National Women's Suffrage Association

    • American Women's Suffrage Association

  • Club Women

    • YWCA

    • National Association of Colored Women

    • NAACP

  • Women radicals

    • International Workers of the World (Wobblies)

    • Anarchism

  • Spiritualism & civil liberties

    • Ida Craddock

    • Victoria Woodhull

  • Temperance

    • Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Women in the west

    • Women in the Klondike gold rush (Alaska)

  • Settlement houses

    • Hull House in Chicago​

  • ​People to research​

    • Lucy Parsons​

    • Emma Goldman

    • Anna Julia Cooper

    • Alice Paul

    • Jane Addams

World Wars & Women in the
Cold War
1914-1970s

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  • Women’s Suffrage movement

    • NAWSA

    • National Woman’s Party

    • Silent sentinels

    • Emily Davidson

    • League of Women Voters

  • Indian Citizenship Act

  • Women’s activism in the “doldrums”

    • Birth control movement

    • The Harlem Renaissance

  • Equal Rights Amendment

  • Pacifism 

    • Inez Milholland​

  • The Great War

  • World War II

  • Worker’s Rights

  • The Cold War

    • Women in the Lavender Scare

  • Suffragists

    • Adelina Otero-Warren

    • Gail Laughlin

    • Tye Leung Schulze

    • Zitkala-Sa

    • Alice Paul

  • People to research

  • Primary sources

    • “Now We Can Begin” by Crystal Eastman

    • Sr. Grace Dammann’s Principles vs. Prejudice

    • Articles on Black suffragists from the California Eagle

    • Zikala-Ša’s Americanize the First Americans (1920)

    • Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Come Out of the Kitchen Mary (1919)

    • Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley take Opposing Positions on Proposed Equal Rights Bill (1922)

    • Buck v. Bell Supreme Court case

    • Daughters of Bilitis, Purpose of the Daughters (1955)

    • J. Edgar Hoover, “Mothers…Our Only Hope” from Woman’s Home Companion (1944)

Feminist waves, conservative backlash
& the modern women's movement
1970s-Present

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Women in the borderlands

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