About This Database

A Veritable Treasure Trove of Women's History Materials

American Women's History Online is an authoritative reference database containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, primary sources, maps and charts, images and videos, and general and subject-specific timelines encompassing more than 500 years of American women's history. More than 60 historical videos cover such topics as working women, women in politics, and changing women's fashions.

Unique Learning Centers highlight handpicked entries within each major era, and Learning Centers and records contain persistent record links. Other key features include up-to-date chronologies, tabbed search results, and useful quotations linked to select biographies. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase, or they can browse by topic and by time period—from nine historical periods relevant specifically to women's history. In addition, biographies can be browsed by occupation, and primary sources by type. Full citations are available throughout, and users can print, copy, and save content to a folder.

Features:

• Biographies: biographies, many of which include quotes—from novelist Julia Alvarez to dancer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
• Events and Topics: entries on topics such as court cases and legislation, key social issues, organizations, and events
• Primary Sources: a combination of full text and pertinent excerpts of primary source documents, with brief introductions
• Timelines: a general timeline spanning more than 500 years of American women's history, updated monthly; a timeline of the American women's suffrage movement; a timeline covering the history of reproductive rights and technology; and a timeline on women in politics, updated monthly
• Images and Videos: more than 60 videos, with captions; hundreds of historical images, with explanatory captions
• Maps and Charts: original maps, charts, and tables with captions
• Learning Centers: specially selected entries on different eras of women's history to help users find a starting point for their research
• Special Features: an "Editor's Selection of the Month" highlighting an event tied to each month; a "Focus On" feature spotlighting a topic such as women in politics
• Dictionary: more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, many with pronunciation, etymology, and syllable breaks of the word.