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Links: Peace and War

 

• American Women in Uniform
  Selected women from all of America’s wars are profiled.
  URL: userpages.aug.com/captbarb/

• Anna Ella Carroll, Civil War Strategist
  Transcripts from the Congressional hearings concerning Carroll’s part in authoring “The Tennessee War Plan” of 1861/2, presented as a stage play.
  URL: http://www.usd.edu/~acjones/index.html

• Army Nurse Corps History
  The history in pictures and biographies from the war with Spain through the Korean War.
  URL: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/anc/anchhome.html

• Civil War: Remember the Ladies
  spies and soldiers, nurses and physicians, writers and publishers, plus links galore.
  URL: geocities.com/heartland/4678/kate.html

• Civil War Women
  images and transcriptions of three Duke University collections: Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Alice Williamson, and Sarah Thompson.
  URL: scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/civil-war-women.html

• Civil War Women: Primary Sources
  extensive, annotaed links to primairy sources — diaries, letters, documents, photographs, prints — and more general pages including a bibliography from Duke University.
  URL: scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

• Important Dates in the History of Women in the Military
  thirty-one annotated dates about this topic.
  URL: http://www.popsplacebbs.com/womenvets.htm

• Heroines of Peace: The Nine Nobel Women
  biographies and photographs of the nine women who’ve been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  URL: http://www.nobel.se/essays/heroines/index.html

• Minerva
  clearinghouse for information about women in military history.
  URL: www.minervacenter.com

• The Saint Louis Ladies’ Union Aid Society
  during the Civil War, women supporting the Union effort organized to aid the cause significantly. Their work in Missouri, described on this website, typified the effort elsewhere.
  URL: www.stlcc.cc.mo.us/fv/users/mfuller/luas/

• Swarthmore College Peace Collection
  approximately half of which concerns women’s role in peace work and other social justice movements. Personal papers of major peace figures, records of organizations, photographs and ephemera.
  URL: www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace

• What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?
  27 oral histories of Rhode Island women during World War II, written by high school honors students. Teacher notes, too!
  URL: www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

• Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS)
  Meet the women who test-piloted aircraft during World War II - with a timeline of women in military history and in flight, access to a teacher’s guide.
  URL: www.pbs.org/amex/flygirls

• Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
  the WASPS were the first women to ever fly American military aircraft.
  URL: www.wasp-WWII.org

• Women and the Military
  very extensive site, featuring related topics and an array of international biographies.
  URL: www.gendergap.com/military.htm

• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
  the life and work of Dorothea Lange, May Craig, Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Janet Flanner, Clare Boothe Luce, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Esther Bubley, from the Library of Congress exhibit of the same name.
  URL: lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/

• Women in Vietnam
  interviews, articles, and first-person accounts related to life during the war years, from correspondents, civilian and military nurses, Red Cross women, military dependents, and entertainers. Bibliography of books, videos, and other resources.
  URL: www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html

• Women Veterans
  biographies of American women veterans from each major military conflict introduced in the context of time.
  URL: userpages.aug.com/captbarb

• Women Come to the Front (WWII)
  the Library of Congress archives about World War II journalists, photographers, and broadcasters.
  URL: lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

• Women’s Land Army Corps of World War II
  offers poster and 8 photos about the women who worked with the Emergency Farm Labor Service.
  URL: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuwla.html