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

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