Library Guides:
Subject Guide to Researching United States Women's History 
in the COS Library

Created by Connie Fly, Librarian  

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Reference Book List | Subject Headings List | Links to Web Sites

 Below is a list of Reference Books located in the Reference Area of the COS Library that is a good starting point for researching "Women in U.S. History." 

•  Annals of America. 1971.  Call #:  R 973.08 A613.
• American Women Writers,  c1982.  Call # R 810.99287 A512.
• American Women's History:  An A to Z of people, organizations, issues & events, 1994.  Call # R305.4 W362.
• Black Women in America; an Historical Encyclopedia, c1993.  Call # R920.72 B627.
• Dictionary of American History, 1978.  Call # R 973.03 D554.
• Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics, c1999.  Call # R 320.082 En56.
• Encyclopedia of Women in the American West, c2003.  Call # R 305.4209  E 56
• Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993, 1993.  Call # R305.42 C257.
• The Feminist Companion to Literature in English; Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, c1990.  Call # R 820.9 B634.
• International Dictionary of Gender Roles, c1993.  Call # R 305.3 In61.
• Modern American Women Writers, c1991.  Call # R 810.9 M689.
• Mothers and Daughters of Invention:  Notes for a Revised History of Technology, 1993.  
  Call #  R 305.436 S787.
• Notable American Women 1607-1950, c1971.  Call # R 920.72 N899.
• Notable Hispanic American Women, c1993.  Call # R 920.72 N899.
• Women Who Ruled, c1990 Call # R 920.72 Ja12.
  

Below is a list of Subject Headings that will be helpful in locating books in the  COS Book Catalog  about "Women in U.S. History."  These subject headings can also be used as key words in the various magazine and newspaper databases the library offers.

Women and Art | Women and Business | Women and Crime | Women and Education | Women and Health | Women and the Law | Women and Literature | Women and the Military | Women Minorities | Women and Music | Women and Religion or Philosophy | Women and Science | Women and Sports | Women and U.S. History | Women, Society and Work

Women and Art

• Women costume designers- -History

• Women artists

• Women artists in literature

• Women in art- -History

• Women in the motion picture industry

• Women in the television industry

• Women motion picture producers and directors- -History

• Women painters- -Biography

 Women and Business

• Women executives

• Women in business- -United States- -History

• Women in finance

• Women-owned business enterprises

• Women- -Social networks

 Women and Crime

• Women correctional personnel

• Women murders

• Women prisoners

• Women- -Crimes against- -United States

 Women and Education                                                                         Back to Top

• Women college graduates

• Women college teachers- -History

• Women teachers

• Women- -Education

• Women teachers- -United States- -History

• Women’s education

• Women’s studies

 Women and Health

• History of Nursing

• Nurses and Nursing- -History

• Nursing- -History

• Women’s health services

• Women- -Diseases

• Women- -Health and hygiene

• Women- -Medical care

• Women- -Mental health

• Women- -Nutrition

• Women- -Physiology

• Women- -Psychology

Women and the Law

• Women lawyers

• Women legislators

• Women judges

• Women- -Legal status

Women and Literature                                                                            Back to Top

• American literature- -Women authors

• English fiction- -Women authors

• Literature- -Women authors

• Short Stories- -Women authors

• Short Stories, American- -Women authors

• Single women in literature

• Spanish fiction- -Women authors

• Women and literature- -History

• Women and literature- -Southern states- -History- -20thCentury

• Women and literature- -United States

• Women artists in literature

• Women as authors

• Women authors, American

• Women in literature

• Women journalists

• Women novelists

• Women poets

 Women and the Military

• United States- -Armed Forces--Women

• United States. Army Nurse Corps

• United States- -Army- -Women’s Army Core—Biography

• United States. Navy- -Women

• Women in the military

• Women soldiers

 Women Minorities

• Afro-American women

• Asian American Women

• Chinese American women

• Mexican American women

• Indians of North America- -Women

• Indian Women

• Women alien labor- -United States - -History

• Women immigrants

Women and Music                                                                                 Back to Top

• Women composers

• Women country musicians

• Women musicians

Women and Religion or Philosophy

• Women and religion- -United States- -History

• Women clergy

• Women in Christianity

• Women in the Bible

• Women in the Catholic Church

• Women in the Mormon Church

• Women in Rabbinical literature

• Women in Judaism

• Women philosophers

• Women, Christian

• Women, Jewish

• Women, Muslim

• Women, Quaker

• Women, Pentecostal

Women and Science

• History of nursing

• Nurses and nursing- -History

• Nursing--History

• Women architects

• Women conservationists

• Women engineers

• Women in medicine

• Women in technology

• Women inventors

• Women mathematicians

• Women naturalists

• Women physicians

• Women scientists

 Women and Sports                                                                                     Back to Top

• Women athletes

• Women jockeys

• Sports for women

Women and U.S. History

• Family- -West (U.S.)- -History

• Feminism- -United States- -History

• Frontier and pioneer life

• Housewives- -United States- -History

• Indentured servants

• Indian captivities

• Indian women

• Suffrage

• Suffragettes

• United States- -History- -Civil War, 1861-1865- -Personal narratives

• United States- -History- -Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives

• United States- -History- -Revolution, 1775-1783- -Women

• Woman- -History and condition of women  

• Women aircraft industry workers

• Women alien labor- -United States- -History

• Women and literature- -History

• Women and socialism

• Women colonists

• Women diplomats

• Women immigrants- -United States- -History

• Women in the labor movement- -United States- -History

• Women in politics- -United States- -History

• Women in public life

• Women in technology- -History

• Women in trade unions- -United States- -History- -20^th century

• Women of the Ku Klux Klan

• Women pioneers

• Women revolutionists

• Women slaves

• Women social reformers

• Women- -California- -History- -19^th Century

• Women- -Confederate States of America

• Women- -History

• Women- -Medical care- -United States- -History

• Women- -Suffrage

• Women- -United States- -Biography

• Women- -United States- -History

• Women- -United States- -Social Conditions        

• Women- -West (U.S.)- -History

• Women, Southern states- -History

• Women, Southwest, New

• Women’s rights

• World War, 1914-1918—Women

• World War, 1939-1945--Women

Women, Society and Work

• Poor women

• Working class women

• Women and peace

• Women and socialism

• Women cannery workers- -California

• Women civic leaders

• Women clerks

• Women clothing workers

• Women heads of household

• Women in motion pictures

• Women in politics

• Women in popular culture

• Women in public life

• Women in television

• Women in the labor movement

• Women in the professions

• Women in the television industry

• Women in trade unions

• Women journalists

• Women social reformers

• Women travelers

• Women volunteers in social service- -United States

• Women- -Economic conditions

• Women- -Employment- -United States- -History

• Women- -Social and moral questions

• Women- -Social conditions

• Women’s studies

• Women’s Temperance Crusade                                                             Back to Top

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