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​​Biographical Collections / ​Museums and Online Exhibits / ​Digital Primary Source Collections / ​Blogs, Publications, and Projects / Wikipedia, Podcasts & Other Digital Media / Teaching Resources  / Bibliographies and Databases of Historical Research / ​Allied Professional Organizations

If you manage or know of resources that you would like to see on this list, please contact one of the current Women's Caucus co-chairs.

Biographical Collections

Archives of the Society of Women Engineers
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Agnes Scott College

Borinqueña
A blog featuring profiles of Puerto Rican women in science and technology​, including historical figures.
Ciencia Puerto Rico

Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
National Anthropological Archives

Celebrating Women's Achievements
Library & Archives Canada

Chemical Heritage Foundation: Historical Biographies
Includes many women chemists.
​Chemical Heritage Foundation
​Cold Spring Harbor Oral History Site
Interviews with scientists documenting their experiences at the CSH Laboratory.

Contributions of 20th c. Women to Physics
University of California, Los Angeles

Early Women in Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library

ECHO: Women in Science & Engineering
Center for New Media Studies, George Mason University

History of Women @ University of Wisconsin
Includes Flickering Clusters on women and science education.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
NASA Oral History (scroll down for "Herstory"), see also Women@NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Profiles in Science
US National Library of Medicine

ScienceMakers
A collection of archival documents and interviews with African American scientists
The History Makers

The Human Computer Project
Celebrating the pioneering women who worked as mathematicians and "computers" at the NACA and NASA in the early days of aeronautics and the American space program.​

TrowelBlazers
Celebrating women in archaeology, geology, and paleontology.
University Women's International Networks Database
Biographies of female academics who were closely affiliated with the International Federation of University Women (IFUW), 1917-1955.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

WISE: Women in Science & Engineering
Iowa State University Library

Women in Ecology, Then and Now
Ecological Society of America Historical Records Committee

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Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society
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Biographical resources on anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, 
Webster University

Museums and Online Exhibits

A Thin Blue Line:  A History of the Pregnancy Test Kit 
Office of NIH History
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Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Virginia, Eugenics, and Buck v. Bell
University of Virginia, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library​

Eugenics Archives
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 Library of Congress
Online exhibits:
Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture

Linda Hall Library: Science, Engineering & Technology Information for the World
Online exhibits:
Women's Work: Portraits of 12 Scientific Illustrators from the 17th to the 21st Century

Maria Mitchell Association and House
Nantucket, MA (USA)

National Museum of American History
Women’s History Resources  
Women Mathematicians at NMAH
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National Women's History Museum
Online exhibits:
A History of Women in Industry
Breaking In: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics​​​
​Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Portal
Online exhibits:
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: A Book that Changed the World

The Science Museum​: making the Modern World
Online exhibits:
Women making the modern world

Smithsonian Institution Archives 
Curated archival images: Women in Science

​US National Library of Medicine
Online exhibits:
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians

Online Primary Source Collections

American Social Hygiene Posters, 1910-1970
Social Welfare History Archives
University of Minnesota Libraries​
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Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
Michigan State University Library
HEARTH: Home Economics Archive
Cornell University Library

History of Science Collections
University of Oklahoma Library

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Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences Online
MATRIX houses major digital library repositories including the African Online Digital Library, Detroit Pubic Television’s American Black Journal video archives, Historical Voices, and The Quilt Index.
Michigan State University
​​Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700
Dorothy Disse
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Women and Botany: 18th and early 19th c. England 
Michigan State University Library

Blogs, Publications, and Projects

Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program
Winston-Salem Journal and JournalNow.com

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Ada Lovelace Day
An international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math.
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Ada Project 
Resources on women and computing.

Carnegie Mellon University

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Darwin and Gender
A blog for the gender research stream.
Darwin Correspondence Project

Distillations
Chemical Heritage Foundation

Feminist Philosophers
Group blog about feminist philosophy and women philosophers.

Gendered Innovations
Employs sex and gender analysis as a resource to create new knowledge and technology.
Stanford University

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Anita Borg Institute
Lady Science
A collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. 

Nursing Clio
An open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine.

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Psychology's Feminist Voices
York University, Canada
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Science Visions
Blog of the Philosophy of Science Association's Women's Caucus
TrowelBlazers
Celebrating women in archaeology, geology, and paleontology.

WISRNet
Exploring women's participation in science & learned societies in Britain, 1830-2000.
Women in Science Research Network
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Women's History Month
The Library of Congress
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Gallery of Art
National Park Service
Smithsonian Institution
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
US National Archives and Records Administration

Women in Science Project
Michigan State University

Wikipedia, Podcasts & Other Digital Media

​Linking In: How Historians Are Fighting Wikipedia's Biases
​Perspectives on History, American Historical Association

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WikiEdu
Podcast Episode: Harassment in the Lab [2017.12.02]
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Podcast Episode: When Women Stopped Coding [2014.10.17]
NPR: Planet Money 

Podcast: Lady Science 
Monthly podcast from Lady Science editors on issues related to women, gender, and science

Teaching Resources

American Institute of Physics:  Teaching Guides on Women and Minorities
Over 40 teaching guides that highlight the historical contributions of women and minorities to the physical sciences. These teaching guides meet national educational standards and can fit into social and natural science courses. 

Doing Biology
Includes lessons on Lynn Margulis, Nettie Stevens, and Rachel Carson.

Facing History and Ourselves
A non-profit organization that provides teaching resources for engaging students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. Includes material on the history of eugenics and racial science. 


National Museum of American History 
Women’s History Resources
Includes lesson planning guides.

​SHiPS Resource Center
For science teachers using Sociology, History and Philosophy of Science.
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Women, Gender & Science
Curriculum Module: Women in Science: Maria Merian & Hildegard von Bingen
Rachel Carson & Silent Spring

Syllabus Project
Women's Caucus of the History of Science Society

The Syllabus Project: Decolonizing the Env. History Syllabus 
​Twitterstorian-sourced Zotero bibliography to aid in diversifying environmental history syllabi

Bibliographies and Databases of Historical Research

African-American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
Library of Congress

Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender
Binghamton University

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IsisCB
Current bibliography of the history of science.
History of Science Society
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement
Library of Congress

Women and Minorities in Science and Technology: 
A Guide to Selected Resources

Library of Congress

Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders
Library of Congress

Allied Professional Organizations

​AmericanScience
Sponsored by the Forum for the History of Science in America, an interest group within the History of Science Society.

Commission on Women and Gender Studies
Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (DHST/IUHPS)

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Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History (EDITH)
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group EDITH supports scholars and scholarship currently underrepresented in the history of technology and SHOT. 
Forum for the History of Science in Asia 

​Graduate and Early Career Caucus
History of Science Society
Seeks to address the concerns and issues of graduate students and scholars in the early stages of their careers. GECC offers a mentoring program and sponsors a session and social events at the annual meeting.

HSS at Work
Devoted to improving opportunities and support for historians of science (and related scholars) interested in employment options beyond the academy.

Joint Caucus of Socially Engaged Philosophers and Historians of Science​
Founded to promote research, educational and public activities in history and philosophy of science that constructively engages matters of social welfare.

Philosophy of Science Association Women's Caucus

Women Also Know History
A media and curriculum tool for promoting the work of women historians.  @womnknowhistory

Women's Environmental History Network (WEHN)
A space for newcomers to environmental history to meet with and network with senior scholars in the field, particularly women seeking role models as they chart their professional paths.

Women in Technological History (WITH)
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group. 

If you encounter an expired link on this page, or if you manage or know of resources that you would like to see included, please contact one of the current Women's Caucus co-chairs.

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