Women in History Matrix
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Women in History Matrix (Last updated August 2006) Some titles in this matrix are picture books with spare text, some are full biographies, and some are collections of shorter biographies about several women (marked bio; group). All focus on important (though not necessarily always famous) women in history. Author Adler, D. Anderson, Laurie Armstrong, C. Bolden, T. Borden, L., & Kroeger, M.K. Brown, D. Brown. D. Brown. D. Brown. D. Chang, I. Colman, P. Colman, P. Dash, J. Title Type Difficulty Woman/ Women Highlighted Picture Book of Sojourner Truth, A Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanskgiving Women of the Bible Bio; individual NF/P Medium Sojourner Truth Med Sarah Hale Bio; group Medium And Not Afraid to Dare Fly High! Bio; group Medium Bio; individual Easy 17 women in both Old and New Testaments 10 African American women Bessie Colman Alice Ramsey’s Grand Adventure Ruth Law Thrills a Nation Uncommon Traveler Voices from the Wilderness A Separate Battle: Women in the Civil War Rosie the Riveter Where the Action Was We Shall Not Be Nonfiction Easy Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual Nonfiction, diaries, letters, bio Nonfiction Nonfiction; memoirs Nonfiction Role in History Setting (Time and/or Place) Abolitionist U.S. 1800s Author, publisher, activist 19th C Biblical Biblical times Courageous Aviator U.S.; 18th—20th centuries U.S., early 1900s 3 women Adventurers U.S., early 1900s Easy Ruth Law Aviator U.S. early 1900s Easy Mary Kingsley Adventurers Easy Women’s suffrage GED Anna Howard Shaw Variety England and Africa; 19th century U.S. 1800s Affected by Civil War U.S. 18th century Medium Medium Variety Variety Women in WW II Journalists in WW II Medium Variety Workers; social U.S. 1930s-40s Europe, Asia; mid 1940s New York; early Notes First African American woman to earn pilot’s license Drove cross country Shirtwaist Moved Author activists Title Type Difficulty Woman/ Women Highlighted Medium Nellie Bly GED Martha Graham GED Eleanor Roosevelt Med. Fredeen, C. Nellie Bly Freedman, R. Freedman, R. Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life Eleanor Roosevelt Hansen, J. African Princess Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual NF/P Hansen, J. Women of Hope Bio; group Easy Hazell, R. Heroines Bio; group Easy 6 African princesses 13 African American women 12 women Jemison, M. Find Where the Wind Goes Angels of Mercy Autobio; individual Nonfiction Medium Mae Jemison Medium Variety Poetry Easy Harriet Tubman Nonfiction GED Variety Bio/Poet. Med 13 outstanding women Bio; individual GED Ka’iulani, Crown Princess of Hawaii Bio; individual Bio; individual His. Fiction GED Kuhn, B. Lawrence, J. Levinson, N. Lewis, J. Patrick Linnea, S. Lyons, M. Matthews, T. McCully, E. Harriet and the Promised Land She’s Been Working on the Railroad Verses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People Sorrow’s Kitchen Light Shining Through the Mist Pirate Queen, The Role in History Journalist; social activist Dancer; choreographer First lady; social activist Ancient Egypt to present Variety Important contributions 1st woman of color to become astronaut Army nurses in WW II Abolitionist 1900s Setting (Time and/or Place) U.S. turn of 20th century U.S. 20th century industry Notes Investigative reporter U.S.; 20th century U.S.; 19th—20th centuries Early Greece through 20th century U.S.; 20th century Europe, Asia, U.S.; 1930s-40s U.S.; mid-1800s Railroad workers U.S.; mid-1800s to present Athletes, poets, painters, statewomen, activists Monarch 19th C-20th C Author Early 20th century Medium Zora Neale Hurston Dian Fossey Zoologist Easy Grania O’Malley Pirate Africa, U.S.; 20th century Elizabethan England Hawaii, U.S.; late 19th century Studied and tried to protect gorillas Based on a true story Author Title Type Difficulty Woman/ Women Highlighted Role in History Setting (Time and/or Place) McGill, A. Molly Bannaky Bio; individual Easy Molly Bannaky Freed slave U.S.; 1600s McGovern, A. Wanted Dead or Alive Ten Queens Bio; individual Bio; group Easy Harriet Tubman Abolitionist U.S.; 19th century Medium Variety Monarchs Buffalo Gals: Women of the Old West Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land Nonfiction GED Variety Nonfiction GED Variety Famous and ordinary women of the US West. Famous and ordinary women of early America 5th century BC to 18th century Western U.S.; 18th and 19th centuries Moss, M. Brave Harriet Bio; individual Easy Harriet Quimby O’Dell, S. Streams to the River, River to the Sea Let It Shine Historical fiction GED Sacagawea Bio; individuals Bio Medium African American leaders Daisy Bates Bio; individual Bio; individual Historical fiction Medium Medium Amelia Earhart; Eleanor Roosevelt Poetry; bio Easy Edna St. Vincent Millay Meltzer, M. Miller, B.M. Miller, B.M. Pinkney, A. Polakow, Amy Porter, A.P. Daisy Bates, Civil Rights Crusader Jump at De Sun Reich, S. Clara Schumann Ryan, P. M. Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Edna St. Vincent Millay Schoonmaker, F. Diff Medium Zora Neale Hurston Clara Schumann Colonial U.S. Aviator U.S. and Europe; early 20th century Native American guide U.S.; 18th century “Freedom fighters” U.S.; 19th and 20th centuries 20th C. USA Civil Rights Leader in Little Rock, AR Author Musician Aviator; First Lady/ Social activist Author U.S.; early 20th century Europe; 19th century U.S.; 1940s U.S.; 19th century Notes Benjamin Banneker’s grandma White, African American, and Native American women featured 1st woman with pilot’s license; 1st woman to fly across English Channel Lewis and Clark’s guide Civil Rights; abolition Bio Wife of Robert Schumann Poetry featured more than biography Author Title Schroeder, A. Minty Stanley, D. Cleopatra Stanley, D. Joan of Arc Stanley, D., & Venema, P. Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England Last Princess, The Stanley, F. Stanley, J. Szabo, C. Big Annie of Calumet Sky Pioneer Thomas, J.C. I Have Heard of a Land Winter, J. Librarian of Basra, The My Name is Georgia Winter, J. Type Difficulty Woman/ Women Highlighted Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual Easy Harriet Tubman Medium Cleopatra Medium Role in History Setting (Time and/or Place) Notes Abolitionist U.S.; 19th century Focuses on childhood Monarch Ancient Egypt Joan of Arc Martyr Medium Elizabeth I Monarch France; Middle Ages England; 17th century Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual Bio; individual Medium Monarch Medium Ka’iulani, Crown Princess of Hawaii Annie Clemenc Easy Amelia Earhart Easy Unnamed African American woman Homesteader NF/P Easy Bio; individual Easy Alia Muhammad Baker Georgia O’Keefe Protector of library in Basra, Iraq Artist Labor organizer Aviator Hawaii, U.S.; late 19th century U.S.; early 20th century U.S.; early 20th century Western U.S.; late 19th century 21st C, Iraq Western U.S.; 20th century Led miners’ strike of 1913 Stakes a homestead claim in Oklahoma; based on a true story
