Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2008
Regional Learning Project, University of Montana
Web Resources
Year Three – Unit One: WWII and Its Aftermath
Week Four: The Changing Role of Women
Women in WWII
Women in the Weather Bureau During World War II.
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/women.html
Provides images of women in this service, an overview of the service and women’s
roles in it, and the personal statements of many of the women who worked there.
The Women’s Army Corps, U.S. Army Center for Military History
http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/wac/wac.htm
Essay and photos on women in the Army Corps.
Women’s Contributions to the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/Vignettes/Vignette_16.htm
Looks at the role women played in the Corps of Engineers during WWII.
Native American Women with Military Service, nativewomenveterans.org.
http://www.nativewomenveterans.org/index.html
Profiles native women in the military.
Women in the Manhattan Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/Vignettes/Vignette_46.htm
Examines the role women played in the Manhattan Project.
The Way We Worked: Photographs from the National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/
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An exhibit from the National Archives of photographs of work in the U.S. from the late 19 to
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late 20 century.
GOOD WORK SISTER! Women Shipyard Worker of WWII, an oral history.
The Northwest Women's History Project
http://www.goodworksister.org/
Oral histories of women who worked in shipyards during WWII. See their list of links and
sources!
Working Women of WWII – Primary Documents: The Editorial Cartoon, A Lesson Plan
from The Department of Education of The National D-Day Museum.
http://www.ddaymuseum.org/pdf/edu_lp_Cartoons.pdf
Provides a lesson plan for both grades 5-8 and 9-12 that focuses on editorial cartoons of
working women.
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2008
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Rosie Pictures: American Women Workers during World War II, Library of
Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/126_rosi.html#black
A collection of digital images, including photographs, posters, and cartoons, about
women at work during WWII.
Rosie the Riveter, WWII/Home Front National Historical Park.
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/
Provides extensive information about Rosie the Riveter and women in WWII, including
articles, images and oral histories.
Rosie the Riveter, National Parks Service.
http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm
Online exhibit from the NPS focusing on women at work during WWII, including images,
photos, artifacts, and stories.
World War II Posters: Women, about.com.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexww2women.htm
a collection of posters from WWII aimed at and about women, focusing on work in the
military and industry, and the roles that women could play in the war.
The Home Front, Owen’s Archive.
http://www.owensarchive.com/world-war-ii/homefront/cat_158.html
Images of the home front, especially women at work, during WWII. This website also
has images from the Civil War, WWI, Hollywood celebrities, aviation, and cities.
French, American & British Wartime Fashions, By Jan Bayley
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/article/fashion/fashion.htm
Profiles fashions in three countries during the War, with special emphasis on why changes
in fashion occurred.
Dial a Decade for Shoes – 1940s
http://www.centuryinshoes.com/decades/1940/1940.html
Images and discussion of trends in women’s shoes during WWII. This website profiles
shoe fashions by decade from the 1900s to the 1960s.
A Suit for Him, A Suit for Her 1944, History Wired, Smithsonian Institution
http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=505
Looks at men’s and women’s fashion and designers during the war.
Postwar
Urban Indians and Seattle’s Civil Rights History, Seattle Civil Right and Labor
History Project.
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/UrbanIndians.htm
Includes oral histories, maps, newspaper reports and other documents on Seattle’s
Indian rights movement.
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Indian Center News Digital Archive, 1960-1971: American Indian Women’s
Service League, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/indiancenternews.htm
Digital collection of the newspaper.
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American Indian Women’s Service League 45 Reunion.
http://sisconline.org/aiwsl_reunion/index.htm
Photos from the reunion.
The Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Although not the only collection on the Internet Archive that offers films about women and
many other topics, this collection does showcase over 60,000 ephemeral (nonfiction films
used in advertising, education, etc.). Browse by collection, subject, or title.
The Pill, American Experience, PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/index.html
Looks at the history of the birth control pill from both a scientific and social
perspective.
Living the Legacy: The Women’s Rights Movement, 1848-1998, National Women’s
History Project.
http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html#Intro
Essay on the history of the women’s rights movement.
The Feminist Chronicles, Feminist Majority Foundation.
http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1953.html
An annotated timeline of political, economic, and social events related to the women’s
movement.
TV Families of the Fifties, The Fifties Web
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/families.htm
Looks at notable families portrayed in television shows.
How to be a Good Housewife.
http://jade.ccccd.edu/grooms/goodwife.htm
Excerpt from a 1954 Home Economics textbook.
Women in the 1950s Workplace, University of Maryland.
http://www.honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/projects/hchunt/main.htm
Looks at the transition of working women from WWII through the 1950s.
Beating the Bra Burners, Eagle Forum
http://www.eagleforum.org/george/george.html
Essay on the defeat of the ERA. For a short history of the ERA, see
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1986/sept86/psrsep86.html.
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“Politics Is a Pretty Personal Thing with Women”: A 1950s Look at the Impact of
Women Voters, History Matters.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6563/
Looks at the impact female voters had on the politics of the 1950s.