Exploring North Carolina: Women's History

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Overview of Women in North Carolina History

Introduction

Women's Roles in Precolonial and Colonial North Carolina

Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Statehood

Life in Antebellum North Carolina

Secession and Civil War

Women Help Shape the New South

Women Earn the Right to Vote

Activism and the Expansion of Women's Opportunities and Public Influence

Topics in North Carolina Women's History​

North Carolina Women's Colleges

Women of Somerset Place (historic plantation in North Carolina)

Edenton Tea Party (women's political activism in the American Revolution)

Nurses and Nursing History

Women in the Military (article with links to biographies and oral history interviews)

Struggle for Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage

Women in the 1920s in North Carolina

Women Suffrage

Women's Suffrage

The Suffrage Amendment

Gertrude Weil

Gertrude Weil

North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association

North Carolina Women Barrier-Breaking Moments Timeline

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North Carolina Historical and Primary Source Collections for Women's History

Women in North Carolina 20th Century History (NC Digital Collections)

Women, Marriage and the Law (NC Digital Collections)

Women's History Collections (UNC Greensboro)

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Other Historical and Primary Source Collections for Women's History

Women's History Digital Collections (Library of Congress)

Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard University Library)

History of Women in America (Harvard University, Schlesinger Library)

Women Striving Forward, 1910s-40s (Library of Congress Flickr)

Women's Liberation Print Culture (Duke University Libraries)

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)

Women's History Digital Classroom Resources (National Women's History Museum)

Women in Congress (History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives)

Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection (Digital Public Library of America)

Women in Science (Digital Public Library of America)

Female Leaders, History of Women in Telecom Industry

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Educator Resources

North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers Educational Activity Guide

State Library of North Carolina Women's History Research Guide