It’s Women’s History Month; thus an appropriate time to reflect on women in history as seen in newspapers. Chronicling America‘s newspapers from 1836-1922 help capture an integral period of time in the women’s history: here we see the growing effort for suffrage and equal rights, the passage of the 19th Amendment, and the emergence of such pioneering women as Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothy Dix, and so many more.
The Topics page on Chronicling America contains a number of intriguing women’s history topics, from developments in women’s sporting fashion to Clara Barton’s founding of the American Red Cross; see them below:
- Clara Barton (1881-1904)
- Dollar Princesses (1874-1910)
- Hello Girls (1898-1922)
- Bachelor Maids (1894-1918)
- Bicycle Fashion (1887-1898)
- Dorothy Dix (1904-1920)
- Eva Tanguay (1901-1922)
- Flappers (1919-1922)
- The Gibson Girl (1895-1908)
- Sissieretta Jones (1889-1911)
- Emma Goldman: McKinley Assassination Conspirator? (1901)
- Carrie Nation, “Saloon Smasher” (1900-1911)
- Typhoid Mary (1907-1915)
- The Nineteenth Amendment (1890-1920)
- Bloomer Girls (1897-1909)
Happy searching!
To learn more specifically about Vermont women in history, visit the Vermont Historical Society’s “Vermont Women in History” database.