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Tennessee Women Making History

Spring 2015 Library Exhibition

Government Resources

Laws and Presidential Proclamations

The American Presidency Project 

Searchable online database of the Messages and Papers of the President
1789-2015

Compilation of Presidential Documents
begins in 1993

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
begins in 1991

Selection of Congressional Publications in paper and online

 

 

 

 

 

Women in Congress
1917-2006

Call Number: Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 14903

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS81008

Women's Rights are Human Rights: U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Call Number: Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.111-1143

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo31700

Women as Agents of Change: Advancing the Role of Women in Politics and Civil Soceity
Call Number: Y 4.F 76/1:111-97

http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps125120/56887.pdf

Women in Science and Technology
Call Number: Y 4.C 73/7:S.HRG.107-1125

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS61784

Women in Academic Science and Engineering
Call Number: Y 4.SCI 2:110-65

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS91069

Establishing a Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum
Call Number: Y 4.H 81/3:W 84

http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo46700

The Impact of Women's Growing Participation in the Workforce:
"The Shriver Report: A Women's Nation Changes Everything

Call Number: Y 4.ED 8/1:111-39

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS121474

The Impact of the Equal Rights Amendment
Call Number Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.98-1259/pt.1-2

Format: paper only

 

Selection of Documents

American Women

Call Number: LC 2.8:W 84

 

 

 

Women's Rights National History Trail Feasibility Study

Call Number: I 29.2:W 84/3

 

 

 

 

Voice of America
Interviews with Eight American Women of Achievement

Call Number: IA 1.2:V 87/8

 

 

 

Women's Rights in the United States of America

Call Number: CR 1.10:57

 

 

 

 

Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment

Call Number: CR 1.10:56

 

 

 

 

Honoring Our Past: Report and Recommendations
President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History

Call Number: PR 42.8:W 84/3/H 75

Format: online and paper

 

 

Equal Pay: A Thirty-Five Year Perspective

Call Number: L 36.102:EQ 2/3

 

 

 

 

Women in the U.S. Armed Forces

Call Number: D 1.95:W 84/CD

 

Format: CD

 

 

Millennium Evenings at the White House
Women as Citizens: Vital Voices Through the Century

Call Number: PREX 1.21:M 61/

 

Format: Video

 

 

The Blackwell Family Carrie Chapman Catt and the National American Woman Suffrage Association

A Register of Their Papers in the Library of Congress

Call Number: LC 4.10:44

 

 

 

Milestones: The Women's Bureau Celebrates 65 Years of Women's Labor History

Call Number: L 36.102:M 59

 

 

 

 

Special History Study
Women's Rights


Call Number: I 29.2:W 84/2

 

Women Come to the Front:
Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters during World War II

Call Number: LC 1.2:W 84

 

 

 

 

 

Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States Department of Labor Data and Statistics

Women in the Labor Force

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Center for Education Statistics