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Nellie Bly

• Beasley, Maurine Hoffman and Sheila Jean Gibbons. Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism. Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1993.
• Christensen, Bonnie. The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003. [for ages 4-8]
• Davidson, Sue. Getting the Real Story: Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells. Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 1992.
• Gazzillo, Rosemary. “Nellie Bly 1864-1922, the Best Reporter in America,” College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, 10 December 1998, www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html.
• Krensky, Stephen and Rebecca Guay. Nellie Bly: A Name to Be Reckoned with. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003. [for ages 4-8]
• Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1995. 
• “Nellie Bly,’ Public Broadcasting Service, 2000 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/peopleevents/pande01.html.
• “Nellie Bly,” National Women’s Hall of Fame, n.d., www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=23.
• "The American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days." PBS<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/filmmore/index.html>.
• "Nellie Bly: The Best Reporter in America." College of Staten Island Library10 Dec. 1998. <http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html>.
• "U.S. Postal Service Pays Tribute to Four Outstanding Women in Journalism: Nellie Bly, Marguerite Higgins, Ethel L. Payne, and Ida M. Tarbell to Be Honored on U.S. Postage Stamps." Philatelic Times 20 Aug. 2002. <http://www.usps.com/news/2002/philatelic/sr02_056.htm>.

Belle Boyd

• Hay, Thomas Robson. “Belle Boyd,” in Notable American Women:  A Biographical Dictionary.  Volume 1.  Cambridge MA:  Harvard University Press, 1971.
• Horan, James D.  Desperate Women.  New York:  Putnam’s, 1952.
• Leonard, Elizabeth.  All the Daring of the Soldier:  Women of the Civil War Armies.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 1999.
• Noland, Jeannette Covert.  Belle Boyd:  Secret Agent.  New York: Messner, 1967.
• Sigaud, Louis A.  Belle Boyd:  Confederate Spy.  1944.
• Weatherford, Doris.  American Women’s History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, Issues, and Events. New York, NY:  Prentice Hall General Reference, 1994.     

Ruby Bridges

• Bridges, Ruby. I Am Ruby Bridges. New York : Scholastic Inc., 2009.
• Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. New York : Scholastic Press, 1999.
• Lambert, Laura J., “Ruby Bridges,” in Doris Weatherford, ed.,  A History of Women in the United States:  State-by-State Reference (Scholastic, 2003), Vol. 2, p. 118.
• Nell Bridges, Ruby. “The Education of Ruby Nell.” Ruby Bridges Foundation 2000 <http://www.rubybridges.org/story.htm>.
• "Ruby Bridges." Who's Who Among African Americans, 21st ed. Gale, 2008.
• Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.

Laura Bridgman

• Freeberg, Ernest. The Education of Laura Bridgman : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language.  Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Gitter, Elisabeth. The Imprisoned Guest : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
• Lobb, Nancy. 16 Extraordinary Americans with Disabilities. Portland, Me. : J. Weston Walch, 2001.
• Schwartz, Howard. “Laura Bridgman” in Notable American Women, vol. 1, 240-41.
• Berke, Jamie. "Deafblind People - Laura Bridgman and Julia Brace." About. 29 Nov. 2007. <http://deafness.about.com/cs/deafblind/a/laurajulia.htm>.
• Halnon, Mary, comp. "Charles Dickens: American Notes." Women in America. Jan. 1997. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/fem/dickens.htm>.
• Ruark, Jennifer K. "Unearthing 'the Original Helen Keller'" ConnSENSE Bulletin. 6 Apr. 2001. <http://www.connsensebulletin.com/keller.html>.

Alice Coachman

• Wiggins, David K. Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
• “Alice Coachman”. AETNA. <http://www.aetna.com/foundation/aahcalendar/1991coachman.html>.
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Lisa A. Ennis. <http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp>.

Anna Dickinson

• Chester, Giraud.  Embattled Maiden:  The Life of Anna Dickinson. Putnam, 1951.
• Gallman, J. Matthew.  America’s Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.  Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, in Doris Weatherford, ed.  A History of Women in the United States:  A State-by-State Reference.  Scholastic/Grolier, 2003.
• http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/21285.
• http://www.historyswomen.com/socialreformer/AnnaElizabethDickinson.html
• http://www.josephhaworth.com/anna_dickinson.html

Marie Dorion

• Peltier, Jerome.  Madame Dorion. Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press, 1980.
• Schmerber, Ruth. Only the Earth : the Story of Marie Dorion. 1990.
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. “Marie Dorion” in Doris Weatherford’s A History of Women in the United States, vol 1., 354.
• "Marie Dorion." Malachite's Big Hole. <http://home.att.net/~mman/DorionsWife.htm>.
• "Marie Dorion." Oregon History. <http://www.oregon.com/history/hm/marie_dorion.cfm>.
• http://museum.bmi.net/MARIE%20DORION%20PEOPLE/marie_laguisvoise.htm

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

• Archer, Jules. Famous young rebels. New York, Messner ,1973.
• Camp, Helen C. Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left. Pullman, Wash.: WSU Press, 1995.
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. Women Have a Date with Destiny. New York: Worker’s Library Publishers, 1944.
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. Words on fire : the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn . ed. Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. The Rebel Girl; an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926). New York, International Publishers, 1973.
  
• Lewis, Jone Johnson. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/elizabethgurleyflynn/a/rebel_girl.htm>. 
• American Civil Liberties Union. About Us. <http://www.aclu.org/about/index.html>.  
• Tedford, Thomas L. and Herbeck, Dale A. Smith Act of 1940. 2005. <http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/smithactof1940.html>.
• Kizer, Benjamin F. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. 2005. <http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7309>.  
• Spartacus. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAflynn.htm>.  
• Red Biography. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. 2002. <http://reds.linefeed.org/bios/flynn.html>. 
• Phillips, Lisa. “Flynn. Elizabeth Gurley.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar202430>.

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

• Birney, Catherine H. The Grimké sisters; Sarah and Angelina Grimké, the first American women advocates of abolition and woman’s rights. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1969.
• Ceplair, Larry. The Public years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké : selected writings, 1835-1839. New York : Columbia University Press, 1989.
• Grimké, Angelina Emily. Appeal to the Christian women of the South. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
• Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké sisters from South Carolina; rebels against slavery. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
• Levinson, Nancy Smiler. The first women who spoke out. Minneapolis, Minn.: Dillon Press, 1983.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

• Forten, Charlotte.  The Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era.  New York: Norton, 1981.
• Stevenson, Brenda.  The Journals of Charlotte Forten.  New York: Oxford Press, 1988.
• Women in History. Charlotte Forten Grimke biography <http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/grim-cha.htm>.
• Charlotte Forten Grimke. Voices from the Gaps. <http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/index.html>.
• Only a Teacher; Schoolhouse Pioneers. PBS.   <http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/charlotte.html>.  

Betsy Hagar

• Green, Clinton Harry, and Mary Wolcott Green. The Pioneer Mothers of America. 3 vols. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912. 208-217.
• Weatherford, Doris. History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, and Events. 1994 ed. New York:  Prentice Hall General Reference, 1994.
• Betsy Hager Chapter History. May 2006. National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8019/bhchpt.html>.

Louisa Lane

• Drew, Louisa Lane. Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew. (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1899).
• Kleinfield, H.L. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Edward T. James, Vol 1, p. 521-522.
• Hoffman, Carol Stein. The Barrymores: Hollywood’s First Family. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001).
• Peters, Margot. The House of Barrymore. (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1990).
• "Drew." Classic Encyclopedia. 5 Sept. 2006.<http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Drew>.  
• "Louisa Lane Drew." Find a Grave. 1 Aug. 2002.<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6652388>. 
• “Louisa Lane Drew," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007 <http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2007 Microsoft Corporation> 
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• "The Barrymores." Explore PA History. 2003. <http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=820>.

Lucy Larcom

• Baldwin, David. “Lucy Larcom” in Notable American Women, vol 2, 368-69.
• Kirkland, Winifred and Frances. Girls Who Made Good. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
• Larcom, Lucy. A New England Girlhood: outlined from memory. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1986.
• Selden, Bernice. The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley. New York: Antheneum, 1983.
• “Lucy Larcom.”  The Larcom Family Tree. 5 April 2008.  <http://www.larcomfamilytree.com/lucy/index.html>.
• "Lucy Larcom." Virtual American Biographies. 2001. Virtualology. <http://famousamericans.net/lucylarcom/>.

Sybil Ludington

• Amstel, Marsha.  Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride.  Minneapolis:  Carolrhoda Books, 2000.
• Berry, Erick.  Sybil Ludington’s Ride.  New York:  Viking Press, 1952.
• Brown, Drollene P.  Sybil Rides for Independence.  Niles, IL:  A. Whitman, 1985.
• Howell, Pat.  Danbury’s Burning!  The Story of Sybil Ludington’s Ride.  New York:  H.Z. Walck, 1976.
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. “Sybil Ludington” in Doris’ Weatherford’s A History of Women in the United States, vol 1, 243-44.
• Weatherford, Doris. Milestones: A Chronology of American Women’s History. Facts on File, 1997, 31, 326.
• Winnick, Karen B.  Sybil’s Night Ride.  Honesdale, PA:  Boyds Mills Press, 2000.
• James, Mrs. Todd. "Sybil Ludington: the Female Paul Revere." National Society of the
• Daughters of the American Revolution: Sasebo Chapter, Sasebo, Japan. <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1789/sybil.html>.
• Johnson Lewis, Jone. "Sybil Ludington." About. <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/waramrevolution/p/ludington_ride.htm>.
• "Sybil Ludington." Danbury Museum and Historical Society. <http://www.danburyhistorical.org/Ludington.html>.

Betsey Metcalf and Mary Kies

• Abbott, Edith.  Women in Industry.  New York:  Appleton & Co., 1909.
• Authelet, Jack. Foxborough:Gem of Norfolk County. Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 
• Campbell, Helen.  Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future.  Boston:  Roberts Brothers, 1893.
• Mary (Dixon) Kies, America’s First Female Patent Holder. 2005. Killingly Historical Society. <http://www.killinglyhistory.org/jol7/page5.htm> 
• Mary Kies-Patenting Pioneer. <http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkies.htm> 
• Process for Weaving Straw January 2004. Inventor of the Week. <http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/kies.html> 
• Straw Hats. Village Hat Shop. <http://www.villagehatshop.com/facts_strawhats.html> 

Maria Mitchell

• Baker, Rachel. American’s First Woman Astronomer, Maria Mitchell. New York: J. Messner, 1960.
• Bergland, Renee. Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
• Mitchell, Henry. Biographical Notice of Maria Mitchell. 1889.
• Wayne, Bennett. Women Who Dared to be Different. Champaign, Ill: Garrard Pub. Co., 1973.
• Wright, Helen. Sweeper in the Sky; The Life of Maria Mitchell. New York: Macmillan Co., 1949.
• Wright, Helen. “Maria Mitchell” in Notable American Women, vol 2, 554-56.
• "Fun Facts to Know and Tell About Maria Mitchell." University of Michigan Library. University of Michigan. <http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/images/MariaMitchellFacts.pdf>.
• "Maria Mitchell." Windows to the Universe. 27 Mar. 1997. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
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• "Maria Mitchell." Infoplease.© 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease.
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• "Maria Mitchell Association." Home and Abroad: Matching People to Places. <http://www.homeandabroad.com/c/101/Site/
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• Takei, Leslie. "Maria Mitchell." SJSU Virtual Museum. San Jose State University. <http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/library/history/mmitch.html>.

Alexandra Nechita

• Comer Bell, Suzanne, ed. Outside the Lines: Paintings by Alexandra Nechita. Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 1996.
• "Alexandra Nechita." 2003. <http://www.nechita.info/>.

Cynthia Ann Parker

• DeShields, James T.  Cynthia Ann Parker:  The Story of her Capture.  St. Louis, 1886; reprinted New York:  Garland, 1976
• Exley, Jo Ella Powell.  Frontier Blood:  The Saga of the Parker Family.  College Station:  Texas A&M University, 2001
• Jackson, Grace.  Cynthia Ann Parker.  San Antonio:  Naylor, 1959
• Meyer, Carolyn.  Where the Broken Heart Still Beats:  The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker.  San Diego:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992
• Robson, Lucia St. Clair.  Ride the Wind:  The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche.  New York:  Ballantine, 1982
• Hacker, Margaret. "Cynthia Ann Parker: a Texas Legend." Lone Star Internet. 02 Aug.
• 2004. <http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/CynthiaAnnParker.htm>. 
• Hacker, Margaret. "Parker, Cynthia Ann." Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. <http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/fpa18.html>. 
• White, Julia. "Cynthia Ann Parker." Women Spirit. <http://www.powersource.com/gallery/womansp/cynthia.html>.

Anna Claypoole Peale

• Elam, Charles H.  The Peale Family:  Three Generations of American Artists.  Detroit:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967.
• Hunter, Harvey Wilbur.  The Peale Family and Peale’s Baltimore Museum, 1814-1830.  Baltimore:  The Peale Museum, 1965.
• Hunter, Harvey Wilbur, and John Mahey.  Miss Sarah Miriam Peale, 1800-1885, Portraits and Still Life.  Baltimore:  The Peale Museum, 1967.
• King, Joan. Sarah M. Peale: America's First Woman Artist. Branden Books, 1987.
• Miller, Lillian B.  The Peale Family:  Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870.  New York:  Abbeville Press, 1996
• Sellers, Charles Coleman. “Peale” in Doris Weatherford’s Notable American Women, vol 3, pgs. 38-40.
•  “Anna Claypoole Peale.” 2008. National Museum of Women in the Arts. <http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=664>.  
• “Anna Claypoole Peale.” Maryland Art Source. <http://www.marylandartsource.org/artists/detail_000000060.html>.  
• “Anna Claypoole Peale.” 2008.  Ask ART. <http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=25050>. 
• “James Peale.” Worcester Art. <http://www.worcesterart.org/>.  
• Hishorn, Anna Sue. “Portraits in Miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky.” 1 February 2002. The Magazine Antiques. <http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-82782192.html>.  

Sarah Peale

• Elam, Charles H.  The Peale Family:  Three Generations of American Artists.  Detroit:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967.
• Hunter, Harvey Wilbur.  The Peale Family and Peale’s Baltimore Museum, 1814-1830.  Baltimore:  The Peale Museum, 1965.
• Hunter, Harvey Wilbur, and John Mahey.  Miss Sarah Miriam Peale, 1800-1885, Portraits and Still Life.  Baltimore:  The Peale Museum, 1967.
• King, Joan. Sarah M. Peale: America's First Woman Artist. Branden Books, 1987.
• Miller, Lillian B.  The Peale Family:  Creation of a Legacy, 1770-1870.  New York:  Abbeville Press, 1996
• King, Joan. Sarah M. Peale: America's First Woman Artist. Branden Books, 1987.
• Sellers, Charles Coleman. “Peale” in Doris Weatherford’s Notable American Women, vol 3, pgs. 38-40.
• "Sarah Miriam Peale." Maryland Art Source. The Baltimore Art Research & Outreach Consortium. <http://www.marylandartsource.org/artists/detail_000000042.html>.
• “Sarah Miriam Peale.” 2008. National Museum of Women in the Arts. <http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=665> 
• “Sarah Miriam Peale.” 2008. Ask ART. <http://www.askart.com/AskART/P/sarah_miriam_peale/sarah_miriam_peale.aspx?ID=21322>

Eliza Pinckney

• Graydon, Nell S. Eliza of Wappoo; a tale of indigo. Columbia, S.C.: R. L. Bryan Co., 1967.
• Pinckney, Eliza Lucas. Journal and letters of Eliza Lucas. Wormsloe Ga.: 1850
• Ravenel, Harriott Horry. Eliza Pinckney. La Crosse, Wis.: Brookhaven Press, 2005.
• Williams, Frances Leigh. Plantation patriot; a biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

Pocahontas

• Barbour, Philip L.  The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith.  London:  Macmillan, 1964.
• Doherty, Brian.  The Story of Pocahontas.  New York:  Dover Publications/Children’s Thrift Classics, 1994
• Mossiker, Frances. Pocahontas: the Life and the Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.
• Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: the Evolution of an American Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Johnson Lewis, Jone. "Pocahontas." About.com. The New York Times Company. <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/pocahontas/p/pocahontas.htm>.
• "Pocahontas." America's Story From America's Library. Library of Congress. <http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/pocahonta>.
• "Pocahontas." The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. <http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html>.

Lucy Terry Prince

• Francis, David C.  “Lucy Terry Prince,” in Doris Weatherford, ed.  A History of Women in the United States:  State-by-State Reference.  Volume 4.  Danbury, CT:  Scholastic/Grolier, 2004.
• Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook.  Mr. And Mrs. Prince:  How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. 
• Katz, Bernard.  Black Woman:  A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 1973.
• Shockley, Ann Allen.  Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933:  An Anthology and Critical Guide. New Haven:  Meridian Books, 1989.
• "Lucy Terry Prince: Black Pioneer and Poet." Town of Guilford. Guilford Central School. <http://www.guilfordschool.org/about/history/people/prince_lucy.php4>.
• "Lucy Terry Prince Composes Poem." Mass Moments. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. <hhttp://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=250>.
• Robinson, Susan. "Lucy Terry: the Slave History Singer." Gibbs Magazine. <http://www.gibbsmagazine.com/Lucy%201.htm>.

Sarah Remond

• Bogin, Ruth. Sarah Parker Remond: Black Abolitionist from Salem. Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1974.
• Porter, Dorothy B. “Sarah Parker Remond” in Notable American Women, vol 3, 136-37.
• Wright, Michelle Diane. Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women’s Social Thought. Three Sistahs Press, LLC, 2007.
• The African American Registry. 2005. The African American Registration. <http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/924/
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• "Sarah Parker Remond." TheState House Women's Leadership Project. 2001. The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. <http://www.mfh.org/specialprojects/shwlp/site/honorees/remond.html>.

Ernestine Rose

• Doress-Worters, Paula, ed.  Mistress of Herself:  Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women’s Rights Leader.  New York:  Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2008.
• Eiseman, Alberta.  Rebels and Reformers:  Biographies of Four Jewish Americans:  Uriah Phillips Levy, Ernestine L. Rose, Louis D. Brandeis, Lillian D. Wald.  Garden City, NY:  Zenith Books, 1976.
• Kohlman, Carol A.  The American Life of Ernestine Rose.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press, 1999.
• Stanton, Elizabeth, with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage.  History of Woman Suffrage.  Volumes 1-3.  Rochester, NY:  Charles Mann Printing Company, 1886.
• Suhl, Yuri.  Ernestine L. Rose and the Battle for Human Rights.  New York:  Reynal:  1959.
• Weatherford, Doris.   A History of the American Suffragist Movement.  Introduction by Geraldine Ferraro.  Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC/Clio, 1998.
• "Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose." National Women's Hall of Fame. <http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=129>.
• "Ernestine L. Susmond Potowski Rose (1810-1892): a Short Biography." The Ernestine Rose Society. Brandeis University. <http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/Ernestine_Rose_Website/Shortbio.html>.
• "Ernestine Rose: A Troublesome Female." American Atheists. <http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/rose/>.

Sacajawea

• Frazier, Neta Lohnes. Sacajawea: the Girl Nobody Knows. New York, D. McKay Co., 1967.
• Harper, Ida Husted.  History of Woman Suffrage, volume 6.  (New York:  J.J. Little & Ives, 1922), p. 540.
• Howard, Harold P. Sacajawea. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
• Kessler, Donna J. The Making of Sacagawea: a Euro-American Legend. Tuscaloose, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
• Welden, Amelie. Girls Who Rocked the World : Heroines from Sacajawea to Sheryl Swoopes. Milwaukee, WI : Gareth Stevens Pub., 1999.
• "Sacagawea Biography." Essortment. 2002. 13 Apr. 2008 <http://www.essortment.com/all/biographysacaga_rcqc.htm>.
• "Sacagwea Biography (1788?-1812)." Biography.com. 2007. A&E Television Networks. <http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9468731>.
• "Sacagawea, Indian Woman, Fort Mandan." American Western History Museums. 1999. <http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_names/sacajawea/sacajawea.htm>.

Kateri Tekakwitha

• Bechard, Henri. Kaiatanoron Kateri Tekakwitha.
• Brown, Evelyn M. Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk Maid.
• Buehrle, Marie Cecilia. Kateri of the Mohawks. 1954.
• Grassman, Thomas. “Catherine Tekakwitha” in Notable American Women, vol. 3, 436-437.
• "Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha." Catholic Online. <http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=154>.
• "Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha." The National Shrine of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. <http://www.katerishrine.com/kateri.htm>.
• "Kateri Tekakwitha." Catholic Conservation Center. <http://conservation.catholic.org/kateri.htm>.

Shirley Temple

• Hammontree, Patsy Guy. Shirley Temple Black : a bio-bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. “Shirley Temple Black,” in Doris Weatherford, ed., A History of Women in the United States:  A State-by-State Reference (Scholastic/Grolier, 2003), Volume 1, p. 180.
• Temple Black, Shirley. Child Star: an Autobiography. New York, NY: Grand Central, 1989.
• Windeler, Robert. The Films of Shirley Temple. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1978.
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Betty Zane

• Brennan, Margaret, “Betty Zane,” in Doris Weatherford, ed.,  A History of Women in the United States:  State-by-State Reference (Scholastic, 2003), Vol. 4, p. 207.
• Commeti, Elizabeth, “Betty Zane,” in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer, eds, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (Harvard University Press, 1971) Vol. 3, p. 703-704.
• Conley, Phil.  “Betty Zane.”  West Virginia Encyclopedia (West Virginia Publishing Company, 1929), p. 1041.
• Farley, G.M. "Betty Zane, Daughter of Revolution,” Wonderful West Virginia , May 1977.
• “Ebenezer Zane.” Virtualology. 1999. <http://famousamericans.net/ebenezerzane/>. 
• “The Heroine of Fort Henry.” The Baldwin Project. <http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=deeds&story=heroin 
• “Betty Zane, Lydia Boggs, and Molly Scott: The Gunpowder Exploits at Fort Henry.” West Virginia Division of Culture and History. http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh55-4.html. 

The Little Rock 9

• Bates, Daisy.  The Long Shadow of Little Rock.  New York:  David McKay Co., 1962.
• Beals, Melba Pattilo.  Warriors Don’t Cry:  A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High.  New York:  Washington Square Press, 1995.
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This exhibit was researched by Girls Learn International, curated by Doris Weatherford, historian and NWHM Board member, and designed by Nikki Emser.