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12/29/00 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A major poet, but often thought to be a bad one, she catered to popular tastes.  One poem, represented here among many others, was a conversation between the old century and the new -- the 19th and the 20th. Another is an answer to a male critic who said "Woman is man's enemy, rival and competitor."

12/14/00 - Christmas Quotes by Notable Women
In honor of the winter holiday, some excerpts from writings of notable women.

11/08/00 - Over the River and Through the Wood
The author of the 1844 poem, "A Boy's Thanksgiving," is not well known today, but in her time, Lydia Maria Child was a well-known writer of novels, advice books, and anti-slavery tracts.

11/01/00 - Why Women Should Vote
A Hearst editorial, circa 1917, about why women should vote. How relevant are those arguments today? What would today's arguments be?

09/30/00 - Encyclopedia of Women's History: Invitation
Readers are invited to contribute entries for the January 2001 debut of the Encyclopedia of Women's History, on this site.

09/16/00 - International Woman Suffrage Timeline
When did women get the vote -- and where? A timeline of when the vote and other suffrage rights were won in nations around the world.

08/31/00 - Do You Want to Be A Women's History Expert?
Inspired by the popular success of the gameshow "Do You Want to Be a Millionaire," this quiz imagines what the quiz show might be like if they had only women's history questions.

08/17/00 - August 26, 1920
The Nineteenth Amendment was finally ratified in 1920. Learn more about the last years of the long battle for woman suffrage.

7/20/00 - Women's History: Four Perspectives
Four perspectives that women's history may use to judge the evidence and come to conclusions.

7/13/00 - Women's History: Basic Assumptions
The search for truth in history as it applies to women's history.

06/20/00 - Women's History: A Short Overview
Why women's history? Some basics to understanding why the field exists.

05/31/00 - Women and Tennis in the United States
Tennis comes to the United States in 1874, when Mary Ewing Outerbridge introduces the sport in New York. Includes some illustrations of tennis fashions of other times.

05/09/00 - Women and the Bicycle: Health and Fashion, 1894
Health and fashion, 1894 style, for the woman riding that new contraption, the bicycle. No skin-tight spandex shorts for those ladies!

03/16/00 - Winning the Vote: Suffrage Timeline
When did women get the vote -- and where? A timeline of when the vote and other suffrage rights were won in the United States.

03/02/00 - Women's History Month
The background of women's history month, celebrated in March in the United States.

02/29/00 - Dreaming in Color: Women of the Harlem Renaissance
From roots to neglect to re-discovery, a review of the Harlem Renaissance and the incredible women who helped make it possible.

02/14/00 - Sally Hemings from the Perspective of Women's History
How does the Jefferson/Hemings relationship -- and scandal -- look, through the perspective of women's history?

01/31/00 - Julia Ward Howe: Beyond the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Known mostly for writing Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe also worked for peace and woman suffrage.

01/22/00 - Abortion: History of the Controversy in the US
History of the legal changes and the resulting controversy over abortion in the United States.

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