Famous Women

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Women of Note

Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Troubador's Daughter

An Annotated Bibliography

Nefertiti

Where is Nefertiti?

Who was Nefertiti?

Cleopatra

Biography

A multimedia guide to the ancient world.

Catherine de Medici

Biography

Catherine de Medici, Queen of France

Joan of Arc

Distinguished women of the past and present

St. Joan of Arc

Mary, Queen of Scots

Biography, portraits

Mary, from the official UK monarchy website

Amina, Nigerian Queen. 1560-1610

Distinguished women of the past and present

Afrocentric Experience

Sandra Day O'Connor

From OYEZ, US Supreme Court Multimedia

National Women's Hall of Fame

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

About Stanton

With a great photograph of the Executive Committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association, as well as some of Stanton's speeches

Elizabeth I

Semper Eadem

Elizabeth R

Jane Addams

Hull House Museum

From Nobleprize.org

The Trung Sisters

Distinguished women of the past and present

Trung Trac & Trung Nhi

Nur Jahan

Women and the Mughal Empire

Biography

Empress Adelaide

ABOUT: Adelaide

Adelaide

Mbande Nzinga

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

Ann Nzinga Mbande

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

Modern History Sourcebook

Alexander Palace. The Time Machine

Queen Victoria

Victorian Station

Queen Victoria's Empire

Tzu-Hsi

Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi

Tz'u-his or Cixi

Liliuokalani

Queen Lydia Liliuokalani

Royal Family of Hawaii

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Golda Meir

Women's International Center

The Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership

Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi assassinated

Gandhi: Prime Minister of India

Zenobia

From Women's History

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Sacagawea

From PBS

Sacagewea and the Corps of Discovery

Harriet Tubman

From PBS

The Harriet Tubman Home

Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

A voice of Hope

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth Institute

Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist

Rosa Parks

Academy of Achievement

Rosa Parks Museum

Jane Goodall

The Jane Goodall Institute

Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees

Anne Frank

Anne Frank Museum

The Anne Frank House

Margaret Mead

Mead's Life

American Museum of Natural History

Mother Teresa

Nobelprize.org

Mother Teresa homepage

Marie Curie

Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity

National Atomic Museum

Martha Jane Cannary

Calamity Jane

Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself

Sappho

The Greek Poet Sappho

The Poetry of Sappho

Aspasia

First Lady of Athens

Aspasia of Miletos

Mary Harris Jones

The Miners' Angel

MotherJones.com

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

The History Guide

American Women's History: A Research Guide
    A scholarly site for research.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
    Search by field of activity, or name.  Many links to related sites

The National Women's Hall of Fame

Places Where Women Made History

Women's History Month Biographies

Reference Books For Women's History