Women's History Month: Politics/Military

Covers how politics are influenced by women's issues.

Examines the roles of women in war and the ways that conflict affects women's lives.

Devoted specifically to interdisciplinary & international scholarly research & criminal justice practice dealing with all areas of women & criminal justice.

Articles, review essays and reviews focusing on sex and gender as variables within disciplinary frameworks and policy problems and studies that assess the impact of politics on women and of women on politics.

This National Women's History Museum topic covers such people as Dorothea Dix, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, and other women who have made contributions to the Civil War and Reconstruction.

This collection comes from the Library of Congress' Manuscript Reading Room - the papers of the dedicated legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink.

Among the virtual exhibits of the NWHM are "Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of WWII," "The WAVES of World War II," "'Be a Marine, Free a Marine to Fight': The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve," and more.

Among the virtual exhibits of the NWHM are "Legislating History: 100 Years of Women in Congress," "First but Not the Last: Women Who Ran for President," and "First Ladies Timeline."