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For your convenience, NWHP provides links or access to other World Wide Web (www) sites.  However, this access does not imply that NWHP members support or approve of the information offered at those sites.  
NEW!!! Sarah Winnemucca at the National Women's Hall of Fame
The
National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY home of 207 inductees, has also honored our very own Sarah Winnemucca. Sarah was inducted in 1994 and joins a stellar list of some of history's most important women.
National Women's History Project
The National Women's History Project has established a web site for the 150th Anniversary of the organized Women's Rights Movement. It presents the history of the movement, an extensive chronology of important events on the route to women's equity, an indexed list of contemporary programs that will celebrate this landmark anniversary, and an array of resources for programs.
African-American Women
A Duke University site offering various information resources such as Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections, including African-American women and Civil War Women.
American Women
American Women is "is a gateway--a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American women's history." The gateway contains a research guide that describes materials on American women's history in the Library of Congress' holdings and tells how find
these materials, and links to the Library of Congress catalog, digitized materials, and online sources. The American Women gateway is presented as a part of the Library of Congress's American Memory
Cyndi's List
A comprehensive list of genealogy sites on the internet
DCA/NSLA
Department of Cultural Affairs, Nevada State Library and Archives
Sarah Winnemucca Statue Project information, including photographs.
Letters from Nevada's Daughters
Native American Women with Military Service
Recognition for Native American Women who served in the Military.
Nevada Women's Archives, University of Nevada, Reno 
Established in 1992 in the Special Collections Department at the University Library, University of Nevada, Reno, in response to the need for a focused project to collect and preserve Nevada women’s original source materials. This archive substantially enhances the Department’s existing collections about Nevada women and serves as an important resource for those conducting study and research in many diverse subject areas.
Nevada Women's Archives, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
As part of the Special Collections of UNLV Libraries, the Nevada Women's Archives project began in September 1994 to collect, preserve, and provide access to primary source materials which document women's history in Southern Nevada. Materials resulting from women's activities in political, social, cultural, religious, commercial and economic life are the foundation of the collection. 
Portraits of Nevada
Portraits of Nevada was created by Virginia Vogel, professor of speech communication and theater, in cooperation with Teaching and Learning Technologies of the University of Nevada, Reno. The site archives clothing and fashion of early Nevada pioneers, especially women.
Preservation Directory - A new public research tool for historic and cultural resource preservation.
U. S. Mint
Women of the West Museum
Women Who Have Changed History
A three-part division of women's history, BC to 1799, the 1800s, and the 1900s.
Women's History - Net Links
Links to various sites including quotes from women, transcendentalist women, saints and doctors, etc.
Women's Liberation Movement
An on-line archival collection of documents from Duke University with Minutes of the liberation movement meetings from November 10, 1974 to April 27, 1975.

 

Other Links of Interest

State Government

Nevada Legislature
Nevada Legislature Research Library
Department of Cultural Affairs

Nevada Governor's Home Page
Nevada Kids Page
The State of Nevada

Reference & Instruction

Portraits of Nevada
National Women's Hall of Fame
Native Nevada Classroom
Preservation Directory
The NevadaWeb



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