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American Homefront in World War II by Allison McNeill
ISBN: 9780787676087
Publication Date: 2004
American Women During World War II by Doris Weatherford
ISBN: 0203870662
Publication Date: 2009
Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
Call Number: REF 305.48896073 B56 2005
ISBN: 0195156773
Publication Date: 2005
Daily Life of Women [3 Volumes] by Colleen Boyett (Editor); H. Micheal Tarver (Editor); Mildred Diane Gleason (Editor)
ISBN: 9781440846922
Publication Date: 2021
Dictionary of American History
Call Number: REF 973.03 D56 2003
ISBN: 9780684805337
Publication Date: 2002
The standard, comprehensive and scholarly encyclopedia of U.S. history
Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics by Jeffrey D. Schultz (Editor); Laura van Assendelft; Helen Thomas (Foreword by)
Call Number: REF 320.082 En1
ISBN: 1573561312
Publication Date: 1998
Girlhood in America by Miriam Forman-Brunell (Editor)
Call Number: REF 305.23 G445
ISBN: 9781576072066
Publication Date: 2001
Women During the Civil War by Judith E. Harper; Elizabeth D. Leonard (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780415937238
Publication Date: 2003
A concise encyclopedia

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Notable American Women, 1607-1950 by Edward T. James (Editor); Janet W. James (Editor); Paul Boyer (Editor)
Call Number: REF 920.720973 N84
ISBN: 0674627342
Publication Date: 1971
Has a supplement for the modern period.
Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women by Cynthia Margarita Tompkins; David William Foster
Call Number: REF 920.72098 N84
ISBN: 0313311129
Publication Date: 2001
A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists by Donna Langston
Call Number: REF 305.409 L26
ISBN: 0816044686
Publication Date: 2002
Dictionary of Women Worldwide
ISBN: 9780787675851
Publication Date: 2006-07-28
Brief biographies of 20,000+ women.
Women in World History by Anne Commire (Editor); Deborah Klezmer (Editor)
Call Number: REF 920.7203 W84
ISBN: 9780787637361
Publication Date: 1999-10-08
Biographies of notable women from prehistory to the present.