Overview of Women in North Carolina History

Introduction
Women's Roles in Precolonial and Colonial North Carolina
Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Statehood
Life in Antebellum North Carolina
Secession and Civil War
Women Help Shape the New South
Women Earn the Right to Vote
Activism and the Expansion of Women's Opportunities and Public Influence

Topics in North Carolina Women's History​

North Carolina Women's Colleges
Women of Somerset Place historic plantation in North Carolina
Edenton Tea Party women's political activism in the American Revolution
Nurses and Nursing History
Women in the Military

Struggle for Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
Women in the 1920s in North Carolina
Women Suffrage
The Suffrage Amendment
Gertrude Weil
North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association
North Carolina Women Barrier-Breaking Moments Timeline

North Carolina Historical and Primary Source Collections for Women's History

Women in North Carolina 20th Century History NC Digital Collections
Women, Marriage and the Law NC Digital Collections
Women's History Collections UNC Greensboro

Other Historical and Primary Source Collections for Women's History

Women's History Digital Collections Library of Congress
Women Working, 1800-1930 Harvard University Library
History of Women in America Harvard University, Schlesinger Library
Women Striving Forward, 1910s-40s Library of Congress Flickr
Women's Liberation Print Culture Duke University Libraries
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection Library of Congress
Women's History Digital Classroom Resources National Women's History Museum
Women in Congress History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives
Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection Digital Public Library of America
Women in Science Digital Public Library of America
Female Leaders, History of Women in Telecom Industry

Citation

"Exploring North Carolina: Women's History." NCpedia. State Library of NC. 2015. https://www.ncpedia.org/exploring-north-carolina-womens-history.