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Have a female ancestor that served in the military? These resources are just a few that document the lives of female soldiers during the Civil War, World War I and World War II.
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Civil War
Books
Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
Halloran, Richard. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006
Harriel, Shelby. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi. Jackson: University of Mississippi , 2019.
Websites
American Battlfield Trust - Female Soldiers in the Civil War
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/female-soldiers-civil-war
National Archives - Women Soldiers of the Civil War
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
World War I
Books
Cobbs, Elizabeth. The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002.
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I. Sebastopol: University Press of Colorado, 2011.
Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking, 1991.
Research Guides
Simmons College - Women's War Work During World War I
Schlesinger Library - World War I, 1914 -1918
The National World War I Museum - Women in World War I
World War II
Books
Bonnell, Françoise B, Ronald K. Bullis, and Charlotte T. McGraw. Capturing the Women's Army Corps: The World War II Photographs of Captain Charlotte T. Mcgraw. 2013.
Carl, Ann. A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. They Also Served: American Women in World War II. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1995.
Lambright, Jeanie S. They Also Served: Women's Stories from the World War II Era. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2003.
Merryman, Molly. Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. New York: New York Univ Press, 1998.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Moore, Brenda L. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Purcell, Martha S. World War II Women in Uniform. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2003.
Soderbergh, Peter A. Women Marines: The World War II Era. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.
Stremlow, Mary V. Free a Marine to Fight: Women Marines in World War II. Washington, D.C: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1994.
Tomblin, Barbara B. G.I. Nightingales: the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Special Collections/Museums
Texas Women's University - Women Airforce Service Pilots
https://twu.edu/library/womans-collection/collections/women-airforce-service-pilots-official-archive/
National World War II Museum - Women in World War II
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/women-wwii
National WASP WWII Museum https://waspmuseum.org/
