Free Women's History eBooks for Kindle – Research Paper Resources

Jan 29, 2011
Melanie Zoltan

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Amazon.com's Kindle and free PC application allow you to download free women's history eBooks. These research paper resources come in handy at deadlines.

It's a few days before, or the day before, or even the night before a major research paper is due in a history course. Whether you've prepared thoroughly for a topic on women's history and just need to find a few more references to shore up your understanding, or you're frantically flailing and need to burn the midnight oil to finish the paper, these free women's history eBooks for Kindle will help round out any bibliography for a history course.

U.S. Women's History - Free eBooks

Try these free women's history eBooks for Kindle to use as primary documents for research papers on U.S. topics ranging from temperance, political organization and suffrage:

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York by Frances W. Graham. This free eBook captures a part of U.S. women's history, chronicling the social movement that laid the groundwork for women's suffrage.
Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman by Margaret Fuller. Fuller was a Transcendentalist who was friends with Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She worked with Horace Greeley as a journalist at The Dial, and this book, published in 1843 in shorter form in The Dial, was later expanded and published as a book in 1845. It is widely considered to be the first feminist book written by a U.S. female author. A must for any women's history research paper on 19th-century feminism.
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. An excellent research companion to Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Stanton's autobiographical account of the fight for suffrage is an outstanding primary document source for a term paper.

Readers can download these Kindle eBook for free, and do not need an actual Kindle device to read. The basic citation convention is to use the original page numbers and chapters when possible.

General Women's History – Free Kindle Books

Many of these free history eBooks mix U.S. and European histories, while Ida Pfeiffer's account includes rare first-person stories about Latin America and Asia.

A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time by Eugene Arthur Hecker. This free eBook, originally published in print in 1911, examines the legal status of women's rights from Roman time through to the early 1900s in England and the United States.
A Woman's Journey Round The World; From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Mino r by Ida Pfeiffer. Originally published in German in 1923, the free Kindle eBook version is an autobiographical account of a well-off German woman's travels around the globe.
Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup For students in World History or Middle Eastern History, this 1873 edition is a must-read. Reverend Jessup spent 17 years living in Syria as a missionary, and his book gives a late-19th-century clergyman's perspective on Islamic and Arabic society, through a decidedly Western lens. A perfect primary document to use as solid research for research papers on the role of women in Islam and change over time essays.

For students who haven't yet chosen a topic (you know who you are), a compare/contrast essay that uses Jessup's book and compares his viewpoints with Pfeiffer's observations of Persia would make for a stellar topic in any World History course or global Women's History courses.