Doris Weatherford

Doris Weatherford is a recognized expert and acclaimed author in the field of women's history. Prior to A History of the American Suffragist Movement, Weatherford wrote Milestones: A Chronology of American Women's History (Facts On File, 1997), already in its second printing after its initial release in 1997. Ms. Weatherford is also the author of American Women's History: An A-Z of People, Organizations, Issues and Events (Prentice-Hall, 1994). Weatherford's American Women in World War II, published by Facts On File in 1990 is currently being translated into Japanese. Her other writing includes Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1920 and entries in Scribner's Dictionary of American Biography, 1994 and 1995.

Weatherford is an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida, is active in the political arena, and has been extensively recognized for her contributions to the field of women's studies. In 1995, she received one of five awards conferred by the Florida Commission on Human Relations at Florida's Annual Civil Rights Conference, and in 1994, she received the National Order of Women Legislators Hall of Fame Award. She is listed in The World Who's Who of Women, 1996, Who's Who of American Women, 1990 plus future editions, and Who's Who in America, 46th Edition, 1990.

From the reviews of Milestones: A Chronology of American Women's History

Informative entries…A complement to reference collections in public libraries aiming for a thorough coverage of women's history.

Library Journal

Entries recount the great and small, all of it important…Thanks to its narrower national focus, this does not crowd the field of chronologies of women's histories, but improves it.

Retting on Reference (on-line; formerly Wilson Library Journal)

When I picked up [Milestones] and started leafing through it, I became engrossed in the early history you have compiled about women in colonial America. Your work will be a valuable reference for me and for countless others.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, June 13, 1997

From the reviews of American Women in World War II

Fascinating and immensely readable…She is especially sensitive to the experiences of black women…General readers will enjoy…and will be amazed.

Library Journal

Detailed, thoroughly researched book that brings to light a long-buried chapter in the history of women…Weatherford seeks out cracks in the wall of women's history, filling in the gaps in knowledge and rectifying the errors of assumption.

West Coast Woman

From the reviews of Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1920

An engrossing account…Absorbing chapters full of quotations from original letters and diaries…Meticulous research, vibrant reading…

Kirkus Reviews

Weatherford conducts an imperative examination…Weatherford's chronicle of courage is an integral volume in the continually unfolding social history of the American experience…An excellent advanced resource…