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.
