The sources recommended below can help you identify and learn about “hidden figures” in STEM history. This is not an exhaustive list of resources, but some good places to start:

Scholarly Reference Works:

• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008. (Search within this publication by ethnicity, race, religion, gender, disability, etc. to find relevant individuals.)
• Carey, Charles W. African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 
• Haines, Catharine M. C., and Helen M. Stevens. International Women in Science: a Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
• Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America : Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 
• Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America : Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
• Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America : Forging a New World Since 1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 
• Wills, Hannah, ed. Women in the History of Science : A Sourcebook. London: UCL Press, 2023.
• Or search for “scientist” or ”mathematician” within one of these reference works:
  • Albrecht, Gary L., ed. Encyclopedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2006.
  • Stein, Marc, ed. Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. 
  • Gale Ebooks Multicultural Studies (This is a collection of reference works; search inside individual work.)
  • Gale Ebooks Religion (This is a collection of reference works; search inside individual work.)

Bibliographies

• “A Brief Historiography of African Americans in the Physical Sciences,”  Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.
• “Annotated Bibliography: African Americans in Physics, Astronomy, and Related Disciplines,” Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.
• “Selected Readings: Women and Minorities in Physics, Astronomy, and Related Disciplines,”  Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.
• “Women Mathematicians,” National Museum of American History.

Blogs, Online Article Collections, and Exhibits

• “Hidden Figures Topic Gallery,” Perspectives on Science and Math. [Archived]
• Lady Science: Women, History, Science.
• “Latino Natural History,” Biodiversity Library Exhibition. [Archived]
• Trowelblazers: Women in archaeology, geology, and palaeontology.
• “Unsung,” UnDark Magazine. (Profiles of African American scientists.)
• “Women in Science,” Michigan State university.

Online Lists and Biographical Collections:

• “Biographies of Women Mathematicians,” Agnes Scott College.
• “Historical Biographies,” Science History Institute. (Biographies of chemists, chemical engineers, and life scientists)
• “LGBTQ scientists,” Wikipedia. (Largely contemporary, but there are some historical figures in this list.)
• “Lists of mathematicians,” Wikipedia.(Scroll down to: “By country, religion or ethnic background”)
• “Lists of scientists,” Wikipedia. (Scroll down to: “By country, religion or ethnic background”)
• MacTutor Biographies of Mathematicians.
• Mitchell C. Brown, “African Americans in the Sciences.” [Archived]
• ”Science and Disability: Interviews in the General Collection,” Science History Institute.
• “Timeline of women in science,” Wikipedia.
• “The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology,” National Archives.
• “Women Mathematicians,” National Museum of American History.

Found other resources you would recommend? Let me know!