Doris Weatherford is affiliated with 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 history. She was editor-in-chief and major contributor to the monumental reference work, A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference (Grolier Academic Reference, 2004), which offers detailed and engaging histories of women in each of the fifty states. Her other publications include Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1920 (1986), American Women's History: An A―Z of People, Organizations, Issues and Events (1994), Milestones: A Chronology of American Women's History (1997), American Women during World War II (Routledge, 2009), and a two-volume work for Congressional Quarterly Press, Women in American Politics: History and Milestones (2012).