HIST 3590/WGST 3550: American Women

The archives houses the speeches and campaign advertising of U.S. women senators and representatives, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, governors and lieutenant governors, and first and second ladies; international women leaders. It also features the speeches of historically significant women, social activists and women who have used their position of celebrity to advocate for political causes.

Includes correspondence, diaries, manuscript drafts, articles, reviews, clippings, photographs, and drawings documenting Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s extensive output as a writer as well as her romantic and family life.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922.

Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

DocSouth includes texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Tens of thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism.

Part III is comprised of links to primary sources documents related to the U.S. feminist movement.

A collection of links to historical texts presented for educational use. Scroll down to find relevant sources.

Includes the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection and Records, Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music, the Johnston (Frances Benjamin) Collection, and the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cary Chapman Catt, Clara Barton, Mary Church Terrell, Susan B. Anthony, Betty Herndon Maury,

Consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.

"Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories."

"Consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign."

Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

"Women Working, 1800–1930 is a digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression."