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This page is no longer being updated. Please see the primary source section of the Women's History subject guide for an updated list of sources.

History of Women

General Womens History Sites | Biographical Sites | Suffrage | Sites Arranged Chronologically | Women Writers

General Womens History Sites

• Internet Women's History Sourcebook
  Collection of primary and some secondary sources dealing with women's history. Part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
• Washington Women's History Consortium
  "The Consortium is "a Washington State Historical Society-led initiative, is dedicated to preserving and making available resources about Washington women’s history."
• Women in American History
  Encyclopedia Britannica's timeline of American women's history and accompanied by encyclopedia articles and a small collection of photographs, videos, and other primary sources.
• Women's History
  A guide to library and internet resources at Middle Tennessee State University. Includes links to bibliographies, online exhibits and other digitized collections of primary sources. Also see Women's History Resources, Early Modern Woman Database and the WWW Virtual Library: Women's History.

Biographical Sites

• Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
  Digitized collection of letters, manuscripts, clippings and other material. Due to copyright restrictions, only a portion of the digitized collection is available via this web site.
• DoHistory - Martha Ballard's Diary
  This "an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard." The site includes the complete diary (both transcription and image), a collection of related documents and various activities.
• Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818: A Bilingual Exhibit
  An exhibit created by the University of Virginia Library in honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sophie Charlotte, consort of George III.
• Muse and Confidante: The Angelica Schuyler Church Archive
  Digital version of an exhibit held at the University of Virginia Library . Angelica Schuyler Church was born 1756 and was a confidante of many early American leaders such as Thomas Jefferson.
• Amelia Earhart Papers
  Purdue University collection contains more than 3400 digitized maps, photos and other documents of the aviator.
• Emma Goldman Papers
  Berkeley Digital Library site which includes an overview of the microfilm set of Goldman papers as well as an online exhibition which includes documents and images.
• Dolley Payne Madison: An Exhibit
  An exhibit with images, correspondence and narrative detailing the life of Dolley Madison presented by the University of Virginia.
• Florence Nightingale Letters
  Collection of 37 letters by Florence Nightingale at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
• Margaret Sanger Papers
  The mini-edition of Sanger's papers "brings together documents from all three Sanger microfilm series to trace the events surrounding Sanger's publication of the Woman Rebel and its legal, political, social and personal aftermath." Part of the Model Editions Partnership.

Suffrage

• The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920
  Biographies, documents and images dealing with the suffrage movement in Britain.
• Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage
  Exhibit at the still virtual National Museum of Women's History with an extensive narrative illustrated with image.
• Suffragists Oral History Project
  Full-length oral history of seven major figures in 20th century suffragist history provided by the Regional Oral History Office at Berkeley.
• Travels for Reform: The Early Work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861
  "The documents in this mini-edition focus on the first decade of their collaboration, from 1852 until 1861, when they honed their skills as reformers in New York State." Part of the Model Editions Partnership.
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
  Full-text collection of books and other artifacts documenting the Association including That Terrible Question, or, a Few Thoughts on Love and Marriage published in 1868 and Lucretia Mott's Discourse on Woman. Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory program. See also pictures.
• Worcester Women's History Project
  Site commemorate the first National Convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1850. Includes a number of documents and transcribed speeches from the convention.

Sites Arranged Chronologically

• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  Comprehensive collection of links dealing with women in antiquity, includes secondary and primary texts, images and syllabi.
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Searchable index covering over 450 journals as well as essay collections about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.

Early Modern

• Salem Witch Trials
  "The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project 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."

18th & 19th centuries

• HEARTH: Home Economics Archive
  "HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950." Also see Human Ecology Photographs and From Domesticity to Modernity.
• Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the US & UK, 1815-1914
  Collection of trial narratives of over 400 cases dealing with divorce and sexuality.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
  Collection of documents established at SUNY Binghamton. Subjects covered include African American women, temperance, labor and suffrage. See also UW restricted database version Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000.
• New Jersey Women's History
  Small collection of documents, images, and artifacts arrranged chronologically detailing the history of women in New Jersey from colonial period to the present.
• The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society
  "This project introduces The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society, a London publication that premiered in March 1872 and exited abruptly in January 1873." Full page images from the first issue and selected articles from the rest of the run. Also see selected issues of Godey's Lady's Book at the University of Vermont and the University of Rochester.
• Women Working 1800-1930
  "Women Working, 1800 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections."
• Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest
  This exhibit by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest includes photographs, recipes, and excerpts from diaries and letters.
• Five College Archives Digital Access Project
  "This web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history -- particularly women's education at the Five Colleges" - Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith and University of Massachusetts.
• Women Physicians: 1850s-1970s
  Digital collection of materials illustrating the history of women in medicine.

20th century

• YMCA Digital Archive
  Digitized collection primarily of photographs detailing the YMCA's activities in the past 150 years.
• Robin Flies Again: Letters written by women of Goucher College, class of 1903
  "Members of the class of 1903 wrote a 'Round Robin' letter to each other for almost fifty years. The letters reproduced here were written between the years of 1919 and 1938. They document suffrage, war, the depression, family life and more."
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  Collection of over 100 photographs of the League from approximately 1915 until the present.
• Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
  Collection of current news articles on the subject plus photographs and witness testimony.
• Archive of Golden Age Romance Comics
  Small collection of digitized comics primarily from the 1950s.
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
  Duke University Library's collection of primary sources such as pamplets, newsletters and newspaper articles dealing with the liberation movement of 1960s and 70s. Also see the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.

Women Writers

• 19th Century American Women Writers Web
  Collection of texts, biographical material and links to sites related to 19th century American women writers.
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  Collection of more than 30 published works presented by New York Public Library.
• Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women's Writing
  Project to transcribe 245 works written by German women between the years 1740 and 1923. Currently approximately 50 texts are available, a few with English translations.
• Victorian Women Writers Project
  A project of Indiana University with the "goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century."
• Women in America
  Texts from 18 early nineteenth century European travellers of women's life in America. Part of Democracy in America site produced by the University of Virginia's American Studies Program.
• Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930
  Collection of approximately 20 digitized books and excerpts written by women travelers produced by the University of Minnesota. Includes supplemental biographies and maps.

Photograph: First girls' basketball team, Tulalip Indian School, 1912. Courtesy of American Indians of the Pacific Northwest.