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Archives and Libraries

A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 An online exhibit from the Baker Library at at the Harvard Business School.
Alice Marshall Women's History Collection Part of the Penn State Harrisburg Library's Special Collections and Archives, this collection consists of literary, graphic, and manuscript materials dealing with the issues and individuals that comprised women's history from the 15th century to the early 1980s. See also the information on Women's Studies collections at www.libraries.psu.edu/socialsciences/women/
Archival Sites for Women's Studies WSSLINKS. Comprehensive list of mainly American collections developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women's organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
Collections Pertaining to Women's History and Women's Issues from the State Archives of Florida A detailed listing of all relevant records within the State Archives of Florida. It also provides links and descriptions of other Florida-related records found across the state and nation. The guide also provides an extensive bibliography.
Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI. The Catholic Worker was founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical journalist who had converted to Catholicism, and Peter Maurin (1877-1949), an itinerant French worker/scholar. The collection includes the personal papers of Dorothy Day.
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.
Gerritsen Collection Online Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights collected by Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen from the late 1800s. General information about this online resource, which is not available for free.
Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech documents the history of women's involvement in architecture by archiving the professional papers of women architects. A guide to the collections, online inventories, a biographical directory and other resources.
Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa General information, alphabetical and subjects lists of the IWA collections, and selected finding aids.
Maria Mitchell Association | Archives and Special Collections Maria Mitchell was America’s first woman astronomer. Housed in the former schoolhouse of William Mitchell, the Maria Mitchell Association preserves Maria Mitchell's manuscripts, 19th century scientific books, contemporary scientific journals, the personal and professional papers of members of the Mitchell Family, and the records of the Maria Mitchell Association.
Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity (Boston) This institution houses all of Mrs. Eddy's published and unpublished works. The website offers biographical and bibliographical information about Mary Baker Eddy and information about the Library's collection and activities.
NARA-ALIC Pathfinder for Women's History Research in the National Archives and Records Administration Library A list of bibliographic resources available at Archives Library and Information Center.
National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
National Woman's Party Digital Collection (Washington D.C.). The National Woman's Party (NWP) holds a unique collection of records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women's full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Northwest Digital Archives An online searchable database of guides to primary sources at 13 research institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The database now contains more than 2,200 guides on numerous topics in Northwest History, including: business, industry and labor, city and town life, ethnic groups, home and family, native Americans, pioneers, sexuality and more.
NYPL, Women's Studies Research Guide A Guide to the Collections of The New York Public Library. The collections consist of retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship.
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture The Center in Duke University’s Special Collections Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.
Schlesinger Library The Schlesinger Library holds letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also home to an extensive culinary collection. The Schlesinger Library also houses the Radcliffe Archives.
Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Women's History Manuscripts Northampton, MA. The collection consists of 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present.
Soroptimist Archives The Soroptimist Archives, housed at Soroptimist headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is open to all researchers.
Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History A finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics such as women's history, ethnic studies and labour history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women's history and Lesbian and gay collections.
Willa Cather Archive Digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship, a guide to her letters, biographies, digitized images, bibliography and resources for scholars and teachers. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women's visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
Women in History at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Links to descriptions of manuscript collections at the Clements Library that are relevant for the study of women's history and gender studies.
Women's History and Resource Center (WHRC) Washington, DC. Founded in 1984, the Women's History and Resource Center collects, preserves, interprets, and promotes the history of the GFWC and women volunteers. The WHRC documents the social and political contributions of GFWC clubwomen from 1890 to the present through the GFWC archives and related special collections and publications.
Women's History at the Wisconsin Historical Society Online reproductions of original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts and other primary sources in the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Women's History Guide This guide describes the manuscript collections containing materials for women's history research in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Collections are described in full, even if only parts of them relate to the women's history.
Women's History Month (Library of Congress) Portal site featuring links to women's history materials in The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Women's History Resources At the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York. See also the Human Sexuality and Gender Identity subject guide.
Women's History Sources: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Collections An indexed, online guide describing over 270 manuscript collections and approximately 30 bodies of Rutgers University records and related collections which pertain to New Jersey and American women and their status, concerns and activities from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century.
Women, Enterprise and Society A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. This Web-based publication identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library that document women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.
Womens Studies Resources in the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH.
Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York.

Museums

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
International Museum of Women This institution was founded as the Women's Heritage Museum in 1985. It operates as a museum without walls, producing exhibits, hosting public programs, and providing teacher resources for Women's History Month. The website contains information on the Museum and some online exhibits.
International Women's Air & Space Museum
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
National Museum of Women's History This virtual museum is dedicated to the history of the woman suffrage movement and women's contributions that have shaped American culture and society. The physical Museum will be established in Washington, D.C.
Women's History Month (Library of Congress) Portal site featuring links to women's history materials in The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Associations and Societies

American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
Aphra Behn Society The Society is dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women's role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800. Through its newsletter, website, and biannual meeting, it seeks to promote an exchange of information and ideas among members of the various disciplines engaged in related research.
Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious (ACWR)
Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) Information about this international organization which aims to advance the study of women in the Middle East. It is an affiliated organization of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Association for Women in Slavic Studies A networking resource for people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women's studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The organization is affiliated with AAASS (The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies).
Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) Founded in 1979, the organization's goals are to support black women in the historical profession, disseminate information by, for and about black women and promote scholarship by and about black women. General information, newsletter.
CAWHC The Chicago Area Women's History Council is a non-profit, membership organization that promotes the study, interpretation and preservation of women's history.
Coordinating Council for Women in History CCWH An American organization for women in the historical profession. The website contains general information about the Council, a newsletter, a directory of CCWH affiliates and organizations for networking, and job and conference announcements.
Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego
National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (Mount Laurel, NJ). NCWHS supports and promotes the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women's participation in American life.
NWSA Early Modern Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women's Studies Association.
NWSA Medieval Women Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women's Studies Association.
Social Science History Association Women/Gender Network
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Based at Minot State University, North Dakota. General information on the Society and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship / Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF) Minot State University is the institutional home of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women A USA based network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another's work in the field.
Society for Women and the Civil War (USA). Information on the Society, newsletter.
Southern Association for Women Historians
SSA: Women's Collections Roundtable
Texas Women’s History Network General information
Western Association of Women Historians
Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest The Women's Historians of the Midwest have reformed after a hiatus as the new WGHOM. The organization hopes to provide a forum for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in the Midwestern United States who are interested in women's and gender history.

Chronological

American Women's Dime Novels, 1870-1920 A history of the women's sensational dime novel romance by Felicia L. Carr, at the Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls This site is devoted to the Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection at Stanford University Library. It offers thousands of catalogued graphic images of illustrated covers to issues of the dime novels and story papers that were popular in America in the second half of the 19th century and may be interesting for students of graphic representations of gender, class, race, work, and manners of the time.
NWSA Early Modern Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women's Studies Association.
NWSA Medieval Women Interest Group Information about the aims and activities of this interest group of the National Women's Studies Association.
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Based at Minot State University, North Dakota. General information on the Society and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship / Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF) Minot State University is the institutional home of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women A USA based network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another's work in the field.
Women's History Large American commercial website from About.com.

Special Topics

17th Century Colonial New England with special emphasis on the Essex County witch-hunt of 1692 A link collection with an annotated bibliography compiled by Margo Burns.
1969: The Year of Gay Liberation Online exhibit of The New York Public Library on the year of gay liberation; with extensive information on the LGBT collections, programs, and expertise that The Library has to offer.
Academic Info: American Women's History Annotated links.
Academica - Resources in Chicana and Chicano Studies Links to statistical resources, texts, introductory works, bibliographies, collections and other resources in Chicana studies.
African-American Women On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University.
Agents of Social Change. New Resources on 20th Century Women's Activism This online exhibit from the Sophia Smith Collection marks the opening for research of eight collections of 20th century women activists: the papers of Constance Baker Motley, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary Kaufman, Frances Fox Piven, Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, and Gloria Steinem and the records of the Women's Action Alliance and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
America's Quilting History Website devoted to the history of quilts & quilting as the art of the everyday woman. Includes quilts from Colonial America to the Great Depression as well as multicultural women's contributions. Articles, images, book references and links. Maintained by Anne Johnson.
American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN)
American Women and the World War II Experience This guide serves as an introduction to online and print sources covering the experiences of American women during World War II. By Jennifer Broberg, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
American Women's Dime Novels, 1870-1920 A history of the women's sensational dime novel romance by Felicia L. Carr, at the Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University.
American Women's History: a Research Guide Citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources. The site includes about 450 links to digital collections of primary sources, and a timeline, "American Women Through Time". Maintained by Ken Middleton, reference/microforms librarian at MTSU Library.
American Women. A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States Part of the American Memory Web site, which also includes the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress, Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996, Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921, By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, and Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party.
Aquifer American Social History Online (AASHO) Digitized photographs and cultural materials, books and pamphlets, journal articles, maps, sheet music, videos, data sets, political cartoons and posters, and oral histories from 175 American Social History research collections. This is a project of the Digital Library Federation.
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women's organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
Bibliography on the Garment Industry Entrepreneurship in the garment industry - particularly in its golden age, from 1860 to 1975 - was a crucial element not only in the history of New York City's economy (and the U.S. economy), but also in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side. A bibliography, primarily intended for use by business historians interested in pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now available, compiled by Shirley Idelson. It includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, labor, and gender.
Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography Citations from numerous subject areas within the humanities, social sciences, and health, medicine and science dating back to the nineteenth century to the present, with the majority of references representing the contemporary Black feminist thought that emerged in the the 1970s. Compiled by Sherri Barnes, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home The website for the Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home in Charles City, Iowa, includes a comprehensive bibliography and links to significant sites concerning the U.S. woman suffrage movement.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial Website on Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute. Information about the life of Dr. Brown and her school for African Americans, including a bibliography.
Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Website Materials and reminiscences put together by various veterans of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, which was founded in Chicago in 1969.
Civil War Women On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University.
From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics? Online exhibition devoted to the history of Home Economics at Cornell University. Texts, biographies, photographs, timeline, bibliography and a locations guide for the items shown at the local exhibition. By Cornell's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and students of a course in Cornell's Human Development department.
George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers More than 3,500 maps, photos, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts and other documents from the Amelia Earhart collection at Purdue University.
Girls fight for a living Online exhibition. Photographs with descriptions of women in several occupations: industrial work, journalism, the arts, the military, social reform work, and jobs they took over from the men who were fighting in World War II, including Baseball. From the University of Louisville Special Collections: Rare Books.
Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence A collection of 15 documents and a brief resource guide to books and online resources; at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition website.
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War Online exhibition, University of Virginia.
Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
Identity by design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses Online exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian
International Women's Air & Space Museum
Kentucky Commission on Women Index A site that celebrates the lives of Kentucky Women. Lists and biographies, timelines, educational tools, bibliographies and a list of weblinks.
Kheel Center Labor Photos The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives' collections contain about 350,000 images that document labor history in the 20th century. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU photographs (1885-1985), are now searchable at the Kheel Center website.
Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego
Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel The documents gathered for this "mini-edition" chronicle Margaret Sanger's publication of the radical, feminist journal, The Woman Rebel, and her emergence as the foremost leader of the birth control movement. Published by the Model Editions Partnership.
Margaret Sanger Papers Project: Home Page A project of the Department of History, New York University.
Maria Mitchell Association | Archives and Special Collections Maria Mitchell was America’s first woman astronomer. Housed in the former schoolhouse of William Mitchell, the Maria Mitchell Association preserves Maria Mitchell's manuscripts, 19th century scientific books, contemporary scientific journals, the personal and professional papers of members of the Mitchell Family, and the records of the Maria Mitchell Association.
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels to win the vote for women.
National First Ladies' Library Home Page Online biographical and bibliographical information about the First Ladies of the United States. The website contains descriptions of over 40,000 books, articles, letters, manuscripts by and about U.S. presidents' wives, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
National Woman's Party Digital Collection (Washington D.C.). The National Woman's Party (NWP) holds a unique collection of records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women's full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.
National Women's History Project
New Jersey Women's History Facts, images, documents, bibliography and links.
Out in the Redwoods: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2003 A documentary oral history project which is based on twenty-seven oral history interviews with UCSC students, alumni, and staff. Ten narrative essays by UCSC alumni are also included. Many of the interviews (in full text), and other archival and informational resources are located on this website.
Parsons - Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) Activist who played a crucial role in the worker's movements in Chicago. She helped found the International Working People's Association (IWPA), an anarchist-influenced labor organization that promoted revolutionary direct action towards a stateless and cooperative society and insisted on the equality of people of color and women. A small biography by by Joe Lowndes.
Parsons - Lucy Parsons Archive Biographical and bibliographical information from the Anarchy Archives.
Roads from Seneca Falls Material on U.S. women’s history and leadership for K-12 students and teachers. Linking lesson plans, activities, primary sources, brief biographies, bibliographies, and more than 800 women’s history historic sites, museums, and libraries, Roads from Seneca Falls catalogs websites across the country by subject, author, grade level, and type of material. The site is produced by the State University of New York and Syracuse University.
Society for Women and the Civil War (USA). Information on the Society, newsletter.
Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History A finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers / The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project is the first phase of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a documentary history of Eleanor Roosevelt?s political writings and radio and television appearances. Besides the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in several languages, this website has a lot of biographical and bibliographical information on Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' This National Library of Medicine website provides an online exhibition of biographical materials on Perkins Gilman and a PDF of the story in its original form that first appeared in 1892 in The New England Magazine.
The National Women's Hall of Fame Seneca Falls, NY. The website of the Hall offers general information and online biographies of the women of the Hall.
The National Women's History Project A guide for National Women's History Month activities in the USA. Resources include a list of women's history organizations and institutions and a collection of weblinks.
Tobacco Bag Stringing in North Carolina and Virginia This website presents images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
Travels for Reform: The Early Work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861 The papers in this "mini-edition" focus on the first decade of their collaboration and are published by the Model Editions Partnership. For information on a larger project to find and copy all of the Stanton and Anthony papers that still survive, go to the Rutgers project homesite.
U.S. Women's History Workshop Materials related to the 1850 and 1851 Conventions, male voices on woman's rights, and other documents. A collaborative effort of Massachusetts teachers (middle school through college) which seeks to make available American primary sources for teachers.
United States History Index: Colonial Era The Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692. This United States History index of the WWW Virtual Library has a special section devoted to the Salem witchcraft trials. Links to maps, (web)bibliographies, biographies, documents and articles.
Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Pictures and life stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Online exhibition by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women's history and Lesbian and gay collections.
Willa Cather Archive Digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship, a guide to her letters, biographies, digitized images, bibliography and resources for scholars and teachers. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Witchcraft in Salem Village Transcipts of the legal documents of the Salem Witchcraft outbreak of 1692 and related documents; a brief introduction to the Salem trials, a map of Salem village, and general information on the Danvers Archival Center.
Women and Social Movements This is the editorial website for 'Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000' (WASM). It offers access to selected materials on WASM and guidelines for prospective contributors. About a fourth of the projects on Women and Social Movements remain freely available. The site also has a Teachers Corner, and links to related projects.
Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women's visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
Women in Alaska's History Educational resources.
Women in Aviation Resource Center Educational, historical, and networking resources such as book reviews and links to museum sites. The aim of the websites is to empower women involved in all aspects of aviation.
Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The book is freely accessible through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries website.
Women in Transportation The history of the roles women played in improving travel in America from the 19th century to the present day. The website was created by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Women Wielding Power: Pioneer Female State Legislators This virtual exhibition at the National Women's History Museum highlights the first North-American pioneer legislators.
Women with a Deadline: Female Printers, Publishers, and Journalists from the Colonial Period to World War I This National Women’s History Museum exhibit follows the history of American women in print journalism from the early settlers to the turn of the 20th century, highlighting key figures and pioneers in the industry.
Women Working in the United States, 1800-1930 This site provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Featuring ca. 500,000 pages and images documenting women's roles in the U.S. economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.
Women's Legal History Website An index of pioneer women lawyers in the United States with links to biographical and other materials. Compiled by Barbara Babcock at the Robert Crown Library, Stanford Law School.
Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York.

Discussion Lists

Second Wave and Beyond An online "scholarly community" on the history of the U.S. women's movement since 1960. This form of electronic communications and research combines features of a discussion group, blog, and wikipedia incorporated into a traditional website.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 New blog/ discussion group.

Journals

Black Women, Gender & Families Women's Studies and Black Studies Journal
Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship / Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF) Minot State University is the institutional home of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
Women's Studies Quarterly The Feminist Press and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Reference

The National Women's History Project A guide for National Women's History Month activities in the USA. Resources include a list of women's history organizations and institutions and a collection of weblinks.
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites Women's Studies Online Resources will help you find information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists; women's studies files from the WMST-L File Collection; links to women's studies programs around the world and to the Center for Women and Information Technology; financial aid for women; updates to Internet Resources on Women; and more. By Joan Korenman, University of Maryland Baltimore County.

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Last updated 11 February 2013