HIS215 Women in United States History: Primary Sources on the Web

The Library of Congress's gateway to it's materials on American women.

From Middle Tennessee State University, each section includes a timeline that links specific events with relevant online sources, such as diaries and letters, photograph collections, and lectures by historians.

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

Transcriptions and images of over 1,000 letters written between 1762 and 1801

Early late 18th and 19th c diary of a midwife Martha Ballard

Digitized collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692

More than 100 books primarily English with some French and German works

Digital collection that documents the female experience in the Armed Forces through letters, papers, photographs, published materials, uniforms, artifacts, and oral histories from WWI to the present

Collection of cookbooks primary from the 19th century

Digitized pageant programs from the beauty contest

Small collection of "photographs, articles, flyers, planning documents, and responses to the 1968 and 1969 Miss America pageant protests"

Over 420 published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 to 1914

Oral history transcripts of more than 50 "labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders."

Guide to print and manuscript materials at the Rubenstein Library related to women and their roles in the Civil War.

More than 1,000 images mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Swedish women's suffrage site includes photographs, documents and other material

Collection of clippings, pamphlets, photographs and other material

Collection of 186 books and pamphlets dealing with women's suffrage

More than 700 photographs especially of the 1913 International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress

More than 400 digitized photographs dating primarily from 1913 to 1922

More than 200 images of British suffrage banners

Collection of documents on the history of women's higher education

Harvard and Business Education for Women 1937-1970.

Digital collection of books and magazines dealing with home economics from 1850 to 1950

Digitized collections cover millinery and dressmaking, cookery and other home economics subjects

Photographs documenting the history of the College of Home Economics at Cornell University during the early 20th century

Collection of letters written by a cohort of Goucher alumna between the years 1919 and 1938

Oral history videos with women who worked in factories during WWII

Collection of oral history interviews of women who worked in defense plants in the San Francisco area during WWII

Digital collection of materials illustrating the history of women in medicine

Collection of manuscripts, books, and photographs

Letters and diaries of the renown traveler to Iraq and the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Digitized collection includes correspondence, writings by Kelley and other material

Narrative plus an archive of primary sources including transcripts of letters

Transcribed articles and speeches by Sanger