Feminist Studies  Tags: women feminism gender lgbt social_movements history social_sciences primary sources  

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Wall Street Journal - - 1889-1985

Women's Studies Specific Archives & Primary Sources

American Memory's Women's History Collections - broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, recordings, rare books, government publications and more from the Libarary of Congress

Defining Gender (1450-1910) - five centuries of advice literature; also includes secondary source material - biographies, a chronology, and essays

Everyday Life of Women in America (19th and 20th centuries) - books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides from the Sallie Bingham Center (Duke) and NYPL collections

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online (1543-1945) - books, journals and pamphlets documenting feminist consciousness and women's rights movements in the West

Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1855) - a popular 19th century women's magazine

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (colonial period-1920) - 82,000 pages of letters and diaries from 632 women

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Scholar's Edition is forthcoming)

Other Useful Archives & Primary Sources

American Periodical Series (1741-1900) - U.S. periodicals published between 1741 and 1900.

ARTstor Images with accompanying data, and software tools to actively use

HarpWeek (1857-1912) - Harper's Weekly, a popular 19th century magazine

Calisphere - images related to California history form UC libararies and museums, and cultural instituitons in California

HEARTH (Home Economics Archive: Research Tradition, and History) - books and journals in home economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950

Online Archive of California - descriptions of collections of primary sources from over 150 California institutions

Reader Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) - the most popular general interest periodicals of the 20th century

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974 - - diaries, letters, autobiographies, memoirs, oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary

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