Sources
This is a list of some possible primary sources to get you started, but is not comprehensive.
If you don't find what you need here, try a simple Google search using one of these terms and your topic:
- archives
- correspondence
- diaries
- interviews
- pamphlets
- papers
- personal narratives
- primary sources
- speeches
- sound recordings
For example: Charlotte Perkins Gilman papers
Archives of Women's Political Communication (Iowa State)
College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education
Discovering Women's History Online
Digital Public Library of America
Feeding America: Digital Collection of American's most influential cookbooks
Feminist Majority Foundation: Documents from the U.S. feminist movement, 1953-1993
HEARTH- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
Gifts of Speech - Women's Speeches from Around the World: 400+ speeches from 1948-present
Iowa State Archives of Women's Political Communication
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Women's History
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Robin Flies Again: Letters Written by Women of Goucher College, Class of 1903
Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
Women's History from the National Archives
Women's Liberation Movement Print Collection
Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music (Library of Congress)
- American Women: a gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the US. This link opens in a new windowAn expanded online and searchable edition of the print publication "American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (2001)"
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowIndexes from a variety of essential women's studies databases. Includes:
- Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present);
- Women's Studies Database (1972-present);
- New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-present);
- WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-1990);
- Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-1990);
- The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology.
The Journal of Women's History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1989 covering women's history. It explores multiple perspectives of feminism rather than promoting a single unifying form. Articles published in this journal showcase the dynamic international field of women's history.