Women in America
Film Study Center, Harvard University
The diary of Maine midwife Martha Ballard constituted the primary evidence and focus of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's award-winning book, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 (1990 ). This site teaches its visitors historical methodology as well.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton
Organized around a collection of more than 600 primary documents, this website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History.
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
Various full text resources by American and English women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
American Memory, Library of Congress
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, Digital Schomburg
This selection of published works by African American women writers encompasses 52 works.
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
American Memory, Library of Congress
This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals, photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.
The Triangle Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
This website offers the story of the Triangle Factory Fire through primary and secondary sources.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Special Collections Library, Duke University
This collection contains documents of the radical origins of the women's liberation movement from the late 1960s and early 1970s.