Includes collections from archives, libraries and museums from across Minnesota. Highlights include photographs of students and faculty at normal schools (Mankato State and Winona), as well as collections from the American Swedish Institute and the...
Immigrants; Indians of North America; Jewish women; Nuns; Religion; Swedish American women; Teachers Colleges; Women college students; Women college teachers
This collection documents the history of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), Coverage includes founding and early years of the college (1850-1870); student and academic life; racial and ethnic diversity among women physicians;...
African American women physicians; Missionaries; Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Women medical students; Women physicians; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945
This collection includes more than 1500 primary source items that document the history of Mount Holyoke College from the 1840s to the 1990s. Highlights include items from the collections of politician Ella Grasso, physician Virginia Apgar, and New...
Women college teachers; Women college students; Women legislators; Women physicians; Women's colleges
This site offers a variety of eyewitness accounts, including "Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls, 1872;" Laura Ingalls Wilder's diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri,; Marie Adams' account of the internment of American...
Timeline entries link to online primary sources (images, documents, and material objects). Highlights include portraits of notable New Jersey women, a poster advertising a dance performance by Ruth St. Denis, and the text of
Lucy Stone's protest...
This collection includes images (and documentation) of thousands of quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections. Search fields include pattern name, quilter, location made (state), and time period.
Quilts
United States -- Alabama; United States -- Arkansas; United States -- California; United States -- Florida; United States -- Georgia; United States -- Illinois; United States -- Indiana; United States -- Iowa; United States -- Kansas; United States...
See the "artifacts" section for images of political campaign buttons, historic images, gallery passes, collectable cards, and magazine covers. The site also includes biographical profiles, historical essays, historical data, and educational...
This collection includes full-length interviews with seven women who played key roles in the suffrage movement. Burnita Shelton Matthews remembers law school, the origin and development of the Equal Rights Amendment, and her appointment as the...
Equal Rights Amendment; Suffragists; Women -- Suffrage
Maine's statewide digitization program provides access to primary sources from over 180 museums, historical societies, libraries, and other organizations. Highlights include photographs of women working (e.g., nurses, switchboard operators);...
Civil War, 1861-1865; Employment; Shakers; Women -- Suffrage; World War, 1939-1945
This collection brings together a wide variety of primary sources from the Idaho State Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, and Washington State University Pullman. The site also includes tutorials on...
African Americans; Basque Americans; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans; Women
United States -- Idaho; United States -- Oregon; United States -- Washington (State)
This narrative history includes more than 60 photographs. Sections cover the early emphasis on gymnastics and calisthenics; the creation of the Women's Athletic Association; the debate over whether women should participate in competitive sports;...
Education (Higher); Women athletes; Women college students
This guide is a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication, American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001).
This online exhibit features selected sources from the papers of six key activists and the records of Women's Action Alliance and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
Issues covered include labor, socialism, civil liberties, peace, racial...
Feminism; Feminists; Women lawyers; Women social reformers
This collection includes full transcripts from approximately 50 interviews. Examples of some of the topics covered: anti-pornography movement; anti-violence and anti-poverty programs; lesbian rights; labor and peace activism; reproductive justice.
