American Studies

Comprehensive, descriptive and analytical reference on women and religion in North America.

Publication date: 2004

The site includes primary sources about the history of women's education at Bryn Mawr, including the Summer School for Women Working in Industry.

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. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

Focuses on the Georgia LGBTQ community.

From the Library's of Congress' American Memory project.

A digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression, from Harvard University's library holdings. Provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.

This project, from the University of North Carolina, offers nearly 150 oral histories (including audio files and transcripts) of women from the South.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America documents the lives of women of the past and present for the future and furthers the Radcliffe Institute's commitment to women, gender, and society.

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. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

Gerber/Hart Library and Archives was founded in 1981 to be a depository for the records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) individuals and organizations, and for other resources bearing upon their lives and experiences in American society. Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has since grown into being the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ circulating library with over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.

The archives holds more than 1100 manuscript collections that chronicle the lives and work of Iowa women, their families, and their communities.

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world.

The consortium partners with libraries and cultural institutions across Washington to list and catalog their sources of information about Washington women’s history. Each partner provides access to digital collections related to women's history in the state.