Gender Studies

Contains primary documents focusing on African American culture, social conditions, and identity in Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. Includes individual papers collections as well as the Chicago Urban League papers (c1916-1985). Also includes the civil rights magazine The Messenger for the years 1925-1928, and papers about housing projects.

Provides access to FBI files on the American Indian Movement (AIM) and gives detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism from 1968.

Illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. The archive includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, and other documents. Materials span from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990.

Series 2 offers primary and secondary content focusing on the evolution of civil rights, religion, and women’s rights ranging from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.

Full-text access to more than 1500 sources (including some 150 periodicals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups and government and international agencies) on a broad range of women's issues worldwide.

From the libraries at Duke University, this resource offers manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting aspects of the women's movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

A repository of perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and changes in gender roles, dating back to the 1970s.

Provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the labor movement, ecology and the environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. Usage info: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.

Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Explore domestic consumerism, commercial tastes, and life and leisure in America between 1850-1950.

This resource offers document projects and document archives about the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, teaching tools, and access to Notable American Women and the database on Commissions on the Status of Women.

Literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. A tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and development of black people in the Diaspora.

Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Includes approximately 100,000 pages of primary materials.

Searchable database of the correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison, seen as the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. Will ultimately include close to 2,500 letters. An important scholarly contribution to the literature of the early republic, women's history, and the institution of the First Lady.

"includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description.

"includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description.

"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.

When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information spanning from the 18th century to the present.

Provides access to some 150,000 pages of letters and diaries of 1,300+ women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.

Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.

Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access.

To search just newspapers, limit search to "Document Type" = Newspaper.

Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S.

A four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries. Starting with collections by feminists and the GI press, the collection will grow to include small literary magazines, underground newspapers, LGBT periodicals, the minority press (Latino, Black and Native American) and the extreme right-wing press.

An American women's rights newspaper published by Amelia Bloomer. Coverage here: 1849-1856.

An American monthly newspaper published by women's rights advocate Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1878-1881.

An American women’s fashion magazine that developed into an important cultural and literary source over the course of the mid-nineteenth century, under the editorship of Sarah Hale. This online resource offers the complete run of the magazine.

A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the latter half of the 20th century. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines.

A searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years. It is in progress and is not yet complete.

"When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles ... of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions ..."--"About" page.

Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.

Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Find images by garment type, designer and brand names. Preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers.

Searchable index, with links to some full text, to 45 major Victorian periodicals. While many articles written for Victorian periodicals were published anonymously or under pseudonyms, this index identifies the authors of articles and provides a bibliography for each contributor.

A searchable archive of 12 popular women's interest magazines, dating from the late nineteenth century through 2005. Titles include Better Homes and Gardens, Essence, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook.

Provides 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles of video for the study of American history.

Offers documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, the environment, and more.

Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some with links to audio or video on external websites).

Provides access to documentaries from filmmakers worldwide, with content that spans from the beginning of human history to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.