LibGuides: Women's History: Find Ebooks

Women's History

Discovering American Women's History Online - a digital collection of primary sources.

History eBooks

Ebooks are a good place to start your history research. Ebooks will give you important dates and background information, expand on the ideas that lead up to historical events and discuss the after-effects in depth.

You can access ebooks through the EBSCO Host or other databases listed below.

Databases with Ebooks

eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Dates vary. Multi-disciplinary. This database contains over 140,000 complete e-books, covering a wide range of academic subjects, that can be read online or downloaded to a tablet, reader, or smart phone.
eBooks (Gale- previously GVRL) This link opens in a new window
1998 - Present. Multidisciplinary specialized encyclopedias and reference sources. Full-text. Gale
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online reference library containing the full text of hundreds of reference titles, including dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles, featuring in-depth articles, images, sound files, animations, and videos. Full-text.

E-Books on the History of Women

American Women's History: A Student Companion by Glenna Matthews
ISBN: 9780195113174
Publication Date: 2000
Indigenous Women: 1940 - 1980 by Mary Jane Logan McCallium
ISBN: 9780887557385
Publication Date: 2014
Women's Rights Are Human Rights by United Nations (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2015-01-28
Landmarks of American Women's History by Page Putnam Miller
Publication Date: 2004-02-19
American Women's Rights Movement by Paul D. Buchanan
Publication Date: 2009-12-01