Women's History: Find Web Resources

A comprehensive research guide on women's history.

Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the US census.

American Memory is a scholarly database of American History from the Library of Congress. This database is a good source for historical photographs. There are notable sections on Native Americans, women's sufferage, the military and war, and African American history. Check it out!

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources that document the history of women in the United States.

Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history. The collection contains books and journals from the 19th century Antebellum period through reconstruction. This database is a joint effort from Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Try the "subject browsing" for an effective search.

This on-line databases contains thousands of historical photos, diaries, newspapers, maps and other items from 160 collections of libraries, historical societies, museums and archives across New York State.

A Timeline of Key Events in the Women's Rights Movement (1848-1920)

History of the Women's Liberation Movement - an Historical Essay by Joanna Dyl

A History of the Women's Liberation Movement: it's origins, structures and ideas by Jo Freeman.

Published in 1792 by Mary Wollstonecraft, this treatise was one of the first feminist writings.