LibGuides: Gender & Cultural Studies: Primary Resources

NEED PRIMARY SOURCES?

Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information, such as firsthand accounts of events in letters, diaries, interviews, or historical news reportage.

Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000 Why search here? WASM is useful for students and scholars of U.S women's history and U.S. history in general. It centers around the history of women and social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.What's included? The site brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies that document women’s reform activities.

Women and Social Movements, International Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
Schlesinger Library Find books, manuscripts, photographs, periodicals, and audiovisual materials, and periodicals which reveal the wide range of women's activities in the United States and abroad from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Discovering American Women's History Online 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. Use this guide to identify digital collections by topic.
North American Slave Narratives UNC Library
Women Working,1800-1930 Part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University Library, this is a great place to look for primary sources of women working in the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century. The digitized collection includes: books, pamphlets, images and some manuscripts. It is easy to browse or search the collection.
American Memory American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Queer Zine Archive Project The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a "living history" archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture, we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall under the heading "queer."
Digital Collections from the Sallie Bingham Center at Duke Collections of materials on the Women's Liberation Movement, African American women's experiences under slavery, and Civil War women. The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives around the world. You will find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. ArchiveGrid also helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies.
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The Victorian Web Primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts.

WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY PROJECT

Women in World History is a project of The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities that presents reviews and evaluations of web resources and primary source collections on women's history. It is a useful guide to students, researchers, and teachers of women's history. Browse by Reviews, Primary Resources, Analyzing, Modules, Case Studies, and Forums, or search for relevant resources, or search below: