These are just a few of the library's databases that can be used to search for articles and more relating to women's history. For a full list of databases dealing with history, please visit the A to Z database list and select History under the button that says All Subjects.
A valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database with full-text peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Consists of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Access written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience in this digital record of American history and creativity.
Offers early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials illuminating more than 250 years of American history, literature, culture, and daily life and enabling researchers to explore America’s past in unprecedented ways.
Searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of American newspapers, including eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, and obituaries. This collection chronicles the evolution of culture and daily life from 1690 to the recent past.
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids.
An exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
The unique and independent American woman: adventurer, pioneer, poet, mother, educator, artist, freedom fighter. These videos examine the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories.
Covering 300+ years, this collection of women’s diaries and correspondence draws material from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, conference proceedings, & more. Great for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, and literature.
The Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States will eventually offer short biographies of 3,700 grassroots women suffragists whose activism was concentrated in the period 1890-1920, but also occurred before and after those years. Using the names of suffragists found in contemporary publications and other sources, this resource has used online databases and newspapers to support biographical sketches of thousands of women heretofore not featured in historical accounts of the movement.
Previously Archive of Americana search interface. Explore virtually every aspect of United States history, culture, and daily life across three centuries with access to newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government publications, primary documents, and more.
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.