Women's Studies Primary Sources

Send comments and questions to: Kristi Palmer, Women's Studies Librarian.

What is a primary resource??

• Using Primary Sources on the Web
  Online guide to using primary resources provided by the University of Washington. Includes information on defining, finding, and evaluating primary resources.
• Primary vs. Secondary Sources
  Defintions, Examples, and Specific Examples sections explain the difference between primary and secondary sources. Provided by the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library.

Electronic Resources (Finding Digital Primary Material)

Women's Studies & History

• American Memory 
  • "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850 - 1920.
• American Women: Library of Congress Resources
  • Includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, images, and other research materials.
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
  • Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement 
  • An on-line archival collection of the Special Collections Library, Duke University.
• Gifts of Speech
  • Contemporary women's speeches from around the world.
• In the First Person
  • An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.
• The Margaret Sanger Papers Project 
  • Historical editing project to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries 
  • "Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before." (from website)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
  • 1000 primary documents offering new ways to study American History.
• Women in Print
  • Compilation of published articles and materials on feminist/lesbian bookselling and publishing.
• Women' Working, 1800-1930
  • "Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images"-collection's website. 

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Send Comments and Questions to: Kristi Palmer, Subject Librarian for Women's Studies.