Full text of monographs, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides from Duke University's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, and the New York Public Library. Materials address social, political, gender, and a host of other issues and is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature. Also includes contextual essays by leading scholars.
Contains the diaries and letters of large number of women writers. Fully searchable, the contents also include biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the material.
Consists of materials documenting women's voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights from national, regional, and local leaders in the United States.
National leaders featured in this module include Carrie Chapman Catt, Matilda Joslyn Gage and many others. Regional and local leaders represented include Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Helen Barten Owens, Clementina Rhodes Hartshorne and many others. On the topic of national politics, major collections include papers of Molly Dewson, Emma Guffey Miller, Sue Shelton White, Jeannette Rankin, and Jessica Weis. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League.
Contains personal narratives of immigrants to the United States and Canada. Materials including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral history interviews, beginning around 1840 and extending to the present.