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Women's History: Types of Sources
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Types of Sources
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Primary Sources
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America. Watch and listen.
Digital Feminist Archives
Offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies.
Discovering American Women's History Online
Access to digital collections of primary sources that document the history of women in the United States. [17th century - present]
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
A collection of various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. [1969 - 1974]
Schlesinger Library
Harvard's Library on the History of Women in America documents the lives of women of the past and present.
Sophia Smith Collection
Women's History Archives at Smith College
Urban Primary Sources
Links to various primary source databases available from Urban Herbst Library.
Women's History Research Archives
Archives listed by region in the U.S. and international list of archives.
Databases
Proquest
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Recent articles from scholarly sources, magazines, newspapers, and more.
JStor
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Academic articles from the 1950s to present day!
U.S. History in Context
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Reference articles, primary sources and articles.
Black Women Radicals
Websites
Feminist.com
International Organizations: Women and Gender
(compiled by UC Berkeley International Documents Librarian)
Women's Studies Librarian's Office
University of Wisconsin
Women Watch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
Women's Studies Database
(University of Maryland)
Women's Studies Online Resources
Women's and Gender Studies Section
(Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association)
The School for Black Feminist Politics
A Black feminist political education initiative.
Chronologies
American Decades
Call Number: 973.9/AME
This series offers broad chronologies so you can get some context about what was happening socially, culturally, or politically during a specific decade.
Books
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