This collection provides sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics. Materials are sourced from the Schlesinger Library and other archives.
Global collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals relating to the history of women and gender, with an emphasis on US sources. Most recent sources date to 1976.
In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
Oral history interviews with African Americans of all backgrounds, 1993-present. Complete transcriptions included.
The HistoryMakers, established in 1999, is a non-profit institution whose purpose is to record, preserve and disseminate the content of video oral history interviews highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements. Its aim is to provide a unique scholarly and educational resource for exploring African American history and culture. It is unique among collections of African American heritage because of its large and varied scope, with interviewees from across the United States, from a variety of fields, and with memories stretching from the 1890s to the present. Rather than focus on one particular part of a person’s life or a single subject, such as a career or participation in the civil rights movement, the interviews are life oral histories covering the person’s entire span of memories as well as his or her own family’s oral history.
Interviews were first conducted in 1993, and continue to the present. The archive continues to grow, so that queries saved today may have new results tomorrow based on new interviews added into the archive. Some people in the collection may be interviewed again, so that content for a particular person may grow as well. All of the appropriate metadata for the interviews is shown when you drill down to a particular person or a particular story.
Material from later 20th-century far-left and far-right political groups, including Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum
Part 1: Far-Right & Left Political Groups in the US, Europe, & Australia in the Twentieth Century provides archival collections covering far-right and radical left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera. Part 3: Global Communist and Socialist Movements provides access to primary sources created by a variety of communist, socialist, and Far-Left groups, and figures across the world's capitalist nations, as well as materials generated by anti-communist organizations and individuals. Coverage is primarily early twentieth century and concerns the "birth" or "evolution" of early communism and socialism, and ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, and Trotskyism. The resource provides insight into how communist and socialist groups saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events of the twentieth century, such as the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the Red Scare.
Digitized manuscripts from the Kinsey Institute, a pulp fiction collection and films from 1917-1990s, among other sources, are included here.
This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Investigating the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and personal accounts.
Broad teaching resource includes thematic essays as well as a big selection of printed primary sources.
More than 30,000 pages of text selected from a wide variety of sources, including some complete works. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, including subject terms, dates, characteristics of authors, etc.
These sources are from the British National Archives and relate to women in the UK and colonial territories in the 20th century.
Consists of original documents that cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962 plus a finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives.