AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY LINKS

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Salem Witch Trials

The diary of Martha Ballard, an early American midwife


The Nineteenth Century

Civil War Women

The Harriet Jacobs Papers

African-American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

The Oneida Community

More on the Oneida Community

The Shakers


The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. In 1911, this fire killed 146 workers, mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, who were trapped inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City.

Jane Addams' Hull House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago


Modern America, 1920-present

Beauty and hygiene advertisements from the 1920s through 1950s section of the Ad*Access Project database of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, Special Collections Library, Duke University

A Thin Blue Line: A History of the Pregnancy Test Kit, Stetten Museum, Office of NIH (National Institutes of Health) History

A History of Miss America, American Experience, PBS

Interview with Vicki Ruiz, author of books about twentieth-century Mexican-American women and Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at University of California-Irvine


General Women's History

Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000

Places Where Women Made History: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary-Featuring Historic Places in Massachusetts and New York

American Women's History: A Research Guide

Talking about Women in History

Women's Labor History

The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998

The Lesbian Herstory Archives

National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY

National Women's History Project

Recommended books about Native American women, compiled by the Smithsonian Institution

Jewish Women's Archive