Primary Sources for History

Provides access to primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. The material demonstrates how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, and erotica, from the 16th century forward.This archive includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I & II, Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

This collection includes the experiences of hundreds of women, as revealed diaries and letters, spanning more than 300 years.

Provides thousands of different commercial clothing patterns originally published between 1868-2000. Includes advanced searching that allows one to easily find patterns for specific types of clothing from different time periods.

This digital collection provides access to primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

A women's history collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Collected by Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen starting In the late 1800's and spans four centuries and 15 languages. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.

A collection of letters and diaries of 1,325 women who lived in North America before 1960.

The collection provides a window into American social history (illustrates both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave) by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social norms across the twentieth century.

A collection of thousands of video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. The interviews have been conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.

An archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, and including pages, advertisements, covers and fold-outs. This archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

A collection of women's interest magazines from the 19th century through present. Topics include consumer culture, economics/marketing, family life, fashion, gender studies, health and fitness, home/interior design, popular culture, and social history.

These collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College consist of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights.

Women and Social Movements is divided into document projects that interpret and present materials, many of which are not otherwise available online, in U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Formats include audio-video, images and websites as well as printed materials.