LibGuides: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resources: Women's History

Archival Resources

Primary Sources about Women
A separate research guide for finding primary sources at UVA Libraries. Includes: diaries and letters; history; archives; periodicals; digital collections; microfilm collections held by UVA.
Women's History Sources in the Archives at the Library of Virginia
Information on researching primary sources at the Library of Virginia relating to women and the World Wars, women and the census, women and church records, women and the law, personal papers and more.
American Women from the Library of Congress
A guide to research resources at the Library of Congress with helpful essays listing bibliographies and other finding aids that may also be found at UVA Library.

Women and Social Movements This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 108 document projects and archives with almost 4,300 documents and more than 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by more than 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Use Journal Finder in VIRGO to see if UVA owns the journal issues cited in this index.

Collective Biographies of Women This link opens in a new window
Includes an annotated bibliography, growing archive of texts, resources featuring individual women, and new tools for interpreting prosopography. From UVA's Dr. Allison Booth.

ViVa Women's History
Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, and, occasionally Spanish, are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals.
Discovering American Women's History Online
This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

American Periodicals Series (1740-1940) This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 1000 magazines and journals published in the US between 1740 and 1940. Many early women's periodicals included. NOTE: Use alphabetical title list to browse for and limit searches to titles related to women's interests, e.g. L for Ladies, H for Home, etc.
Black Women’s Suffrage This link opens in a new window
The content featured in this collection explores linkages between women’s suffrage and other social causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (anti-slavery, anti-lynching, education reform, and civil rights) as well as racism within the Suffrage Movement.
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920 This link opens in a new window
Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.