Online Resources
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new windowIncludes 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including core documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Also includes ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets is featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals
- Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new windowThe full-text image documents the feminist movement from 17th century to the 20th century across the English-speaking world. It includes anti-feminist and pro-feminist books, periodicals, pamphlets, and images.
- Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new windowFull text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press
- World Protest & Reform Movements: Global Perspectives This link opens in a new windowTranslated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to major protest and reform movements.
- Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new windowRevolution and Protest Online explores the protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present. Organized around more than thirty events and areas, representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics, this collection will include at completion 175 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials.
- Women and Social Movements Library This link opens in a new windowOrganized around the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present,
- Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new windowFocusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.
- Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new windowEssential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
- ONE National Gay and Lesbian ArchivesONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers. A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.
- Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 This link opens in a new windowOver 230 digitized manuscripts originally composed between 1500 and 1700 in the British Isles
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowA complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month
- Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images.
- ACLU American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 This link opens in a new windowThe records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination, immigration, labor, radicalism, and related topics support the study of American legal history and complement the modules in the Making of Modern Law series. Documents include newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memorandums, telegrams, minutes, and legal case records.
- Southern California Women Artists Archive: Finding AidUnder the direction of Professor Gloria Orenstein, a joint faculty member in the Gender Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature, undergraduate students enrolled in her ARLT 100 course interviewed women artists from Southern California and wrote term-papers based on the interviews. The course sessions were taught between 2006 and 2012. The interviews, term papers, and any other materials collected by the students were deposited in the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library at USC.