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HIS220: US Women's History

Welcome to the Course Guide for HIS220: US Women's History

The Chatham University Archives & Special Collections at the JKM Library are thrilled to share materials from the collections that document, describe, and reflect how the founding of the university relates to the history of women in the United States.

Use the tabs on the left to explore selections from the collections made available especially for this class.

Explore resources below for additional material on the history of women in the United States.

American Women's History Primary Sources

African American Women Online, Duke University
Digitized collections highlighting the lives of slaves and the children of slaves.
American Jewess, 1895-1898, Jewish Women's Archive
A digital collection of American Jewess, a magazine aimed at Jewish women in the United States.
American Memory: Women's History Collections
Digital collections including broadsides and printed ephemera, manuscripts, and documents related to women's suffrage.
Civil War Women Online, Duke University
Three online collections highlighting women's experiences during the US Civil War.
Discovering American Women's History Online
A searchable index of 600 digital collections of American women's history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project
This site includes various speeches, articles, and other primary sources related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Emma Spaulding Bryant Collection, Duke University
Everyday Life & Women in America
Documents pertaining to American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially pertaining to women.
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Five Colleges Archives Digital Access Project
This site includes digitized collections of archival records related to women's history and women's education at the "Five Colleges": Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and UMass.
Greenfield Center for the History of Women's Education
This site includes primary sources related to the history of women in education, mostly centered in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Harvard's Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Digital collections include the Betty Friedan Paper, the Beecher-Stowe Family papers, the Charlotte Perkins Gilman papers, and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union Records.
The Revolution Newspaper
The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the US & UK, 1815-1914
Over 420 images of published trial narratives from the Harvard University School of Law Library.
Women's History, US National Archives
A comprehensive research guide to online collections related to women's history.
Women's History Archive at Smith College
This site includes digital collections of images, online exhibits, oral histories, and audio and video recordings covering reproductive rights, women's rights, suffrage, women's movement, labor, and family life.
Women's Travel Diaries, Duke University
Over 100 diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe
Women Physicians, 1850-1970
This site includes correspondence, clippings, college records, images, diaries, publications, and ephemera related to the history of women physicians.
Women Working, 1800-1930
This collection documents the history of women working in the United States between 1800-1930.
College Women: Seven Sisters Archives
Collection of materials found in archives of schools formerly known as the "Seven Sisters."

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American Women's History Primary Sources