Databases
- Accessible Archives (History Commons) This link opens in a new windowAccessible Archives includes diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views of United States history and culture, especially African American history and women's history and historical newspapers. The date scope focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Boston's LGBTQA+ History (Northeastern University)Brings together items from the library's archival collections illustrating a diverse range of individuals, activism, and networks in the Boston LGBTQA community from the 1970s onwards.
- GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowFull articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's.
- LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text of 26 magazines, chiefly from the US, covering LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) interests. Covers more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowPrimary source database with over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Keyword-searchable and with some pre-selected sub-collections of primary sources arranged around important historical events. Also includes author biographies and bibliographies for further research.
- Sage Encyclopedia of Trans Studies This link opens in a new windowAn interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to trans studies. Entries address broad concepts (e.g., the criminal justice system, activism, mental health), and specific subjects (e.g., the trans pride flag, the Informed Consent Model, voice therapy), key historical figures, events, and organizations (e.g., Lili Elbe, the Stonewall Riots, Black Lives Matter).
- Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials such as letters, diaries, publications, telling the story of woman suffrage, equal rights, and reproductive rights movements in the United States.
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowComplete archive of consumer magazines aimed at female readership, includes Good Housekeeping, Women’s Day, Ladies’ Home Journal and more. Covers a multitude of 19th and 20th century aspects of history and culture, including child education and development, fashion, design, health, and psychology.
- Women's Studies, Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights 1880-1990 This link opens in a new windowPapers of individual leaders of the women's movement in the United States, along with regional movements and organizations. Focus on first-wave feminism from 1850 to 1950.
- Women and Social Movements (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThe site includes primary source collections pertaining to Women and Social Movements in the United States with an emphasis on the progressive era and movements such as suffrage, abolition, and temperance.
- Women and Transnational Networks This link opens in a new windowSerials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals focusing on gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century, including trade unions and working women's rights, suffrage, birth control. Emphasis on movements in Britain and the United States.
- Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps This link opens in a new windowWomen at Work during World War II consists of two major sets of records documenting the experience of American women during World War II: Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps.
- Women Writers Online (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowEarly modern women's writings from 1400 to 1850. Includes searchable full-text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. Exhibits and teaching tools also available.
Online Resources
- Women Working (Harvard)An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.
- Digital Transgender ArchiveThe purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
- People with a History: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History SourcebookFordham University's "People with a History" presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender (BPL)**Requires Boston Public Library Card**
Students, educators, and researchers can now engage with a vast resource that connects them to rare and unique documentation of LGBTQ+ history through fully-searchable newsletters, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources.