Publications and documents relating to the history of the gay rights movement in America, including an interactive timeline, subject-coded court cases, scholarly articles, books, pamphlets, reports, and more.
Primary source document collections and curatorial essays. The digital exhibits on this platform are designed for students, teachers, and scholars of queer history.
Collection of open access alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Publications produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Collection of online content covering LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the United States and around the world. Includes primary sources, first-hand accounts, coverage of significant events, and essential artifacts of cultural memory.
Captures digital content related to LBGTQ+ political candidates and political issues and topics at various levels of government, with a focus on lesser-known local and state politics.
Postcard collection of cabaret and stage performances by male and female impersonators in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930. From Cornell University.
Books, periodicals, and pamphlets on women's history and the evolution of feminism. Covers four centuries and 15 languages, with publications from the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and continental Europe.
Two collections in this database:
The Periodical Series: This segment represents about 25 percent of the material in the database. It comprises 265 titles, including The Suffragist (1913-21) and The Women's Protest Against Woman Suffrage (1912-18).
Monograph Language Series: These 4,471 monographs and pamphlets make up about 75 percent of the collection. Included are 2,336 titles tracing suffragism in the English-speaking world. The collection will soon include 929 German titles that document the history of organized movements in Germany and Switzerland, and 734 French titles that cover women's issues from Gallic times through World War II.
Conference proceedings, organization reports, publications, and websites of women's non-governmental organizations. Also includes letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century, as well as photographs and videos of major events and activists in the history of women’s international social movements.
Chronicles feminist activism in relation to development in the Global South - cultural, economic, social, and technological change associated with modernity, “progress,” and economic advancement. These changes have led to incredibly unequal outcomes for women in comparison to men, and for those living in the “developing world” (here noted as the Global South) in comparison to the industrialized, wealthy, and powerful, North.
Primary and secondary sources, including magazines, pamphlets, and books, by, for, and about women, and important issues related to their lives and roles in society, including on women's education, health, and religion.
Primary sources documenting women's movements and women activists in the US, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include women and antislavery, women's suffrage, the Feminist movement, Equal Rights movement, and women's role in Civil Rights .
Provides the immigrant experience in the United States and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Collection of personal narratives, letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, oral histories, Ellis Island Oral History interviews, and political cartoons.
Collection documenting the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on the radical origins of this movement. Includes manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials such as radical theoretical writings, to humorous plays, to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
Documents from the most significant socialist feminist women’s unions of the “second wave” feminist movement. CWLU was formed in 1969 and played a leading role in the women’s liberation movement in Chicago during the 1970s.
Complete archives of consumer magazines published for a female audience, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. These magazines cover family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and culture, and provide canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. Publications are in high-resolution color.
Archive of Women's Wear Daily magazine, from its launch in 1910 up to six months ago, reproduced in high-resolution images. Documents the history of the fashion industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers, and advertisers.