Women in U.S. History: HIST/GSWS 3225

Major United States newspapers, Black American newspapers, and a couple of international publications. Coverage from 1800-2000 (varies by titles)

America's Historical Newspapers provides searchable, scanned newspaper pages. The collection contains Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5 (1690-1922), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998), and The Civil War (1840-1877).

Incorporates the New York Times Index  

The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-2001. When digitization is complete, the complete run will include 1829-2009.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
Women's Studies Archive provides materials on women's political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women's voices, from female-authored literature to women's periodicals.

Gender: Identity and Social Change covers gender history, women’s suffrage, the feminist movement and the men’s movement, and includes pamphlets, speeches, newsletters, newspaper clippings and more.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries Includes the personal experiences of women writing from Colonial times to 1950; represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Proquest Congressional provides congressional working papers, legislation, and the full text of the Congressional record.
Search on terms related to women's issues, e.g. "suffrage", "birth control", "single mothers", "equal pay."

Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting women's reform activities and examines perspectives on women's social movements from 1600-2000. Also includes access to the publications of the federal, state, and local Commissions on the Status of Women.

The Herstory Collection (select collections > Herstory) comprises full texts of journals, newspapers, and newsletters tracing the evolution of women's rights movements in the United States and abroad from 1956 to 1974.

Independent Voices is a growing digital collection of the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative and small press archives of participating libraries.

American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) provides full text articles from American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900.