Guide to Primary sources: Women

All items related to women in one convenient search.

Discover women’s impact in the field of science.

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

Search generally on women or specifically on people or events.

Three curated collections on specific topics in women's history at the Library of Congress.

Mostly related to women's suffrage, but other topics in activism covered.

The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.

Digitized papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

Diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression

Women's speeches from around the world

Sources about Women's history throughout time and geography.

Browse more than 200 primary sources by region.

Diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States.