Pathfinder for Women's History
by Carol Faulkner, Compiler
This list is supplemented by an updated list of bibliographic resources available at Archives Library and Information Center created in 2001 entitled the Women's Bibliographic Resource List II.
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Introduction
The subdiscipline of women's history began in the 1960s. Both the feminist movement and the new study of social history contributed to the development of women's history. Because of these connections, women's history generally expounds a certain political viewpoint and focuses on a specific type of history (social history is "history from below").
The women's history collection in the library of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is small and concentrates on works that are relevant to NARA's record holdings. In fact, many of the works cite NARA record groups as sources (specifically the records of the Census Bureau, the Women's Bureau, the Children's Bureau, the Works Projects Administration, and the Freedman's Bureau).
This pathfinder is organized into seven categories: Bibliographies, Reference Works/Biographical Sources, Journals, Collections of Primary Material, Monographs and Anthologies, Archival Research, and Guides to Archives. Monographs and Anthologies is further subdivided thematically. In my descriptions of the works, especially the monographs, I have tried to convey some of the major themes and problems in women's history.
BibliographiesHaber, Barbara, Women in America: A Guide to Books,
1963-1975, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978. Includes index.
Organized topically with a brief introduction at the beginning of
each chapter and abstracts for each book.
REF Z7964 .U49 H3
Harrison, Cynthia Ellen, Women in American History: A
Bibliography, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1979. Includes
index. Primarily divided by time period with chapters on research
and teaching, general, regional, and Canada. Contains books and
journal articles with abstracts. Subject and author index.
REF Z7962 .H3
Huls, Mary Ellen, United States Government Documents on
Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography, Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1993. Two volumes. Volume I covers social
issues and volume II covers labor. The author organized Volume I
into thematic chapter headings (examples: Suffrage and Political
Participation, Education of Women). Within each chapter, the
documents are arranged chronologically and then by agency.
Volume II is divided thematically and by type of work, including
one chapter on the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.
There is a subject and personal author index at the end of each
volume.
REF Z7964 .U49 H85
Krichmar, Albert, The Women's Rights Movement in the United
States, 1848-1970: A Bibliography and Sourcebook, Metuchen,
NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
Z7964 .U49 K7
Lerner, Gerda and Marie Laberge, Women are History: A
Bibliography in the History of American Women, Madison:
Graduate Program in Women's History, Dept. of History, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Z7964 .U49 L4
The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women, Volume
I compiled by Mabel Ward Cameron, New York: Halvord Publishing,
1924. Volumes II and III compiled by Erma Conkling Lee, New York:
Franklin W. Lee Publishing, 1925, 1928
REF CT3260 .B5
Ireland, Norma Olin, Index to Women of the World from
Ancient to Modern Times: Biographies and Portraits, Westwood,
MA: F. W. Faxon Co, 1970. Organized by topic and then
alphabetically. Topics include pioneers, religion, literature,
science.
Z7963 .B6 I73
James, Edward T., Barbara Sicherman, and Radcliffe College,
Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary,
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971,
Vol. 1-3. 1607-1950
REF CT3260 .N57
Sicherman, Barbara and Carol Hurd Green, Notable American
Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary,
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1980.
REF CT3260 .N573
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements for the
Commemoration of the Bicentennial, Women in Congress,
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1976.
Alphabetical. Contains biographical information on past and
present female members of Congress.
HQ1391 .U5 W6
United States. Congress. House. Commission on the Bicentenary and
the United States Congress. House Office of the Historian,
Women in Congress, 1917-1990, Washington: United States
Government Printing Office, 1991.
REF JK1030 .A2
The National Archives Library subscribes to a number of
American history journals, including Journal of American
History, American Historical Review, William and Mary Quarterly,
Labor History, Journal of Social History, Journal of American
Ethnic History, Journal of Negro History, and Journal of
Interdisciplinary History. There are guides to periodical
literature available in print, including The Reader's Guide to
Periodical Literature and the Humanities Index. A
librarian can also help you search for articles on the online
databases. The Article1st and HumanitiesIn databases on OCLC's
FirstSearch are the most helpful. However, the Article1st
database begins in January 1990 and the HumanitiesIn begins in
January 1984 (the printed indexes should be used for older
articles).
Daedalus: The Woman in America, Cambridge, MA: American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1964. Early, primarily
theoretical, articles on women. Topics include working women,
sexual equality, and the changing status of women in America as
well as articles on Jane Addams and Eleanor Roosevelt.
HQ1420 .D2
Kraditor, Aileen S., Up from the Pedestal: Selected
Writings in the History of American Feminism, Chicago:
Quadrangle Books, 1968. Collection of documents from the history
of American feminism with an introduction to the collection
HQ1410 .K7
Ladd-Taylor, Molly, Raising a Baby the Government Way:
Mothers' Letters to the Children's Bureau, 1915-1932, New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Introduction
includes a brief history of the Children's Bureau and its
influence on childbearing and childrearing practices and child-
related legislation in the first half of the 20th century, as
well as a discussion of the transformation of the Bureau's
personnel from mothers and reformers to doctors and other
professionals. The body of the book contains letters found by the
author in the Children's Bureau records at NARA (file numbers and
record groups are located in the appendix).
HQ769 .R3
Lerner, Gerda, Black Women in White America: A Documentary
History, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972
E185.86 .L4
National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Public
Programs Education Branch, Women in Industry World War II,
Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co, 1991. Photographs, letters,
and government publications relating to women's work during World
War II.
D810 .W7 W6
The Right to Vote. Washington: National Archives, 1987.
Introduction by Nancy E. Allyn. Covers both black and woman
suffrage. Reproductions of documents from the General Records of
the United States Government (RG 11).
KF 4891 .R54
Overviews
Banner, Lois W., Women in Modern America: A Brief
History, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Divides
modern American women's history into three stages of feminist
activism: 1890-1920, active; 1920-1960, little activism; and
1960-present, resurgence of activism.
HQ1419 .B35
Evans, Sara M., Born for Liberty: A History of Women in
America, New York: Free Press Collier Macmillan, 1989. Broad
overview of the history of American women from early America to
the 1980s. More focus on Native-American, African-American, and
immigrant women (excluding Asian immigrants) than other
overviews.
HQ1410 .E83
Flexner, Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights
Movement in the United States, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1959. Early overview of American
women's history from the colonists to suffrage, focusing
primarily on the fight for suffrage. Contains extensive
biographical information on famous women.
HQ1410 .F6
O'Neill, William, Everyone was Brave: A History of Feminism
in America, New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co,
1976. Covers the history of American women from the 19th century
woman's rights movement to the mid-20th century. An early work in
the history of women, but important for the historiography.
O'Neill considers his work an inquiry into the failure of
feminism.
Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol Dubois. Unequal Sisters: A
Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. 2nd Edition.
New York: Routledge, 1994. A collection of articles focusing on
American-Indian, working-class, African-American, and Asian-
American women in a variety of time periods
HQ1410 .U54 1994
Genovese, Eugene D., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the
Slaves Made, New York: Pantheon, 1972. The recent history of
African-American women builds on Genovese's work and Herbert
Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom. Both
Gutman and Genovese respond to the Moynihan Report of 1965 which
called the prevalence of black female-headed families
pathological and attributed the disintegration of black family
life to slavery. Genovese and Gutman reconstruct the lives of
slaves and the relationships between men, women, and their
children on the plantation. Genovese also discusses women's lives
in terms of work and household duties. He describes the
master/slave relationship as paternalistic
E443 .G4
Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of
Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: William
Morrow, 1984. Thorough overview of African-American women's
history. Covers slavery, the club women's movement, anti-
lynching, the northern migration, work, and other issues to the
present
E185.86 .G49 1984
Gutman, Herbert G., The Black Family in Slavery and
Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976. Like
Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll, this monograph responds to
the Moynihan Report of 1965. Gutman argues for the endurance of
black family life under slavery. He uses plantation records and
the marriage records of the Freedman's Bureau
(RG 105) to support his argument. Includes analysis of the lives
of both male and female slaves.
E185.86 G7
Hine, Darlene Clark and Patrick Kay Bidelman, The Black
Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource
Guide, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1986.
Includes indexes. Historical essays, oral histories, biographical
profiles, and document collections
E185.86 .B5
Degler, Carl N., At Odds: Women and the Family in America
from the Revolution to the Present, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1980. Discusses the interrelationship of the
history of the family and the history of women. Title based on
the fact that the equality of women and the institution of the
family have long been "at odds." Primarily the history of the
white middle-class family but includes some information on black
and immigrant families.
HQ1418 .D4
Kennedy, David M., Birth Control in America: The Career of
Margaret Sanger, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970.
A biography and a history of the birth control movement of the
early 20th century. In Women in America: A Guide to Books,
Barbara Haber criticizes Kennedy for his limited analysis of
Sanger's life (he stops at 1940) and for being too critical of
Sanger.
HQ764 .S3 K45
Leavitt, Judith Walzer, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in
America, 1750 to 1950, New York: Oxford University Press,
1986. Includes index. Traces the changes in birthing practices of
doctors, midwives, and mothers. She focuses on middle- and
upper-class women. Includes chronology and glossary.
RG518 .U5 L4
Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and
Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1980. Kerber argues that women created a
new social role for themselves in the early republic: the
"Republican Mother," a woman excluded from the political process
but with a crucial role in the new republic, raising republican
sons. Kerber discusses aspects of republican motherhood, in
addition to marriage, divorce, reading, and education.
HQ1418 .K47
Laska, Vera, "Remember the Ladies": Outstanding Women of
the American Revolution, Boston: Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, 1976. Biographical
sketches of Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, and Deborah Sampson
Gannett.
E276 .L2
Nagel, Paul C., The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams,
Their Sisters and Daughters, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987. Includes index. Biographical information on two
prominent early American women and their families. Good for the
historical context and status of women in society before and
after the Revolution.
E322.1 .A38 N34
Catt, Carrie Chapman and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman
Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage
Movement, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923.
JK1896 .C3
DuBois, Ellen Carol, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence
of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869,
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. Includes index.
Discusses women's suffrage as a social movement (as opposed to a
political movement) and as part of the history of feminism.
Traces the transformation of the suffrage movement from its
connection to the abolition movement before the Civil War to an
independent movement after the war. Since its publication,
Feminism and Suffrage has provided an important framework
for the history of suffrage within women's history.
HQ1423 .D8
Kraditor, Aileen S., The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage
Movement, 1890-1920, New York: Columbia University Press,
1965. Intellectual history of the women's suffrage movement,
focusing on the National American Women's Suffrage Association
and the Woman's Party. Gives some history of the early suffrage
movement and the transformation to more "conservative"
leadership, the change in the types of women who joined the
movement, and the shifting arguments for the enfranchisement of
women (justice to expediency, equality to difference). Chapters
on religion, the home, immigration, race, labor, the South, and
political parties.
JK1896 .K7
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn
Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage,
New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881-1922, 6 volumes: vol. 1 1848-1861;
vol. 2 1861-1876. vol. 3 1876-1885; vol. 4 1883-1900; volumes 5-6
1900-1920. Volumes 4-6 are not in the National Archives library.
The history of women's suffrage written by the suffragists
themselves.
JK1896 .S8
Bordin, Ruth, Frances Willard: A Biography, Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Biography of the
founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Willard was also connected to the labor movement. Temperance was
only one of the reform activities that Willard and the members of
the WCTU engaged in.
HV5232 .W6 B6
Carroll, Berenice A., Liberating Women's History:
Theoretical and Critical Essays, Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1976.
HQ1121 .L5
Chafe, William Henry, Women and Equality: Changing Patterns
in American Culture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
A short study of the major themes in American women's history
through the mid-20th century. Begins with an overview of American
women's history then moves to a discussion of the relationship
between sex, race and the modern feminist movement (and feminist
historians). Primarily a theoretical work but may be useful for
problematic areas in the history of women.
HQ1410 .C4
Deutrich, Mabel E. and Virginia C. Purdy, eds. Clio was a
Woman: Studies in the History of American Women. National
Archives Conference 16, 1976. Washington: Howard University,
1980. Conference papers. Contains a section on women's history
resources and a chapter on how to research in NARA. Divided by
time period with sections on Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Appendix includes a list of the numbered bulletins of the Women's
Bureau, 1919-1963.
HQ1410 .C6
George, Carol V. R., "Remember the Ladies": New
Perspectives on Women in American History: Essays in Honor of
Nelson Manfred Blake, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 1975. Divided into three sections: feminist thought
1600-1800, domesticity in the nineteenth century, and important
issues in women's history.
HQ1410 .R4
Lerner, Gerda, Teaching Women's History, Washington:
American Historical Association, 1981. Discussion of the field
and its history. Contains important conceptual ideas about
studying women. Primarily focuses on teaching methods but is
useful for themes and problems in women's history.
HQ1181 .U5 L4
Showalter, Elaine, Women's Liberation and Literature,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
HQ1121 .S5
Sicherman, Barbara, Recent United States Scholarship on the
History of Women, Washington: American Historical
Association, 1980.
HQ1181 .U5 R42
Abbott, Edith, Women in Industry: a Study in American
Economic History, New
York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910. The author worked with Hull
House and the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. She was
chief of the Children's Bureau from 1921-1934 and lobbied for the
establishment of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.
In this study, she focuses on the history of working women as
well as contemporary employment in textiles, cigars, printing,
and wages.
HD6095 .A6
Aron, Cindy Sondik, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil
Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America, New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987. Describes the beginning of
middle-class white collar work at the end of the nineteenth
century and the entrance of growing numbers of women in this type
of work. Based on materials in NARA, primarily job applications
to the Department of the Interior and the Department of the
Treasury.
JK691 .A7
Bird, Caroline, Enterprising Women, New York: Norton,
1976. Focuses on women and economics from the Revolution to the
1970s. Each chapter covers the lives of one or more women
including Eliza Pinckney, Abigail Adams, Catherine Beecher,
Dorthea Dix, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Eleanor
Holmes Norton.
HQ1410 .B52
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk, Women of the Depression: Caste and
Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939, College Station: Texas A &
M University Press, 1984. Includes index. Focuses on the lives
of Anglo-, Mexican-, and African-American women during the Great
Depression in San Antonio, Texas. Blackwelder uses the records of
the Works Progress Administration (RG 69) and the records of the
Women's Bureau (RG 86).
HQ1439 .S2 B4
Boris, Eileen and Cynthia R. Daniels, Homework: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home, Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1989. Collection of articles
divided into five sections: historical perspectives, images of
homework: a pictoral essay, the persistence of homework, the new
clerical and professional homework, and the politics of homework.
Some articles use NARA records, including the records of the
Women's
Bureau (RG 86) and the Census Bureau (RG 29).
HD2336 .U5 H66
Foner, Philip Sheldon, Women and the American Labor
Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present, New
York: Free Press Collier Macmillan, 1982. Includes index.
HD6079.2 .U5 F6
Greenwald, Maurine Weiner, Women, War, and Work: The Impact
of World War I on Women Workers in the United States,
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. Includes index. Based on War
Department, Signal Corps, Women's Bureau, and Census Bureau
records. During World War I black and white women moved into
non-traditional jobs and the federal government became more
involved in industry. Greenwald argues that the war reinforced
the gendered organization of work and brought men and women
workers into conflict. Focuses on the development of labor policy
toward women workers, the daily experience of working women, and
specific types of work (streetcar conductors, telephone
operators, and railroad employees).
HD6095 .G7
Harris, Barbara J., Beyond Her Sphere: Women and the
Professions in American History, Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1978. Includes index. Based on a series of lectures given
at Pace University on the history of professional women in
America. Topics include the heritage of European ideology, the
cult of domesticity, nineteenth-century women's activism, the
suffrage movement, women after World War II, and feminism in the
1960s and 1970s.
HQ1410 .H3
Kessler-Harris, Alice, Out to Work: A History of
Wage-Earning Women in the United States, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1982. The history of women workers from
colonial America to the present. Traces the transformation of
women's work from unpaid to wage labor. Important work in the
historiography of women's labor history because of its
concentration on the importance of equality vs. difference.
HD6095 .K4
Murphy, Teresa Ann, Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and
Gender in Early New England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1992. Murphy discusses the role of evangelical reform in
the lives of working women and the early labor movement. She
argues that working-class women, as well as middle-class women,
had an interest in evangelical reform.
HD8083 .A11 M87 1992
Scharf, Lois, To Work and to Wed: Female Employment,
Feminism, and the Great Depression, Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1980. Includes index. Women, the family, and labor in the
1930s. Focuses primarily on the movement of white middle-class
women into the workforce (especially professional employment). In
a chapter titled "The Forgotten Woman," there is some information
on working class women and the New Deal.
HD6095 .S3
Sealander, Judith, As Minority Becomes Majority: Federal
Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force,
1920-1963, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Includes
index. Begins with the founding of the Women's Bureau in 1920 and
focuses on the women who worked for the Bureau. Also discusses
the connections of the Women's
Bureau to progressive women reformers. Ends with the passage of
the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
HD6095 .S4
Weber, Gustavus Adolphus, The Women's Bureau: Its History,
Activities, and Organization, Service Monographs of the
United States Government. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press,
1923. General history published by the government. Helpful for
basic facts to 1923.
HD6095.2 .W4
Weiner, Lynn Y., From Working Girl to Working Mother: The
Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980, Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina, 1985. Includes index.
Focuses on the effects of changing economic and social behavior
on women workers and the ideological debate over women workers.
Traces shift from single women workers in the nineteenth century
to married women and mothers in the twentieth century. Uses
records from the Census Bureau (RG 29).
HD6095 .W39
Hewitt, Nancy A., Women's Activism and Social Change.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. An important work in
the historiography of women's history, Hewitt'swork discusses
three different levels of women's reform work in Rochester, New
York in the antebellum period.
HQ1439 .R62 H48 1984
Lemons, J. Stanley, The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in
the 1920's, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
Lemons argues that women are an important link in the survival of
progressivism in the 1920s and 1930s. Progressivism in the 1920s
manifested itself as social feminism, a term first coined by
William O'Neill. Social feminists were women "who wanted to use
their newly won citizenship to advance their reform efforts."
Discusses the reform activities of these women in the 1920s (the
Children's Bureau, the Women's Bureau, and the Sheppard-Towner
Act) and their conflict with "hardcore" feminists (members of the
Woman's Party who advocated the passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment).
HQ1426 .L45
Hall, Kermit L., Women, the Law, and the Constitution:
Major Historical Interpretations, New York: Garland, 1987.
Collection of articles on women's legal status from colonial
times through the 1920s. Topics include suffrage, protective
legislation, married women's rights, the status of Dakota Indian
women, and prostitution.
KF478 .A5 W6
Harrison, Cynthia Ellen, On Account of Sex: The Politics of
Women's Issues, 1945-1968, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1988. Includes index.
HQ1236.5 .U6 H3
Hartman, Mary S. and Lois W. Banner, Clio's Consciousness
Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women, New York:
Octagon Books, 1976. Collection of articles on
American and European women's history. Topics include sexuality,
health, family, religion, and women's work.
HQ1121 .C66
Lebsock, Suzanne, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and
Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860, New York: Norton,
1984. Includes index. Free white and black women in Virginia.
Argues that women have a different culture/value system than men
in terms of economics, law, and work. Tackles many themes in
women's history with evidence from one city.
HQ1423 .L3
Scott, Anne Firor, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to
Politics, 1830-1930, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1970. Discusses myths of southern womanhood and the changes in
the lives of southern women over a century, including those
changes caused by the Civil War and suffrage.
HQ1418 .S38
Vicinus, Martha, Suffer and Be Still: Women in the
Victorian Age, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972.
Collection of articles focusing primarily on British women with
some comparative discussion of American women. Topics include
representation, sexuality, and work. Last chapter is a
bibliography of sources for studying Victorian women.
HQ1596 .V5
Anderson, Karen, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family
Relations, and the Status of Women during World War II,
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
HQ1420 .A6
Campbell, D'Ann, Women at War with America: Private Lives
in a Patriotic Era, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1984. Includes index. Campbell uses Census Bureau, Women's
Bureau, Army, and Office of War Information records to study the
lives of women as workers, housewives, and volunteers during
World War II.
HQ1420 .C3
Honey, Maureen, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender,
and Propaganda during World War II, Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1984. Includes index.
HQ1420 .H6
Rupp, Leila J., Mobilizing Women for War: German and
American Propaganda, 1939-1945, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1978. Includes index.
D810 .W7 R8
Stephenson, Jill, Women in Nazi Society, New York:
Barnes & Noble Books, 1975. Originally presented as the author's
thesis, Edinburgh University. Includes index. Women in German
society during the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on suffrage,
marriage, family life, employment, education, and professions.
HQ1623 .S7
Wiley, Bell Irvin, Confederate Women, Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1975. Uses the diaries of three southern women
to demonstrate the changes in women's lives and southern society
caused by the Civil War.
E467 .W48
Faragher, John Mack, Women and Men on the Overland
Trail, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979. Includes
index. The experience of the families who emigrated to California
and Oregon by wagon train from 1840-1870. Faragher uses diaries,
journals and memoirs to analyze the emigration and the previous
lifestyle of the midwestern farming families who migrated. He
argues that the segregated work and social life of
nineteenth-century married women continued on the overland
trail.
HQ553 .F3
Luchetti, Cathy and Carol Olwell, Women of the West,
St. George, UT: Antelope Island Press, 1982. Based on census
material and the original accounts of western women. Primarily
individual accounts but the introduction contains some general
information about women in the west. Includes a section on
"minority" women. Two pages of chronology and a bibliography in
the back.
HQ1438 .W45 L8
Time-Life Books and Joan Swallow Reiter, The Women,
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1978. Text and illustrations
present a portrait of the women who helped settle the West.
Includes index.
HQ1418 .T55
Marsh, Margaret S., Anarchist Women, 1870-1920,
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
HX843 .M29
Rossiter, Margaret W., Women Scientists in America :
Struggles and Strategies to 1940, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1982. Includes index. Begins with the founding
of women's colleges in the nineteenth century, with some
information about women and science before the nineteenth
century. Argues that women scientists were deliberately
"camouflaged" in the late nineteenth century with the
professionalization of science. Chapter on government employment
of women scientists. Includes bibliography.
Q130 .R8
Weber, Sandra and the United States National Park Service,
Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New
York, Washington: United States Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, 1985. Special history study.
HQ1438 .N57 W43 or GovDoc I29.2:W 84/2
A librarian can help you find these and other articles relating to archival research on women.
Adams, Margaret O., Electronic Records at the National
Archives: Resources for Women Studies. NWSA Journal: A
Publication of the National Women's Studies Association 2:
2 (Spring 1990): 269-272.
Beattie, Diane L. An Archival User Study: Researchers in
the Field of Women's History. Archivaria (Canada) 29
(Winter 1989-90): 33-50.
Goggin, Jacqueline. The Indirect Approach: A Study of
Scholarly Users of Black and Women's Organizational Records in
the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Midwestern
Archivist 19:2 (Summer 1987): 71-83.
Schultz, Jane E. Archival Research on Women. Public
History News 12:3 (Spring 1992): 12.
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of
Women in America, The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs
of Manuscripts, Books and Pictures, Radcliffe
College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1973. Ten volumes. Reproductions of the card catalogs.
Z7965 .A7
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of
Women in America, The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America: Report. Seven reports
from the 1960s and 1970s. Some details of this very large
collection.
Z6611 .W6 R3
Baumann, Roland M. and the Oberlin College Archives, Guide
to the Women's History Sources in the Oberlin College
Archives. Oberlin, Ohio: Gertrude F. Jacob Archival
Publications Fund, 1990. Oberlin was the first interracial and
coeducational college. The collection contains the records of the
university, college organizations, the Oberlin, Ohio community,
the YWCA, and missionaries. Famous graduates include Lucy Stone,
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and Mary Church Terrell.
Z7964.05 G85
Bishop, Beverly D., Deborah W. Bolas, and the Missouri
Historical Society, In Her Own Write: Women's History
Resources in the Library and Archives of the Missouri Historical
Society, St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1983.
Includes geographical, occupational, and alternative name
indexes. This guide to resources is organized primarily by name.
Collection includes letters from Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone
Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Kate Chopin, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Carrie A. Nation, Sacagawea, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
and Lucy Stone.
Z7961 .I5
Cantrell, Andrea E. and the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville Libraries, Manuscript Resources for Women's
Studies, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Libraries,
1989. Special collections of the University of Arkansas
Libraries. Includes index.
HQ1438 .A8 C36
Chmielewski, Wendy E. and the Swarthmore College Peace
Collection, Guide to Sources on Women in the Swarthmore
College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, PA: W.E. Chmielewski,
1988. Includes index. Organized into major document groups,
minor collections, and materials from other countries (organized
by country and subject). Major document groups are listed
alphabetically and include the papers of Jane Addams and the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
HQ1154 .C47
Dean, Joanna and David Fraser, and the National Archives of
Canada, Women's Archives Guide: Manuscript Sources for the
History of Women, Ottawa, Ontario: National Archives of
Canada, 1991. English and French. Includes index. The papers in
the National Archives of Canada, organized alphabetically.
Z7964 .C36 D4
Dryden, Jean E. and the Provincial Archives of Alberta,
Some Sources for Women's History at the Provincial Archives of
Alberta, Edmonton: Alberta Culture, Historical Resources
Division, 1980. Includes index. Organized into three sections:
personal and family papers, organizations, and churches.
HQ1453 .D79 1988
Emory University. General Libraries. Special Collections
Department, Manuscript Sources for Women's History: A
Descriptive List of Holdings in the Special Collections
Department, Atlanta, GA: The Library, 1987. Includes index.
Collections listed alphabetically. Includes the papers of
Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, and the Georgia WCTU.
Z6611 .W6 E46 1987
General Federation of Women's Clubs, Cynthia N. Swanson, and
Lisa C. Mangiafico, Guide to the Archives of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, Washington: The Federation,
1992. The GFWC was founded in 1890. Collection includes records
of the Board of Directors, the Presidents, general records of the
organization, local clubs, and the founding documents.
Z6611 .W6 G45
Gentzler, Lynn Wolf and the University of Missouri Western
Historical Manuscript Collection, Guide to Women's
Collections, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, State
Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO: Western
Historical Manuscript Collection, 1989. Contains primarily
records of Missouri women and organizations. Includes: ERA papers
1972-1984, papers of MO. Association of Colored Women's Clubs
1932-86, MO. Equal Rights Amendment Coalition, MO WCTU, and the
St. Louis YWCA 1905-1972.
Z6611 .W6 G8
Georgia Dept. of Archives and History, Darlene R. Roth,
Virginia Shadron, C. Jeanme Thomas, and Richard B. Bell,
Women's Records, A Preliminary Guide, Atlanta, GA: Dept.
of Archives and History, a division of the Office of the
Secretary of State, 1978. Includes index. Organized into three
sections: individuals, families, and organizations.
Z7964 .U49 G46 1978
A Guide to the Data Resources of the Henry A. Murray
Research Center of Radcliffe College: A Center for the Study of
Lives. Cambridge, MA: Radcliffe College, 1985.
Social science archive on women's lives and social change.
Z7961 .R33 1979
Harvard University, Radcliffe College, and Elizabeth E. Sandager, A Guide to African-American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University and Radcliffe College, 1992. Enormous collection listed alphabetically with an alphabetical index. Papers (many on microfilm) are included:
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching,
Mary McLeod Bethune, Black Women Oral History Project, Lydia
Maria Child, SNCC, SDS, Mary Church Terrell.
Z6611 .B63 H37
Hewitt, Nancy, A. Records of the American Women's
Hospitals, 1917-1982: An Inventory to the American Women's
Hospitals Records in the Archives and Special Collections on
Women in Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1987.
Z6611 .M5 M43
Hildenbrand, Suzanne, Women's Collections: Libraries,
Archives, and Consciousness, New York: Haworth Press, 1986.
Organized by collection and access. Includes Library of Congress,
New York Public Library, Bethune Museum, Smith College,
Schlesinger Library
at Radcliffe, Texas Women's University Library, and the
University of Waterloo Library. Hildenbrand also includes
references on "minority" women.
Z688 .W65 W64
Hinding, Andrea and Rosemary Richardson, Archival and
Manuscript Resources for the Study of Women's History: A
Beginning. From a meeting of the Organization of American
Historians, April 1972. Organized by state and library or
archive. Contains sections on West Coast and Southern
archives.
Z7965 .A7 1972BR
Hinding, Andrea and Ames S. Bower, Women's History Sources:
A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United
States, New York: Bowker, 1979. Collections are
alphabetically listed by state, city and collection. Also lists
whether or not collection is open, has a guide, the number of
items in the collection, the dates covered by the collection,
type of material, and a brief description of the material. There
is a name, subject, and geographic index.
REF Z7964 .U49 W64
L'Esperance, Jeanne, The Widening Sphere: Women in Canada,
1870-1940, Canada: Public Archives, National Library of
Canada, 1982. English and French. Catalog of an
exhibition held Sept. 27, 1982-Jan. 4, 1983. Organized
alphabetically with index. Papers in the National Archives of
Canada.
Z7964 .C36 L47
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, The Blackwell
Family, Carrie Chapman Catt, and the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, Washington: Library of Congress, 1975.
Registers of papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of
Congress. Detailed description of the papers with biographical
information.
GovDoc LC 4.2:B56
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, The Blackwell
Family, Carrie Chapman Catt, and the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, Revised Edition, Washington: Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, 1985. Registers of papers in the
Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Includes
index.
GovDoc LC 4.10:44
Medical College of Pennsylvania Archives and Special
Collections on Women in Medicine and Erika Thickman Miller,
Guide to Collections in the Archives and Special Collections
on Women in Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia: The College, 1987. Includes index. Divided into
records of the medical college since 1850, manuscripts of
individual women physicians, organizations, hospitals, and
additional holdings-artificially created.
Z6611 .M5 .M43
Mitterling, Doris and John A. Brennan, A Guide to the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers,
Boulder: Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, Western
Historical Collections, 1982. Includes index. Collection acquired
from the organizations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
JK1965 .W46 M57 1982
Morgan, Jennifer and Virginia Daley, Retrieving
African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to
Sources in the Perkins Library Manuscript Department, Durham,
NC: Duke University, 1989. Includes index. Organized by African-
American perspective, Anglo-American perspective, organizational
records, lists and ledgers, and images.
Z6611 .B63 M37
National Archives for Black Women's History and the National
Council of Negro Women, The National Archives for Black
Women's History, Washington: The Archives, 1980. The
archives was founded by the National Council of Negro Women. This
leaflet describes the resources available there.
339 (Call number is being changed)
New York State Archives, Selected Records in the State
Archives Relating to Women: A Descriptive List, Albany:
Office of Cultural Education, New York State Education Dept.,
1985. Organized by executive, legislative and judicial branches
of government. Detailed.
Z7964 .N7 N49 1985
Radcliffe College Women's Archives, The Women's Archives,
Radcliffe College: Report. Fourteen reports from 1955 to
1965. Some detail of what is in the collection.
HQ1402 F00
Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and Archives,
A Guide to the Women's History Archives at Rutgers, New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Libraries, 1990. Especially
good for New Jersey history.
Z7964 .U5 R88
Seeley, Charlotte Palmer, Virginia C. Purdy, and Robert
Gruber. American Women and the U.S. Armed Forces: A Guide to
the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archive Relating
to American Women. Washington: National Archives, 1992.
REF U21.75 S44
Sophia Smith Collection, Catalogs of the Sophia Smith
Collection, Women's History Archive, Smith College,
Northampton, MA. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1975. Seven volumes.
Reproduction of the card catalogs.
Z7965 .S65
Smith College Library Friends, The Sophia Smith Collection:
Materials Relating to the History and Activities of Women.
First supplement, 1959-60, Northampton, MA: Smith College,
1960.
Z7965 .S65 Suppl.1
Sophia Smith Collection, Catalog of the Sophia Smith
Collection, Women's History Archive, Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts, Northampton, MA: Smith College, 1976. Detailed
list of holdings. Very large collection.
190 (Call number is being changed)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, James Philip Danky, and
Eleanor McKay, Women's History: Resources at the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison: The Society,
1976. Includes index. Two sections: the library and archives and
manuscripts. Written in prose, no detailed list of holdings.
190 (Call number is being changed)
Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Margaret Granville Mair, The
Papers of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, CT: Stowe-Day
Foundation, 1977. A bibliography of the papers in the Stowe-Day
Memorial Library. Contains chronology, alphabetical list of
recipients, and correspondence.
Z6616 .769 S7 1977
Thomas, Evangeline, Joyce L. White, and Lois Wachtel, Women
Religious History Sources: A Guide to Repositories in the United
States, New York: R.R. Bowker, 1983. Includes index. Focuses
on Catholic, Orthodox, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and
Mennonite religions. Divided into four main sections. The first
part lists collections by state and religious organization. The
second part is a bibliography, organized alphabetically by key
words. The third section contains founding dates of organizations
and the final section is a biographical register.
REF Z7839 .W6
Thomas, Roy R., the Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
and the Organization of American Historians, Women in American
History, 1896-1920: Their Manuscripts in the Library of Congress
Workshop in Archival and Manuscript Sources for the Study of
Women's History, Bowie, MD: Bowie State College, 1972.
Organized alphabetically and by type of material.
Z7964 .U49 T47
Thompson, Catherine E. and the North Carolina Division of
Archives and History, A Selective Guide to Women-Related
Records in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC:
Division of Archives and History, 1977. Includes index. Organized
into the following categories: organizations, military
collections, miscellaneous, photographs, private collections
named for women, and iconographic records.
Z764 .U49 T48
Utah State Historical Society Library and Linda Thatcher,
Guide to the Women's History Holdings at the Utah State
Historical Society Library, Salt Lake City, UT: The Library,
1985. Listed alphabetically, the collection is primarily
personal accounts and diaries of individuals. No index.
Z7964 .U5 U88 1985
Women and Texas History: An Archival Bibliography,
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990. Organized by
library and then alphabetically. Also includes a list of
addresses and phone numbers for archives in Texas.
Z7964.05 T4 W65 1990
York, Maurice C. and J.Y. Joyner Library East Carolina
Manuscript Collection, A Guide to Women's History Resources in
the East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Greenville, NC: East
Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East
Carolina University, 1982. Includes index. Collections first
listed alphabetically and then by type of material (manuscript,
oral history, or microfilm).
Z7964 .N8 Y6 1982
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National
Board, Louisa Bowen, and Rae Perry, Inventory to the Records
Files Collection of the National Board of the Young Women's
Christian Associations, New York: Archives Data Center,
National Board, YWCA, 1978. Errata sheet included. Includes
index.
Z5814 .R Y6 1978
