Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Here you can browse this diverse database's primary-source collections by subject — photos, letters, diaries, and other artifacts that document the history of U.S. women from the 1730s to the late 20th century.

From the Library of Congress's National Digital Library, these collections feature historical photos, maps, documents, letters, speeches, recordings, videos, prints, and more.

Maps, court records (including handwritten facsimiles), personal letters, biographies, and other primary and secondary documents from the 1690s.

Images from the Library of Congress (see American Memory) that document women's struggle for the vote.

The eugenics movement of the early 20th century was, quite literally, an effort to breed better human beings. Eugenicists encouraged the reproduction of people with "good" genes. They lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered genetically unfit. This site presents reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were once considered scientific facts—now discredited.

Online archival resources (writings, plays, images, organization minutes) focus on the radical origins of the women's movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Click here to go to Lindell Library's History research guide.