HST 327: Women in US History 1600-1880 (Poly campus online)
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Suggested Databases and Sites for Primary Sources
Tip: Set date filters to 1500-1699 for primary sources closer to the woman's lifetime.
Pocahontas (Also known as: Matoaka; Amonute; Rebecca)
- Primary Sources: American Indian History; Digital Public Library of America; Early English Books Online
Anne Bradstreet
- Primary Sources: America's Historical Imprints; Digital Public Library of America; Early English Books Online
Tituba (Another suggested search phrase "Salem Witch Trials")
- Primary Sources: America's Historical Imprints; Early English Books Online; World Trials Library: Tituba; Salem Witch Trials; Cornell University Witchcraft Collection
Mary Rowlandson
Martha Ballard
- Primary Sources: Martha Ballard's Diary Online; A Midwife's Tale (Book)
Abigail Adams
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Massachusetts Historical Society
Martha Washington
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; Worthy Partner (Book)
Deborah Sampson Gannett
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; Massachusetts Historical Society
Judith Sargent Murray (Also try: "Judith Sargent"; "Judith Murray")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; 1798 Letter to George Washington; On the Equality of the Sexes
- Secondary Sources: The Sargent House Museum
Mercy Otis Warren
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; 1776 Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Graeme Park Sources
Sarah Kemble Knight
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; The private journal of a journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney
Phillis Wheatley
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp (Also try: "Sarah Wentworth"; "Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Mary Jemison (Also known as: Deh-he-wä-mis)
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Deh-he-wa-mis
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Emily Dickinson
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Sarah Winnemucca
- Primary Sources: Early American Newspapers: American Indian History
Helen Hunt Jackson
- Primary Sources: Early American Newspapers; Nineteenth Century Collections
Lucretia Mott
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Elizabeth Blackwell
- Primary Sources: Early American Newspapers; Nineteenth Century Collections
Lucy Stone
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Lydia Maria Child
- Primary Sources: Black Studies Center; Periodicals Archive Online
Clara Barton
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Sarah Josepha Hale
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Primary Sources: Black Studies Center; Periodicals Archive Online
Mary Boykin Chesnut
- Primary Sources: Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements
Louisa May Alcott
- Primary Sources: Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Dorothea Dix
- Primary Sources: Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements
Belle Boyd
- Primary Sources: Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements
Mary Todd Lincoln
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Nineteenth Century Collections
M. Carey Thomas (Also try: "Martha Carey Thomas")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Nineteenth Century Collections
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (Also try: "Victoria Woodhull"; "Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Julia Ward Howe
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Sarah Grimké
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Angelina Grimké (Also known as: Angelina Grimké Ward)
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Margaret Fuller (Also known as: Margaret Fuller Ossoli)
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Susan B. Anthony
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Sojourner Truth
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Black Studies Center; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Harriet Tubman
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Black Studies Center; Nineteenth Century Collections
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Also try: "Frances Ellen Watkins"; "Frances Watkins Harper"; "Frances Ellen Harper")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Black Studies Center; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Harriet Hanson Robinson (Also try: "Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson"; "Harriet Hanson")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Nineteenth Century Collections
Susan Fenimore Cooper
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Nineteenth Century Collections
Frances "Fanny" Kemble (Also try: "Fanny Kemble")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Phoebe Cary
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Nineteenth Century Collections
Mary Hayden Green Pike (Also try: "Mary Hayden Green")
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Nineteenth Century Collections
Sarah Helen Whitman
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Periodicals Archive Online; Women and Social Movements; Nineteenth Century Collections
Harriet E. Wilson
- Primary Sources: Digital Public Library of America; Nineteenth Century Collections
Suggested Databases for Secondary Sources
These databases are highly recommended for finding peer-reviewed articles and electronic books related to the historical women listed on this page.
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Academic Search Ultimate
Access to popular press magazines and peer-reviewed scholarly journals across various academic disciplines, including open-access journals and historic Associated Press videos.
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America: History and Life with Full Text
Access to journals and resources on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, including advanced time-period search and open access journal indexing.
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American Indian History
American Indian History Online contains information from reference books on various topics and individuals as well as primary sources such as photographs, government documents, treaties, court cases, and maps. Entries are linked in helpful ways by tags and can be narrowed by entry type.
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Black Studies Center
A cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies, featuring scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspapers, reference books, and more for research and teaching.
Coverage: 1827 +
Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBP), Black Literature Index, and Proquest Historical Newspapers: The Black Newspapers Collection (including the Chicago Defender).
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory providing full-text articles from scholarly and scientific journals of various subjects and languages.
Alternate titles: DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals
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JSTOR
Access millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes AI assistant: JSTOR's interactive research tool.
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PAO- Periodicals Archive OnlineCoverage: 1770-1995
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
It contains an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. ASU access includes collection 1-7.Alternate titles: Periodicals Archive Online -
Project MUSE Journals and Books
A collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and e-books from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers, and scholarly societies, offering full-text content in literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Explores the history of women in social movements through primary sources, scholarly essays, and curated collections from colonial times to the modern era in the United States.