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A look at women's work, from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution.

This site includes original sources on the fire held at the ILR School's Kheel Center, an archive of historical material on labor and industrial relations.

A resource for students, teachers, and all interested people who want to know more about the history of women in New Jersey.

51 historic photographs of the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.

Intriguing story of the escape of Jane Johnson, slave of Col. John H. Wheeler of North Carolina.

This collection is comprised of selected folders from the larger Ada James Papers (Wis Mss OP) housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Ada James (1876-1952) was a leading social reformer, humanitarian, and pacifist from Richland Center,…

The Emma Goldman Papers is part of a national initiative to retrieve the papers of individuals whose life work has had a lasting impact on the course of American history. Since 1980, the Emma Goldman Papers Project at UCB has collected, organized,…

Bibliography of gender in the US West

This exhibit features societal responses to women’s deviance and the stories of five women, both villains and victims, who treaded on the margins of morality and challenged notions of appropriate moral behavior for women.

These portraits, published between 1771 and 1859, appear in works as varied as almanacs, journals of phrenology, and ethnographic histories. Whether the publications were intended to educate or entertain, the portraits today provide us with a lens…