Why Were Illinois Indian Women Attracted to Catholicism, 1665-1750?

• Eileen Dugan
  
  
• Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois
  
  
• Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois
  
  
• University of Michigan Press
  
  
• Randolph County Courthouse, Chester, Illinois
  
  
• Peabody Museum, Harvard University

From Wollstonecraft to Mill: What British and European Ideas and Social Movements Influenced the Emergence of Feminism in the Atlantic World, 1792-1869?

• Wisconsin Historical Society

• Stanford University Press

• The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University

• Religious Society of Friends, London

• American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia

• Joseph W. Reed

• Karen M. Offen

• Susan Groag Bell

• Bibliothèque Nationale de France, no. 78A 40464
  

How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Force New Forms of Women's Activism during the American Revolution?

• New-York Historical Society

Joseph Reed Papers

• North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

• Haverford College Library

Edward Wanton Smith Collection

• Library of Congress

Prints and Photographs Division
Manuscript Division
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Wayne Papers
Kane Family Letters
Washington Manuscripts
Letters and Diaries to Rebecca Shoemaker and her daughters Anna and Margaret Rawle, 1780-1786

How Did Susanna Rowson and Other Reformers Promote Higher Education as an Antidote to Women's Sexual Vulnerability, 1780-1820?

• The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Mount Vernon, Virginia
• Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

How Did the Removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia Shape Women's Activism in the North, 1817-1838?

• University of Oklahoma Press

• Frank J. Boudinot

• Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• Philip Schaff Library, Lancaster Theological Seminary

• Yale University Library

     Vaill Manuscripts, Indian Letters

• Mrs. N. B. Moore

• Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio

• Houghton Library, Harvard University

     American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Papers

• National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison

• Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford

How Did White Women Reformers with the Southern Utes Respond to Gendered Assimilationist Indian Policies?

• The Newberry Library, Chicago

John Howard Payne Papers

• University of Colorado Library, Boulder

Colorado WCTU collection

• Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs
• National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

  Records of the U.S. Senate

• National Archives and Records Administration, Rocky Mountain Region, Denver, Colo.

  Records of the Consolidated Ute Administration

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?

• William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
• Oberlin College Archives
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

How Did Local Antislavery Women Form National Networks in the Antebellum United States?

•  Kent State University Libraries and Media Services, Kent, Ohio

•  Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

•  Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pennsylvania

•  Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

•  The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•  The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•  The Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

•  The Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island

•  Trustees of the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts

How Did Sarah Bagley Contribute to the Ten-Hour Movement in Lowell and How Did Her Labor Activism Flow into Other Reform Movements, 1836-1870?

• Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Mass.
  
  
• Thomas Dublin
  
  
• American Museum of Textile History, Lowell, Mass.
  
  
• Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass.

  R. G. Dun & Co. Collection

• Lowell Historical Society, Lowell, Mass.
  
  
• Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Mass.
  
  
• John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
  
  
• National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Oh.

  Lilly Martin Spencer Family Papers

How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery?

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

  Garrison Family Papers

• Special Collections, Syracuse University

  Osborne Family Papers

• New York State Historical Association

• James D. Livingston

What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to Antebellum Northern Women?

• No copyrighted material employed

How Did Diverse Activists Shape the Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement?

• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

How Did Lucretia Mott's Activism between 1840 and 1860 Combine her Commitments to Antislavery and Women's Rights?

• Library of Congress

  Mott Collection
  Blackwell Family Papers

• Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College

  Mott Collection

• Nantucket (Mass.) Historical Society

  Mott Family Papers

• Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

  Sydney Howard Gay Papers

• Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

  Garrison Family Papers

Were the Social Practices Associated with Bible Communism Liberating or Oppressive for the Women of the Oneida Community?

• Oneida Community Collection, Syracuse University Library Special Collections

• Oneida Community Mansion House

• Syracuse University Press

• Jane K. Rich

How do Contemporary Newspaper Accounts of the 1850 Worcester Woman's Rights Convention Enhance Our Understanding of the Issues Debated at That Meeting?

• Library of Congress

Why Did Some Men Support the Women's Rights Movement in the 1850s, and How Did Their Ideas Compare to those of Women in the Movement?

• Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves during and after the Civil War and What Obstacles Did They Face?

• Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, N.Y.

  Josephine White Griffing papers

• Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.

• Irving B. Holley

• National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, RG 105
  Records of the House of Representatives, RG 233

• New England Quarterly, for permission to reprint I. B. Holley, Jr., "Schooling Freedmen's Children," New England Quarterly, 74:3 (September 2001): 478-94.

How Did Women Participate in the Underground Railroad?

• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

• New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y.

• Cayuga Historical Society, Auburn, N.Y.

• Cayuga Museum, Aurora, N.Y.

Why Did Colorado Suffragists Succeed in Winning the Right to Vote in 1893 and Not in 1877?

• The Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado

  Western History Collection

How Did the Reform Agenda of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union Change, 1878-1917?

• Photographs from Bessie Lathe Scovell, compiler, A Brief History of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (St. Paul, 1939). Courtesy, Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Wannaska, Minnesota

How Did Clara Foltz's Experiences as a Woman Lawyer and Suffragist Influence Her Conception of a Public Defender for Those Accused of Crime, 1878-1913?

• American Criminal Law Review
  
  
• Barbara Allen Babcock
  
  
• Regional History Collection, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California

Why Did African-American Women Join the Woman's Christian Temperance Union between 1880 and 1900?

• The photograph of Catherine Impey appears courtesy of Vron Ware, New Haven, Conn.

• The photograph of Lucy Thurman appears courtesy of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington, D.C.

• The photograph of Amanda Berry Smith appears courtesy of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

• The photograph of the British Temperance Flyer appears courtesy of Olwen Niessen of Waterloo, Ontario

• Library of Congress

  Frederick Douglass Papers

• Frances E. Willard Memorial Library, Evanston, Ill.

• Indiana University Press

• Woman's Christian Temperance Union

How Did a Multi-Racial Movement Develop in the YWCA in Baltimore, 1883-1926?

• Adrienne Lash Jones
• YWCA of the Greater Baltimore Area, Inc

How Did Gender and Class Shape the Age of Consent Campaign Within the Social Purity Movement, 1886-1914?

• National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  Records of the House of Representatives

How Did International Women's Day Begin, 1886-1920?

• Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
• Socialist Party USA

How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?

• Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, Georgia

• Southern Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

• Tampa Tribune Archives

How Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893?

• No copyrighted material employed

How Did Florence Kelley's Campaign against Sweatshops in Chicago in the 1890s Expand Government Responsibility for Industrial Working Conditions?

• Illinois State Archives

• Library of Congress

  Prints and Photographs Division

• University of Illinois at Chicago, Special Collections, University Library

  Jane Addams Memorial Collection

What Gender Perspectives Shaped the Emergence of the National Association of Colored Women, 1895-1920?

• Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, Georgia

• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  Mary Church Terrell Papers

How Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward Woman Suffrage Change between 1900 and 1915?

• Library of Congress

  Booker T. Washington Papers
  Susan B. Anthony Papers

• W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois

How Did Local Branches of the American Association of University Women Contribute to Their Communities, 1900-1940?

• Southern N.Y. Branch of the American Association of University Women

• Special Collections, Bartle Library, State University of New York at Binghamton

A World of Difference: Portland Women of the YWCA, 1901-2000

• YWCA of the USA

• YWCA of Greater Portland, Oregon

• Oregon Historical Society

• The Oregonian

• Oregon State Library

How Did Settlement Workers at Greenwich House Promote the Arts as Integral to a Shared Social Life?

• Tamiment Library, New York University, New York, New York
  

Greenwich House Collection
Greenwich House Papers

How Did Iowa Women Activists Lobby for the Passage of the Juvenile Court Law, 1904?

• State Historical Society of Iowa

How Did Kate Richards O'Hare's Conviction and Incarceration for Sedition during World War I Change Her Activism?

• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

• Missouri Historical Society

How Was the Relationship between Workers and Allies Shaped by the Perceived Threat of Socialism in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910?

• University of Florida, Smathers Libraries

  Margaret Dreier Robins Papers

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

  Mary van Kleeck Papers

How Did Cross-Class Alliances Shape the 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike?

• Philoine Fried

• Chicago Historical Society

  Chicago Federation of Labor Records

• Kheel Documentation Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  Wertheimer Collection
  UNITE HERE Archives

• UNITE HERE, New York, N.Y.

• Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Illinois at Chicago

  Jane Addams Memorial Collection

• Special Collections, University of Florida

  Margaret Dreier Robins Papers

The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?

• American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass.

• Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

• Tamiment Institute Library, New York University

  Rose Schneiderman Collection

• George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, Maryland

  Schnapper Collection

• Wellesley College Archives

• Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

• Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

  Lillian Wald Papers

How Did Belle La Follette Oppose Racial Segregation in Washington, D.C., 1913-1914?

• Wisconsin Historical Society
• Library of Congress 

     Woodrow Wilson Papers

• Houghton Library, Harvard University
• Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
  

How Did the National Woman's Party Fund Its Activities, 1913-1940?

• Historic National Woman's Party, Sewall-Belmont House, Washington, D.C.
• Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

How Did Women Activists Promote Peace in Their 1915 Tour of Warring European Capitals?

• Swarthmore College Peace Collection

  The Jane Adams Papers
  Papers of Emily Greene Balch
  Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

• Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries

  WILPF Collection

• The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

  Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection

How Did Animosity Between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett Shape the Movement to Legalize Birth Control?

• Alexander Sanger

• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

• Marie Stopes International, London

Why Did the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Campaign against Chemical Warfare, 1915-1930?

• Swarthmore College Peace Collection

  Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

• Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries

  WILPF Collection

Why Did Mary Ware Dennett's Congressional Lobbying Efforts Fail to Eliminate Contraception from the Obscenity Laws?

• Alexander Sanger

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe University, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

• The Nation

• New York University

  Margaret Sanger Papers

What Lobbying Tactics Did Suffragists Use to Obtain Congressional Approval of a Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1917-1920?

• Library of Congress

  Papers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
  Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

• Iowa State University Library/University Archives

• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

  Mary Garrett Hay Papers (Woman's Rights Collection)

What Infant and Maternal Health Services Did Middle-Class Clubwomen Provide for Immigrant Women and Children in New York City, 1917-1920?

• Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

  Mary Garrett Hay Scrapbook

• Archives and Special Collections, Hunter College, New York

WCCNY Papers

How Did Texas Women Win Partial Suffrage in a One-Party Southern State in 1918?

• Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

  M.M. Crane Papers

  Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker Papers

  Texas War Records, World War I Collection

• Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

  Minnie Fisher Cunningham Papers

How Did Black Women in the NAACP Promote the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923?

• Library of Congress

  NAACP Papers

How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924?

• National Woman's Party
  (For additional information on the National Woman's Party, you may contact NWP President, Dorothy Ruth Ferrell, at 202-546-1210.)
• Library of Congress

Mary Church Terrell Collection
National Woman's Party Papers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers

How Did the Republican Party Respond to Woman Suffragists' Entry into Electoral Politics, 1919-1926?

• Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester Library

• The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

  Mary Garrett Hay Scrapbook

Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s: How Was the Debate Shaped by the Expansion of the American Military?

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

  Bailie Papers

• Swarthmore College Peace Collection

  Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  Hannah Clothier Hull Papers
  Jane Addams Papers

Who Won the Debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s?

• Katha Pollitt

• National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Behring Center

• Library of Congress

• The Nation

How Did Women Peace Activists Respond to "Red Scare" Attacks during the 1920s?

• Rockford College, Archives Room, Howard Colman Library, Rockford, IL

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

  Bailie Papers

• Swarthmore College Peace Collection

  Hannah Clothier Hull Papers
  Jane Addams Papers

• The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Florence Kelley Papers

What Perspectives Did African American Advocates Bring to the Birth Control Movement and How Did Those Perspectives Shape the History of the Harlem Branch Birth Control Clinic?

• Alexander Sanger

• New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.

  Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy

• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Margaret Sanger Papers

• Sophia Smith Collection, Northampton, Mass.

Margaret Sanger Papers

• New York Amsterdam News

How Did Mexican Working Women Assert Their Labor and Constitutional Rights in the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike?

• The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas

• Special Collections, University of Texas at San Antonio Library

• Texas Labor Archives, Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington

• People's History of Texas

• UT Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

• The People's Weekly World

• San Antonio Express-News

How Did the March on Washington Movement's Critique of American Democracy in the 1940s Awaken African American Women to the Problem of Jane Crow?

• A. Philip Randolph Institute, Washington, D.C.



• Chicago Defender, Chicago, Illinois



• Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency for Estate of Pauli Murray



• Dorothy Height



• George Washington Law Review



• Tamiment Library, New York University

Why Did the Iowa League of Women Voters Oppose the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1940s and 1950s?

• Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries

How Did Suburban Development and Domesticity Shape Women's Activism in Queens, New York, 1945-1968?

• Bayside Times
  
  Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library
  
  Betty Friedan
  
  Harper's Magazine
  
  New York City Municipal Archives
  
  Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
  
  
• Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

How and Why Was Feminist Legal Strategy Transformed, 1960-1973?

• Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency for the Estate of Pauli Murray

• George Washington Law Review

• National Woman's Party, Washington, D.C.

• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

How Did Working-Class Feminists Meet the Challenges of Working across Differences?
The National Congress of Neighborhood Women, 1974-2006

• Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

  National Congress of Neighborhood Women Records, 1974-1999

• Janice Peterson

• Christine Noschese

• Linsy Van Gelder

• Joyce Maynard and Rona Maynard

• Rosemary Jackson

• Sally Martino Fisher

• Ethel Velez

• Martha Ackelsberg

• Janie Eisenberg

• Tamar Carroll

How Did State Commissions on the Status of Women Overcome Historic Antagonisms between Equal Rights and Labor Feminists to Create a New Feminist Mainstream, 1963-1973?

• American Association of University Women, Washington, D.C.

  National Woman's Party, Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Washington, D.C.

  Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul

Viola Hymes Papers

• Ohio Historical Society, Columbus

Records of the Ohio Commission on the Status of Women

• Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln

Records of the Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women

• Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison

Records of the Wisconsin Commission on the Status of Women

• Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier

Records of the Vermont Commission on the Status of Women

• Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis

  Records of the Indiana Commission on the Status of Women

How Did Diverse Activists in the Second Wave of the Women's Movement Shape Emerging Public Policy on Sexual Harassment?

• Rochelle Lefkowitz

  Karen Lindsay

  Anne Dockery

  Redbook

  Karen Sauvigné

  Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University

• Yale University Press

How Did National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 Shape a Feminist Agenda for the Future?

• Sarah Harder
  
  Mal Johnson
  
  National Women's Conference Committee
  
  

• Journal of World History, University of Hawaii Press

How Did Iowa Coalitions Campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980 and 1992?

• Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries

How Did Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City Forge a Successful Class-Based Coalition during the 1982 Contract Dispute?

• UNITE Local 23-25
• Cornell University Press

How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art World Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?

• The Guerrilla Girls

How Do Social Movements Shape Civil Rights Legislation for Women? The 1994 Violence Against Women Act

• Southern California Law Review
• Harvard Law Review

 

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