Women's History

To create a more equitable America, the Smithsonian is researching, disseminating, and amplifying the histories of American women through its American Women’s History Initiative in preparation for the future Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.

A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and part of World History Matters, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s there was a perceived problem of 'superfluous' unmarried women. Several organisations were created to encourage educated middle-class women to emigrate.

Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

An internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. It was founded in 1942 to be the library's distinctive contribution to the college's mission of educating women.

The diaries in this digital collection were written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States.

Primary source documents available via the Post Family Papers Project at the University of Rochester.

Publication of this first release of Queen Victoria's Journals makes available online digital images of every page in the entire sequence of Queen Victoria's diaries, and will provide full transcriptions and keyword searching of the journal entries.

Stories from the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project: Korea and Vietnam; Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

This site will allow you to explore the contours of Martha Washington’s life while also providing you with a window on women’s lives during the 18th century.

This website, produced by the Martha's Vineyard Museum, tells the story of Laura Jernegan and the journal she kept on her voyage. It also tells the adventurous history of whaling.