Accounts
History 386 Women in the United States
Course Specific Resources
Michelle Kuhl/Fall 2017
Wisconsin and Minnesota Suffrage Research
On-line Biographical Sources:
Wisconsin Historical Newspapers: NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Digital MN Newspapers: http://www.mnhs.org/newspapers
Ancestry.com (for census and other genealogical information): Ancestry.com
Find a Grave for gravestone (and other) information : http://www.findagrave.com/
Wisconsin Historical Society Genealogical Index (worth a shot) : http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1220
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922-America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Books
The History of Woman Suffrage (Volume 6?) by January 1, 1920
National American Woman Suffrage Association
https://books.google.com/books?id=X09RAQAAMAAJ
Pro-tip: Search for names. Also Minnesota starts on page 317, Wisconsin on page 699.
Recommended Article Databases
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, with indexing for 1,700 journals dating back to 1910.
Includes over 255,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
Humanities International Complete
Provides full text to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world including full text for more than 1,200 journals.
Recommended Book Catalogs
A mega-library catalog containing more than 42 million records contributed by 15,000 libraries around the world.
Newspapers
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Gale's Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers captures a variety of newspaper resources, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Historical New York Times (1851 - 2012)
The New York Times (1851-2012) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922
America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
Provides access to millions of newspaper pages from the United States and other countries, ranging from the 1700s to the present.
Background Resources
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Primary Sources Collections
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
The Gerritsen Collection is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history, spanning more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages in full image.
Accessible Archives makes available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only in microformat, hard copy form or as images only.
Provides an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera.