Women’s and Gender Studies Archives and Databases

  • Doctor or Doctress?: “Primary sources, such as original letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings, help create a view of the past far richer than textbooks do. Doctor or Doctress? was created in order to make primary sources accessible to high school students and teachers. The stories featured on Doctor or Doctress? make history more approachable by guiding students in interpreting and understanding these materials.”
  • TWU Woman’s Collection: “The Gateway to Women’s History is an online site providing electronic access to primary source materials from the Woman’s Collection at Texas Woman’s University. Visitors can access photographs, documents, pamphlets, menus, programs, catalogs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, negatives, artifacts, clothing, textiles, and descriptive records of all our manuscript collections. Rare books, ephemera, and memorabilia are also available for your viewing.”
  • Women Working, 1800-1930: “The collection is an exploration of women’s impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.”