American Memory: Women's History

Dublin Core

Title

American Memory: Women's History

Publisher

Library of Congress

Description

Five digital collections from the Library of Congress relating to American women's history. Artifacts date from the seventeenth century though the twenty-first century and cover subjects such as the American Revolutionary War and the women's suffrage movement. Collections can be browsed individually or searched together by keyword.

Subject

Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Margaret Mead
Mary Todd Lincoln
Eleanor Roosevelt
Helen Keller
Sigmund Freud
Alice Blackwell
Julia Ward Howe
Lucy Stone
Mary Livermore
Elizabeth Smith Miller
American Revolutionary War
American Civil War
Abolition Movement
Industrial Revolution
Women's Suffrage Movement
World War I
World War II
Femininity
Womanhood
Women
Femininities
Heterosexuality
heterosexual
Race
Ethnicity
ethnic
racism
colonialism
orientalism
cultural difference
Religion
religious
spirituality
Children
Adolescence
Teens
Dating
Courtship
date
Marriage
married
marriage guides
Wedding
Commitment ceremony
Criminalization
prosecution
arrests
laws
Prostitution
Sex work
sex slavery
sex trafficking
Health
Disease
addiction
recovery
Reproduction
conception
pregnancy
childbirth
Contraception
Birth Control
sterilization
Sex education
sex guides

Date

Colonial America
Revolutionary Era
New Republic
Early 19th Century
Mid-19th Century
Late 19th Century
Gilded Age
Turn-of-the-20th Century
Early 20th Century
1910s
1920s
Jazz Age
1930s
Great Depression
1940s
WWII
1950s
Postwar
Baby Boom
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Mid-20th Century
Late 20th Century

Type

Letters
Photographs
Advertising
Diary
Journal
Memoir
Autobiography
Flyer
Postcard
Pamphlet
Ephemera
Laws
Trials
Wills
Legal documents
Interview
Biography
Newspapers
Clippings
Media coverage
Books
Guides
Professional journals
Articles

Identifier

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Coverage

New York City
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Newport, Rhode Island
Boston
New Orleans
Atlanta
Portland, Oregon
Buffalo, New York
Washington D.C.
Northeast
Southeast
Deep South
Confederate States of America
Union (Civil War Era)
American colonies (colonial era)
New York
California

Website Item Type Metadata

Date Accessed

7/6/2016

Source Institution Type

Government

Geolocation