Research Guides: Women's History: Women's History Research in Archives

Women's Archives in the United States

North East

Feminist Theory Archives

Pembroke Center, Brown University

General Federation of Women's Clubs

Margery Somers Foster Center

Rutgers, The Sate University of New Jersey

Schlesinger Library

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History and Manuscripts

Smith College

Riot Grrrl Collection

Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University

South East

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

Duke University

Midwest

Iowa Women's Archives

University of Iowa

Women and Leadership Archives

Loyola University

South West

The Archives for Research on Women and Gender Project
University of Texas San Antonio Special Collections

Nevada Women's Archives
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Nevada Women's Archives
University of Nevada, Reno

Oklahoma State Women's Archives
Special Collections and University Archives

Women's Archive and Research Center (WARC)
University of Houston Special Collections

Christian Women's Archives

Sisters of Providence Archives

Seattle, WA

Sisters of St. Joseph

Boston, MA

Daughters of Charity Provincial Archives

Emmitsburg, MD

Women of Color Archives

National Archives for Black Women's History

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

Washington, DC

Native American Women Playwrights Archive

Miami, University; Oxford, Ohio

Lesbian Archives

Lesbian Herstory Archives

New York

June Mazer Lesbian Archives

University of California, Los Angeles

Lavender Legacies

Guide to American Gay and Lesbian Archival Material

Jewish Women's Archives

Jewish Women's Virtual Archive

Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America

by Phyllis Holman Weisbard

Thanks

Thanks to Virginia Corvid of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who compiled this archives page.

Professional Women's Archives

Women, Enterprise and Society
Harvard Business School
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
Iowa State University
Archives for Women in Medicine
Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University
Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship
Burke Theological Library, Columbia University
History of Nursing Archive
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University

International Archives

Canadian Women's Movement Archives
CWMAUniversity of Ottowa Archives and Special Collections
Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow, Scotland