Use this guide to assist you with completing your assignments for HIST 3615W: Gender, Work, and Livelihood: Women in European History: 1500 to the Present
Primary Source Databases and Collections
- AM Primary Sources for Teaching and ResearchAM (formerly Adam Matthew) publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world. Collections span the social sciences and humanities and cover a multitude of topics ranging from Medieval family life and Victorian medicine to 1960s pop culture and global politics.
- Defining GenderProvides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.
- EuroDocs: Women's Roles and Rights in EuropeOnline primary source documents related to women, women's roles, women's rights in Europe
- Gender: Identity and Social ChangeFind primary sources about gender history, from the 19th to 21st centuries. Primary sources include correspondence, newsletters, periodicals, organizational records, and diaries. Themes include sexuality, women's and men's movements, suffrage, the body, employment, education, family and domestic life, education and employment.
- German History in Documents and Images/Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und BildernPrimary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts with new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineSearch books from the Enlightenment period in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800 with over 180,000 English-language titles and editions printed in the United Kingdom and the Americas. It includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
- Electronic EnlightenmentEdited correspondence among the greatest thinkers and writers of early 17th to mid-19th century in Europe, the Americas, and Asia with their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
- Internet Women's History SourcebookProvides links to online collections of women's history texts.
- Making of the Modern WorldUse this source to find primary sources and full text books from the 1460-1850 period with focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineSearch primary source collections of the nineteenth century (1800s) with books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Topics include British politics, theater and music; European literature, Asian exploration, photography, and more.
- Women in the National ArchivesProvides primary sources on women's suffrage in the UK, from 1903-1928, and its colonies, 1930-1962. Primary sources include Parliamentary debates and reports, prison conditions, police surveillance, profiles on individual suffragettes.
- All Primary Source DatabasesList of all primary source databases available to University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff.
Finding Primary Sources in the Library Catalog
Additional primary source materials can be found by searching the University of Minnesota Libraries' Catalog. Enter one of the terms below and keywords of the event as subject keywords.
- "personal narratives"
- "sources"
- "documentary film"
- "interviews"
- "correspondence"
Below are some examples.
The Exploited: Women and Work by
Call Number: TC Wilson Library General Collection HD6135 E94 1993ISBN: 9780415101646Publication Date: 1993Some of the key primary source texts central to the history of British feminism are now being made available in the six volumes of Sources of British Feminism.Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415684385Publication Date: 2014Includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain and Russia, organized in a broad chronological spread, the diversity of the sources included in the book is unique - including many never translated into English before. Also available in print: TC Wilson Library General Collection HQ1587.S57 2014Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 by
ISBN: 9780252008559Publication Date: 1981-08-01This title presents sixty documents which focuses on these and other socioeconomic struggles by women and their impact on the French Revolutionary era.
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