Diaries & Documents
- Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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Over 102,000 pages of personal writings by American women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries drawn from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society. The manuscripts date from 1750 to 1950 and include letters and diary entries of ordinary women that document their daily lives, and those of more well-known women such as Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; Ellen Tucker Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who describes life in Concord during the Civil War; and Abby Kelley Foster, an abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights.
Newspapers - NYPL
The New York Public Library provides access to many historic, local, and international newspaper databases. You must go to an NYPL research library to access these databases.
- American Periodical Series OnlineCoverage through 1940 of American periodicals and newspapers that began publishing between 1740-1900.
- America's Historical NewspapersFull text of over 1,000 US newspapers published from 1690-1922
- ProQuest Historical DatabaseFull text of major US newspapers and journals, coverage varies by title but dates range from 1740-2004
Primary Sources
- Activist Women's Voices Oral History Project Special CollectionOral Histories of 30+ women activists, this collection is based at the GC library in digital form. The Activist Women's Voices Oral History Project and Archive was a project committed to documenting the voices of unheralded activist women in community-based organizations in New York City. The project was established in 1995 under the leadership of both Professor Joyce Gelb, then Director of the Women's Studies Program and Center for the Study of Women and Society, and Professor Patricia Laurence, Deputy Director. The project created links between activist women in the community and faculty researchers in the university.
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Over 102,000 pages of personal writings by American women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries drawn from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society. The manuscripts date from 1750 to 1950 and include letters and diary entries of ordinary women that document their daily lives, and those of more well-known women such as Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; Ellen Tucker Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who describes life in Concord during the Civil War; and Abby Kelley Foster, an abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights. - Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
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The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text items. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, teaching tools, and reference works. - Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window
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This digital archive includes 150,000 pages of conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century. It also includes photographs and videos of major events and activists in the history of women’s international social movements as well as scholarly essays exploring themes illuminated by materials in the archive.
Newspapers - Graduate Center
- Nexis Uni (previously LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni is a full-text news, business, and legal database with 17,000 sources from around the world, including local, regional, national, and international newspapers, scholarly journals, trade journals, and popular magazines, television and radio broadcasts, and newswires and blogs. Legal sources include federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. Also contains business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies. - New York State Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Now a part of Gale OneFile: News. Includes the following NY publications among thousands of others from around the world: New York magazine, New York Daily News, The New York Observer, New York Post, The New York Sun, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review New York Times Upfront, amNewYork, International New York Times, The Ticker, Our Town, WPIX-TV, Columbia Daily Spectator, Our Town Downtown, UN News Service, Washington Square News, and West Side Spirit. Use the Publication Search Tool to find specific titles. - New York Times Archive, 1851-2018 This link opens in a new window
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Actual page images from 1851 through 2018. Following years are added annually. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options: 1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image (retrieved with Adobe Acrobat Reader); 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. For current access, see New York Times Academic Pass.
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