This searchable collection provides online access to rare, out-of-print texts from a wide range of women authors.

A database from Duke University, includes images of more than seven thousand advertisements published in U.S. and Canadian magazines between 1911 and 1955. The five main subject areas are radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene, and World War II.

This collection presents over 3,300 items relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture. Search for relevant topics like "women", "cookbooks", etc.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful antislavery novel moved more readers than any abolitionist sermon. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.

HEARTH (Cornell University) is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available.

The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. JWA explores the past as a framework for understanding the issues important to women today; inspires young people with remarkable role models; and uses Jewish women’s stories to excite people to see themselves as agents of change.

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in Duke's Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression from Harvard University.