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Listed below are links to electronic resources that explore and provide additional information on the Manuscript Division's and the Library of Congress's women's history collections, including relevant online exhibitions, more research guides in the American Women series, and related event videos.
Tells the story of the seventy-two-year campaign for women’s suffrage. Considered the largest reform movement in American history, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to achieving women’s economic, social, and political equality. For years, determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, picketed, and faced imprisonment. Their collective story is one of courage, perseverance, savvy, creativity, and hope that continues to inspire activists today.
Showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa Parks and documents her life and activism—creating a rich opportunity for viewers to discover new dimensions to their understanding of this seminal figure. The materials are drawn extensively from the Rosa Parks Collection, a gift to the Library of Congress from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Documents Mead’s life, her career as an anthropologist, and the critical reception of her work by drawing upon the 500,000–item Mead Collection, one of the Library’s largest collections for a single individual.
Features women journalists who were chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library. Like their male counterparts, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments.
Explores how this famous couple shaped America’s culture in the twentieth century. Charles and Ray Eames’s work represented defining moments in American history, such as the economy’s shift from making goods to producing information.
The Library's unique and diverse collections are rich with resources for the study of women's history. This research guide gathers together a collection of topical guides and essays that tell the stories of women in America.
Part of the American Women series, these essays provide a more in-depth exploration of particular events of significance in women's history, including the 1913 woman suffrage parade, the campaign for the equal rights amendment, and more.
Part of the American Women Series, this research guide highlights ethnographic materials at the Library of Congress related to women's history in the United States.
The General Collections of the Library of Congress constitute most of the books and bound periodicals published since 1800. Part of the American Women series, this research guide highlights primary and secondary sources about American women's history.
Part of the American Women Series, this research guide highlights cartographic materials at the Library of Congress related to women's history in the United States.
Part of the American Women Series, this research guide provides access to digital collections and related resources regarding the legal rights of women in the United States.
Part of the American Women series, this guide focuses on resources on and about women from the Moving Image Section of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Part of the American Women Series, this guide highlights collections and resources in the Music Division that document the lives and work of significant women in music, theater, and dance.
Part of the American Women series, this guide highlights collections and tips for finding images relating to American women's history in the Library of Congress' pictorial collections of photographs, prints, drawings, and architectural documentation.
Part of the American Women series, this guide highlights the rare book holdings related to U.S. women's history, demonstrates the richness and variety of these resources, and points out some of the division's contemporary holdings and unique treasures.
Part of the American Women series, this guide highlights the Library’s audio collections related to U.S. women's history and demonstrates the richness and variety of these resources in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Part of the American Women series, this guide highlights the Library's collections of current and retrospective newspapers, current periodicals, government publications, and several special holdings of a serial nature, such as comic books.
Many lectures, readings, symposia, and other events related to the Manuscript Division's collections are made available as video files through the Library of Congress Web site. These events, held virtually and in person at the Library of Congress, provide opportunities to see and hear discussions by Library of Congress staff and visiting speakers on topics that often intersect with the history and culture of American women. Some examples of these event recordings, listed chronologically, are as follows: