Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. This website is intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. Women in America 1820-1842 Features essays by eighteen travelers through the United States in the early nineteenth century which touch on the lives and influence of women. Writings are grouped by topic or author.
Topics range from fashion to asylums to prisons.
Women in American History . This site is produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica and covers 1600 to the present. Women's Liberation Movement . Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group. World Book Encyclopedia WebLiner has a special feature archive.