Resources to explore every aspect of women’s history, over time and around the world

Every branch of history is also the history of women, but the roles and perspectives of women are frequently overlooked. Only ProQuest’s women’s history databases span the experiences, influences and observations of women over time and around the world for comprehensive interdisciplinary research and learning. Collections include organizational documents, domestic records, personal correspondence, books, videos, historical periodicals, newspapers, dissertations as well as literature and fashion publications.

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The Rivalry That Shaped the Birth Control Movement

The Rivalry That Shaped the Birth Control Movement

Explore primary sources that reveal the rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. How much power should the medical establishment have over reproductive decision-making?

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ProQuest Launches Open-Access Suffrage Collection

ProQuest Launches Open-Access Suffrage Collection

A new database shows that black women activists were central to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The collection offers 3,700 biographical sketches – 3,500 not previously published – based on primary sources.

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Alexander Street Women’s History Collections

Alexander Street Women’s History Collections

These resources include unique content about history’s most notable women, such as Elisabeth Freeman, Minerva Bernardino, Jeanne Cordova and many others, as well as the movements they influenced.

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Women's History Collections

Eighteenth-Century Parliamentary Papers

Eighteenth-Century Parliamentary Papers

Primary Sources, Academic, Community College, History & Social Change, Political Science, Social Sciences, U.K. History, Women's History
GenderWatch®

GenderWatch®

Databases, Academic, Community College, Gender Studies, History & Social Change, Social Sciences, Women's History
History Ebook Subscription

History Ebook Subscription

Books, Academic, Community College, Black History, Cultural History, Early Modern History, Gender Studies, Genealogy, Global Studies, History & Social Change, Indigenous Peoples, Military & Diplomatic History, Political Science, Social Sciences, U.K. History, U.S. History, Women's History, Librarian
House of Lords Parliamentary Papers

House of Lords Parliamentary Papers

Primary Sources, Academic, Community College, Government, History & Social Change, Political Science, Social Sciences, U.K. History, Women's History
Nineteenth-Century Parliamentary Papers

Nineteenth-Century Parliamentary Papers

Primary Sources, Academic, Community College, History & Social Change, Political Science, Social Sciences, U.K. History, Women's History
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™

ProQuest Historical Newspapers™

News and Newspapers, Academic, Community College, Corporate, Government, K-12, Public, Black History, Education, Gender Studies, Genealogy, Global Studies, History & Social Change, Indigenous Peoples, Interdisciplinary, Military & Diplomatic History, Political Science, Social Sciences, Social Sciences, U.K. History, U.S. History, Women's History, Librarian
ProQuest History Vault™

ProQuest History Vault™

Primary Sources, Academic, Community College, Government, Black History, Gender Studies, History & Social Change, Indigenous Peoples, Military & Diplomatic History, Social Sciences, U.S. History, Women's History, Librarian
Queen Victoria’s Journals

Queen Victoria’s Journals

Primary Sources, Academic, Community College, History & Social Change, U.K. History, Women's History
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