History Librarian
Primary Source Databases
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new windowSearchable primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes newspapers, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, and posters.
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowNotable collections include materials on historical responses to the AIDS crisis, social activism among gays and lesbians, and more.
- Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 This link opens in a new windowDocument collection on women, family and home life in the South and the North U.S.
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543-1945 This link opens in a new windowGerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The broad scope allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.
- Independent VoicesAlternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowIndexes the popular and scholarly literature addressing issues related to the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community.
- LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, interviews, archival footage and some feature films exploring LGBT history and culture, civil rights and political movements.
- Politics, Social Activism, and Community Support: Selected Gay & Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters This link opens in a new windowCollection of more than 200 newsletters and periodicals issued by gay and lesbian activist organizations between 1947-2004.
- Sex & SexualitySex and Sexuality contains primary sources from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections. Other major collections include: Kinsey Institute Annual Reports, the Alice Field Collection, the Harry Benjamin Collection, the James W. Edwards Collection, John Money Exchange Correspondence, and records of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS).
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 This link opens in a new windowDocuments the 1960s through primary source materials such as diaries, letters, oral histories, and memorabilia.
- Women's Magazine Archive (1846-2005) This link opens in a new windowSearchable archive comprising the full backfiles of 13 leading women’s interest consumer magazines.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowPrimary documents, introductory essays, and a definitive bibliography on the involvement of women in social movements.
- Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowCollection of magazines dating from 1940 to the present highlighting topics and trends of youth and popular culture.
Bentley Historical Library
- Bentley Historical LibraryInfo on consultations and using physical materials is here: https://bentley.umich.edu/research/