In honor of International Women’s Day and 1968: The Global Revolutions, an exhibition in our Rare Book and Manuscript Library, here are some recent full-text databases for researching women in 1968-1970. Independent Voices, a database of underground and alternative magazines and newspapers. Includes feminist, Black American, campus underground, GI Press, Latino, LGBT, Native American, and right-wing […]
Category: Women & Gender
Fashion Research
A few resources for researching fashion and the fashion industry: Encyclopedias Berg Fashion Library, includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Oxford, 2010) and many other books about fashion. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Scribner's 2005). Journals Vogue Archive-issues from 1892 to the present WWD (Women's Wear Daily) – current paper issues are in […]
HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository
Columbia is a member of the HathiTrust Digital Library, a vast repository of nearly 9 million volumes, 2.5 million of which are full-text searchable. Though international in scope, The HathiTrust collection is especially useful for magazines & journals published before 1924, US government documents, and multi-volume works. Login for the most complete search options, which […]
International Women’s Day Centenary
: A few of our databases for research on women and gender: Recent Scholarship Gender Studies Database LGBT Life Contemporary Women’s Issues Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index Historical Full Text Resources Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1543-1945 Everyday Life and Women in America, 1820-1900 Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 Letters […]
New Database: Jewish Life in America c1654-1954
Jewish Life in America c1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society provides full online access to 24 collections of personal papers, and partial access to the papers and archives of six organizations. Collections span 300 years, and are especially strong in material relating to Jewish life in New York. Included are letters, diaries, photographs […]
Ancestry Library
Researching a specific person, family, or town? Ancestry Library is a searchable database that includes census data through 1930, as well as records of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and military service. It also includes court, land, and probate records; prison records; voter lists; obituaries; passenger lists and other immigration data; as well as digitlized yearbooks, […]
New database: Medieval Family Life
Just added to the Columbia Libraries roster of medieval resources, Medieval Family Life contains scanned images of 15th- and 16th-century correspondence along with full transcriptions. The papers of the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armbrugh families are accompanied by additional resources such as concurrent historical and family chronologies, an interactive map, family trees, and many […]
Finding Articles 1900-1983
Looking for twentieth-century articles published before 1984? Try the Wilson Retrospective Indexes: Applied Science & Business Retrospective (1913-83) Art Retrospective (1929-84) Education Index Retrospective (1929-83) Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-84) Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-81) Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) They can be searched individually or together: […]
Frances Perkins Exhibition, through March 26, 2010
“Frances Perkins: The Woman behind the New Deal” is on display in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library through March 26th. Perkins was the first woman cabinet member, serving as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor from 1933-45. Columbia houses the most significant collection of Perkins’ papers outside of the National Archives. In addition to […]
The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta Jacobs
As we observe International Women’s Day, we should also acknowledge the contributions of Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929), the first Dutch woman physician, who assembled, with her husband Carl Gerritsen, the first great library collection related to the history of women. Although the scope of the Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History Online extends from the 16th to […]