WGSS 4350 / HIST 4301 - Issues in Feminist Research
Find and access sources for your capstone project.
UH Digital Collections
The UH Libraries Digital Collections website contains digital primary source materials.
Selected Digital Collections from UH Women's Archives and LGBT Collections
The links below lead to specific collections from the UH Libraries Digital Collections website selected for your class by Special Collections librarians and archivists.
Primary Sources in Databases
In addition to searching the digital archival materials from UH Special Collections, you can also find primary sources from other institutions by searching databases publicly available or accessible through UH Libraries. Use the links below to explore these databases.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsFind digital and digitized materials held by the Library of Congress.
- National ArchivesFind archives from all regions of the U.S. held by the federal government.
- TARO: Texas Archival Resources OnlineThis database contains finding aids for archival collections from institutions across the state of Texas. Note that some finding aids may have links to digital or digitized archival materials, but others may not.
- Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1 This link opens in a new windowThis is a digital collection of historical materials pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture in the United States from colonial times until 1960.
- Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, series 2 This link opens in a new windowThis collection focuses on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. Rare and relevant personal and organizational collections, books, and newspapers--including rare anarchist newspapers--are presented in their original form.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center includes HistoryMakers interviews with contemporary African Americans, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender covering 1910-1975, ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies from 1970-2004, and Black Literature Index covering 1827-1940. Note that not all materials in this database are historical, primary sources.
- HeritageQuest Online This link opens in a new windowThis database includes these collections: U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790 through 1930, over 28,000 genealogy and local history books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Records, Freedman’s Bank Records and LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowThis database includes digitized letters and diaries of women in North America, spanning more than 300 years.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowThis database includes sources by and about women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
- OutHistoryContains digitized primary sources pertaining to LGBTQ+ historical figures.